Saudi border guards foil 19 kg hashish smuggling in Asir's Al-Raboah
Saudi Border Guard land patrols in the Al-Raboah sector of Asir region foiled an attempt to smuggle 19 kilograms of hashish and 109,000 tablets under medical-trade controls, the directorate said on 12 November 2026. It said initial legal procedures had been completed and the seizures handed to the competent authority, without naming any suspect or giving an arrest figure.
Saudi Border Guard land patrols in the Al-Raboah sector of Asir region foiled an
attempt to smuggle 109,000 tablets under medical-trade controls and 19 kilograms
of hashish.[1]The Border Guard announced the case in a statement on its
official account on the X platform.[2]
The operation was part of the Border Guard’s efforts against the smuggling of
drugs and contraband.[1]The 109,000 tablets are medicines under medical-trade
regulation, not cannabis.[1]The Border Guard said it had completed the
initial legal procedures and handed the seizures to the competent authority.[1]
Security agencies asked citizens and residents to report information about drug
smuggling or promotion through the 911 number in Mecca, Medina, Riyadh and the
Eastern Province, 999 elsewhere in the kingdom, the Border Guard’s 994 line, and
the anti-narcotics directorate’s 995 line and email address, saying all reports
are handled in strict confidence and the informant bears no liability.[1]
Photos and video
Packages of seized drugs laid out for the Saudi Border Guard's announcement of the 19 kilograms of hashish and 109,000 tablets intercepted in the Al-Raboah sector of Asir region. Photo: Saudi Border Guard, via SrahaPhoto details
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Both reports are dated 12 November 2026, the day the Border Guard published its announcement, and neither gives a separate date for the interception itself.
No suspect was named or described, and the reports give no arrest figure, nationality, charge or court outcome.
No figure for the value of the 19 kilograms of hashish was published.
The 109,000 tablets under medical-trade controls are not cannabis and are excluded from the figures.
Both accounts carry the Border Guard's announcement, so the report rests on the agency's wording as published by the two outlets.
Saudi Border Guard land patrols in the Al-Ardah sector of Jazan region foiled an attempt to smuggle 46 kilograms of hashish, the directorate announced on 11 November 2026. It said initial legal procedures had been completed and the seized drugs handed over to the competent authority, without naming any suspect or giving an arrest figure.
Saudi Arabia's General Directorate of Border Guard said it foiled attempts to smuggle 76 kg of hashish and arrested those it called the smugglers, without saying how many. The same announcement reported 366,280 amphetamine tablets and 163,750 tablets under medical-trade controls, none of which is counted as cannabis.
Saudi Arabia's customs posts recorded 1,205 seizures of prohibited goods at land, sea and air crossings in one week, including 36 types of narcotics such as hashish, cocaine and Captagon. The Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority gave no cannabis quantity, arrest count or breakdown of the individual cases.
Saudi Border Guard land patrols in the Dhahran al-Janub sector of Asir region stopped an attempt to smuggle 11 kg of hashish along with 14,800 tablets under medical-trade controls and 2,950 amphetamine tablets. Another operation announced the same day led to the arrest of four violators of the border security law over 80 kg of khat in Asir.
