Woman arrested in Benghazi with 20 kg hashish, 800 pills
Benghazi anti-narcotics officers arrested a woman in Al-Laithi accused of helping her husband fetch and store drugs, seizing about 20 kg of hashish in 200 slabs and 800 Rouj pills. The branch said it acted on an arrest order after source information and investigation, and notified the Public Prosecution.
🇱🇾 Al-Laithi, Benghazi · Libya
Arrested
1
Cannabis
20 kg
Officers of the Benghazi branch of Libya’s General Department for Combating
Drugs and Psychotropic Substancesarrested a woman living in Al-Laithi in
Benghazi.[1]The suspect was identified only by the initials G. H. A.[2]The
branch said she was suspected of helping her husband to bring in narcotic
substances and to store them.[3]The operation followed source information set
out in an evidence-collection report and corroborated by investigations.[1]Officers carried it out under an order to arrest and bring her in.[3]
The search found 200 large pieces of hashish, known among dealers as
passportats, with a total estimated weight of about 20 kilograms.[1]Officers
also found 800 narcotic pills of a type called Rouj alongside the hashish.[2]The cannabis quantity recorded for this event is the 20 kilograms of hashish.[3]
The branch presented the arrest as a later step in a case that had earlier
involved resistance to its members and injury to one of them.[2]It said it
completed the required legal procedures and notified the Public Prosecution to
continue investigations and take the measures prescribed by law.[1]
No separate date for the arrest was published; 14 October 2026 is the first publication date in the opened sources and is used as the incident date.
The reported hashish weight is an estimate of about 20 kilograms, not a laboratory weight.
The 800 Rouj pills are a separate non-cannabis component and are excluded from the cannabis figure under the tracker's substance scope.
The suspect was identified only by the initials G. H. A.; no full name, age or nationality was published.
No charge, court date or sentence was reported; the branch said only that it notified the Public Prosecution and investigations continue.
The husband's whereabouts and whether he was arrested were not reported.
Details of the earlier related case were not given beyond resistance to branch members and injury to one of them.
All accounts rest on the anti-narcotics branch's statement; no independent reporting was found.
No media entry is included: Alwasat published agency-credited photos of the seizure but no absolute direct image address could be recovered from the text readout, and the submitted page's image is not confirmed by caption or credit to show this seizure.
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