Zagazig court jails Bilbeis broker 10 years for hashish and an automatic rifle
Zagazig Criminal Court's second appeals circuit jailed a 40-year-old broker from Bilbeis for 10 years and fined him 50,000 Egyptian pounds. He was convicted of holding hashish for sale and an unlicensed automatic rifle and ammunition, and the case dated to a December 2025 arrest in his car with 20 pieces of hashish.
The second appeals circuit of Zagazig Criminal Court jailed a broker for 10
years and fined him 50,000 Egyptian pounds for possessing hashish for sale and
for holding an automatic rifle and ammunition without a licence.[1][2][3][4]The man
was 40 years old, worked as a broker (simsar, a middleman who finds buyers) and
lived in Bilbeis markaz.[5][2]The panel was headed by Counsellor Sami Abdel
Halim Ghoneim, with Counsellors Ahmed Sweilem Mohamed, Hazem Bashir Ahmed and
Osama Mohamed Abdel Hadi as members.[1][2]
The case was filed as No. 27703 of 2025, Bilbeis markaz felony, registered as
No. 5117 of 2025 at South Zagazig, and the arrest dated to December 2025.[5][4]Officers stopped his car on the public road and found a mobile phone and cash on
him.[5][3]A bag on the driver’s seat held 20 pieces of hashish, and under the
seat was a rapid-fire automatic rifle loaded with 10 rounds of the same calibre.[5][3][4]Police said he admitted holding the hashish for sale, that the money was
sale proceeds and that the rifle and ammunition were to defend the trade.[5]
The chemical laboratory report found the material was hashish classed near
schedule 1 of the narcotics law, and the forensic report found the rifle and
rounds serviceable.[1][4]The arrest followed testimony from the head of the
Sharqia Security Directorate’s drug unit, and the Public Prosecution referred
the man to the criminal court in custody.[1]
The Al-Ahram account describes the rifle’s ammunition as 10 rounds hidden with the rapid-fire automatic rifle under the driver’s seat.[6]A chemical laboratory report classed the seized material near schedule 1 of the narcotics law.[6]
The Bilbeis felony case is No. 27703 of 2026, registered as No. 5117 of 2025 at South Zagazig.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Sentenced
1
Prison
10 years
Fine
EGP 50,000
Agencies
Egyptian criminal court (Zagazig Criminal Court, second appeals circuit); Sharqia Security Directorate drug unit; Public Prosecution
Agency type
Court, Police, Prosecutor
Cannabis
Hashish (20 plants)
Activity
Possession, Sale
Setting
Vehicle
Charges
possessing hashish for sale; possessing an automatic rifle and ammunition without a licence
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No weight was published for the 20 pieces of hashish, so no cannabis weight is recorded.
No separate hearing date is given; 9 November 2026 is the publication date of both accounts and is used as the sentencing date for the ruling reported as delivered in the session that day.
Only the initial letters of the man's name are published, and the 50,000-pound fine is the only sum stated.
The accounts do not give the exact day of the December 2025 arrest, only the month.
No appeal or challenge to the ruling was reported, so the sentence is recorded as given at first instance by the appeals circuit.
The Al-Ahram account gives no weight for the 20 pieces of hashish.
Al-Masry Al-Youm gives the case as No. 27703 of 2025, while Al-Youm Al-Sabea gives 27703 of 2026 for the Bilbeis felony and 5117 of 2025 for the South Zagazig registration.
Al-Aosboa gives no date for the 2025 arrest, weight for the 20 pieces of hashish, or appeal against the ruling.
Al-Watan names the presiding judge as Counsellor Sami Abdel Halim Ghoneim with members Ahmed Sweilem Mohamed, Hazem Bashir Ahmed and Osama Mohamed Abdel Hadi; the earlier report's other Arabic accounts also give these names, but only the man's initial letters are published.
Al-Watan gives no weight for the 20 pieces of hashish.
The Alexandria Criminal Court sentenced a worker to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment and a EGP 50,000 fine for hashish trafficking. Officers had arrested him in First Ameriya with 400 hashish slabs weighing about 18 kilograms.
The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced a housewife and an unemployed man to 10 years of aggravated imprisonment for possessing hashish and unlicensed weapons with intent to traffic in Helwan. Police arrested the pair after finding 70 grams of hashish, a shotgun, ammunition, a bladed weapon and cash.
Cairo Criminal Court acquitted a 38-year-old man at the retrial of proceedings against his in-absentia sentence of 15 years' aggravated imprisonment and a 50,000-pound fine over eight pieces of hashish weighing 164 grams found in frozen meat at Cairo airport. Investigators said he hid the drugs in his neighbour's bag without her knowledge to smuggle them to an Arab country.
The Ninth Circuit of the Asyut Criminal Court sentenced three defendants from Dronka village to six years of rigorous imprisonment each for forming and running a narcotics trafficking gang. In January 2026 arrests in Dronka, police seized 21 pieces of hashish weighing 19.30 grams from one defendant's home alongside methamphetamine, heroin and tramadol held across the group.