Driver held in Indre after crash and flight on foot, accused of driving under cannabis
Gendarmes arrested a driver at Bouges-le-Château, in the Indre department, on 5 November 2026 after he crashed his car, refused to stop and tried to flee on foot. They accused him of driving under cannabis alongside rebellion, driving with a suspended licence and several traffic offences.
Gendarmes from the motorised platoon in Châteauroux arrested a driver at
Bouges-le-Château in the Indre department on Thursday 5 November 2026, after he
refused to stop.[1]The driver had crashed his vehicle and then tried to flee
on foot.[1]A gendarmerie patrol sent to seal off the area arrested him about
ten minutes later.[1]The gendarmes placed him in garde à vue, French police
custody.[1]
The gendarmes said he was accused of rebellion, driving while his licence was
suspended, driving under cannabis, driving without insurance, failing to stop at
stop signs, excessive speed and having no valid vehicle inspection.[1]
The arrest was one result of road checks the Indre gendarmerie ran from Monday 2
to Sunday 8 November 2026, which included a driver caught at 146 km/h on a
departmental road limited to 80 km/h near Écueillé.[1]Officers also recorded
seven cases of driving without insurance in the department, and stopped one man
who tested positive for cocaine, had no vehicle inspection and was driving with
a suspended licence.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Agency
peloton motorisé de Châteauroux
Activity
Use
Setting
Vehicle
Charges
rébellion; conduite malgré suspension du permis de conduire; conduite sous cannabis; défaut d'assurance; inobservation de l'arrêt aux panneaux stop; vitesse excessive; défaut de contrôle technique
The driver was accused of 'conduite sous cannabis' but no test result, substance quantity or laboratory analysis was published.
No charge, court date, plea or outcome beyond the garde à vue was reported, and the article does not say how the custody ended.
The roundup also reports a driver stopped at 146 km/h near Écueillé, seven uninsured drivers and a driver positive for cocaine; those are separate offences in the same checks and are not counted as cannabis figures here.
Only one source about this event was found, so no second account confirms the details.
Anti-crime squad officers arrested three men selling cocaine and cannabis resin from Marseille streets on Sunday 8 November 2026, two in the 11th arrondissement and one in the 15th. Two officers were injured overpowering the third man, and all three were taken into police custody.
A 24-year-old man was arrested in Montpellier's Saint-Martin neighbourhood on 8 November 2026 after offering to sell cannabis to an undercover anti-crime (BAC) officer, and three officers were needed to detain him when he bit one of them. Officers found 21 g of cannabis, a small amount of cocaine and cash nearby, and he is due in court on 10 November.
Police in Le Mans stopped a 22-year-old riding an electric scooter at high speed on the pavement on 8 November 2026 after he refused to stop, then found a substance that appeared to be cannabis resin on him. He was held in custody and is to be summoned in June 2027 under a fixed-penalty court order providing for 70 hours of unpaid work.
Police in Draguignan arrested one adult and two minors after finding nearly 2.5 kg of cannabis resin disguised as Dubai chocolate bars in their car. One of the three, who was to deliver the drugs, was referred to the prosecutor and placed under judicial supervision pending trial.
