Man, 39, sentenced in Caen over 2 kg of cannabis and €4,140 found at his home
The Caen judicial court convicted a 39-year-old Bretteville-sur-Laize man of drug trafficking and tobacco smuggling on 4 November 2026, four days after gendarmes searched his home. Officers found more than two kilos of cannabis resin and herb and €4,140 in cash.
A 39-year-old man from Bretteville-sur-Laize, in the Calvados department of
Normandy, was convicted by the Caen judicial court on Wednesday 4 November 2026
of drug trafficking and tobacco smuggling.[1]Gendarmes of the Moult brigade
community searched his home in Bretteville-sur-Laize on 31 October 2026.[1]
Officers found more than two kilos of cannabis resin and cannabis herb at the
house.[1]The search also turned up €4,140 in cash.[1]The sentencing
hearing at the Caen judicial court, the Calvados court of first instance,
followed the search by four days.[1]
The man, judged under a plea agreement procedure (comparution sur reconnaissance préalable de culpabilité), was given one year in prison, six months of it suspended, a two-year suspended term with probation and obligations of care and work, and a €4,000 fine.[2]
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Photo published with the account of the 31 October 2026 search at a Bretteville-sur-Laize home by gendarmes of the Moult brigade community. Photo: Stéphane MessagerPhoto details
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Only the first two paragraphs of the article were readable; the sentence the Caen court imposed, any fine or confiscation order, and the tobacco quantities behind the smuggling charge were not published in the accessible text.
The article gives no separate date for the arrest or custody; 31 October 2026 is the date stated for the search and 4 November 2026 for the conviction.
The cannabis weight is given only as "more than two kilos" of resin and herb together, with no split between the two products.
The caption credits the photo to Stéphane Messager but does not say whether it shows the seized cannabis, the search or the gendarmes at the house.
The article gives no details of the September 2026 investigation that preceded the search, and the tobacco quantities behind the smuggling charge remain unpublished.
How the six-month firm term and the suspended probationary term combine into a total enforceable sentence is not spelled out in the accessible text.
A 28-year-old driver tested positive for cannabis after rear-ending a car and injuring its driver at Percy-en-Normandie on 2 January 2026. The Coutances court sentenced him on 10 November 2026 to six months suspended imprisonment and cancelled his driving licence.
The criminal court in Troyes sentenced 47-year-old Ramzi Nefzaoui to 14 months in firm prison for drug trafficking and issued an arrest warrant. The case began when gendarmes stopped his Renault Laguna at Barberey-Saint-Sulpice in December 2025 and found cannabis resin, herb, cash and a scale.
The Fontainebleau criminal court sentenced a driver to five years in prison, including two years firm, over a fatal 2021 crash at Souppes-sur-Loing in which his 20-year-old passenger died. The court heard he had drunk alcohol and smoked cannabis and was driving at 135 km/h in a 30 km/h zone.
Anti-crime police in Passamaïnty, Mayotte, broke up a drug deal on 4 November 2026 and seized 3.334 kg of cannabis and 8,495 euros in cash from a suspected stash flat; three people were arrested. Two young men were tried in Mamoudzou on 9 November and sentenced to 30 months with 12 suspended and a 15-month suspended term.