Caen-Ifs: eight months for 80.6 g of cannabis resin brought by a visitor
Staff at Caen-Ifs prison found 80.6 g of cannabis resin and a mobile phone in a package a detainee received from his father at a visiting room on 30 August 2025. The Caen criminal court sentenced him to eight months in prison on 19 January 2026; he was still in custody and already had convictions for tobacco and drug trafficking.
🇫🇷 Centre pénitentiaire de Caen-Ifs, Calvados · France
- Cannabis
- 0.1 kg
- Prison
- 8 months
On 30 August 2025, at the Caen-Ifs penal centre in Calvados, prison staff found
80.6 g of cannabis resin and a mobile phone in a package that had just been handed
to a detainee by his father during a visiting-room meeting.[1]
The man was already convicted of tobacco and drug trafficking offences.[1] He
remained in custody when the Caen criminal court sentenced him on Monday 19 January
2026 to eight months in prison for arranging the delivery.[1]
Sources
- Un détenu condamné pour s’être fait livrer 80 g de cannabis par son père. Ouest-France, 20 January 2026. In French.
Open questions the AI reported
- No second outlet account of the same case could be found and opened.
- The article does not name the defendant or say whether his father was prosecuted.
- The lead illustration is an archive photograph, not of this seizure, so no media is listed.
- The published piece cuts off before the full account of what the detainee told the court.