Cairo detectives arrested 13 alleged drug traders in districts across the capital before the drugs could be passed to users.[1] The Cairo security directorate described the action as an expanded security campaign against traders in narcotic substances and pills.[2] Those confronted admitted possessing the seized drugs to trade and keeping firearms and bladed weapons to defend their activity, and police said legal procedures were taken.[2]
In al-Zawiya al-Hamra, officers seized 10 kg of hashish with one man, along with a pump-action shotgun and two cartridges.[2] In al-Sharabiya, officers seized 1 kg of hashish with one man, along with a bladed weapon described as a matwa.[2] In al-Shorouk, officers seized 1 kg of hashish with two men, while another man was held with an unspecified quantity of hashish and heroin.[2] In al-Matariya, officers seized 1 kg of hashish with one man, and in al-Zawiya al-Hamra they seized 1.2 kg of hashish with another man.[2] In Nasr City Third, officers seized 4 kg of hydro with one man, alongside ice, a bladed weapon and a precision scale.[2] In al-Maadi, officers seized 1 kg of hashish with two men.[2] The separately stated cannabis seizures total 19.2 kg of hashish and hydro.[1]
The same sweep also produced non-cannabis seizures that are not counted here, including 2 kg of ice in Dar al-Salam, other ice quantities, firearms, bladed weapons and 12,030 Parkinol pills.[2] The headline total of 25 kg covers all drugs together, so it is not recorded as cannabis, and voodoo is excluded as a synthetic cannabinoid.[2]