The Cairo Criminal Court sitting at the Abbasiya courts complex sentenced a 29-year-old contractor to five years in prison and a 50,000-pound fine for trafficking hashish and possessing an unlicensed bladed weapon in the Nozha police district.[1] The referral order identified the defendant as Abdel Rahman E., aged 29, a contractor, who possessed hashish for trafficking on 20 March 2026 in the Nozha district of Cairo outside the cases legally permitted.[1] Prosecutors also charged him with possessing a metal-blade white weapon without a licence.[1]
An officer of the airport roads and axes security department testified that he stopped the defendant at a security checkpoint while he was driving a car, found through a records check that he was wanted for enforcement in another case, then detained and searched him precautionarily.[1] The search found pieces of hashish, a white weapon with drug traces on its blade, money, four mobile phones and a smart wristwatch in his possession.[1] The officer attributed trafficking intent to the drug possession, treating the money as proceeds, the phones as a means of contacting users, the weapon as defence and protection for the trade, and the car as a means of promoting the drugs.[1]
The central chemical laboratories report confirmed the seized material was schedule-one hashish weighing 396.97 grams.[1] The report also established that the seized cutter blade bore traces of a brown substance proved to be schedule-one hashish.[1]
