Driver stopped in Charente had 3 kg of cannabis and five plants at home
Gendarmes stopped a driver at a roadside check in Châteauneuf-sur-Charente on 23 September 2026; his drug test was positive, and a search of his home found about 3 kg of cannabis, five plants and an indoor grow room. He admitted the facts and faces trial in the criminal court in early 2027, with his car immobilised and his licence suspended.
Gendarmes from Brossac and Châteauneuf-sur-Charente stopped a driver at a
coordinated roadside check in Châteauneuf-sur-Charente, in the Charente
department, on 23 September 2026.[1]His drug test came back positive.[1]The officers then searched his home, where they found about 3 kg of cannabis,
five plants and an indoor grow room with equipment for producing the drug.[2]His car was immobilised and his driving licence suspended.[2]
The gendarmes described the case in a Facebook post, which Actu Charente
relayed.[3]He is due before the tribunal correctionnel — the criminal court
that handles mid-level offences — in early 2027.[3]Actu Charente wrote that
the quantity, the plants and the grow room moved the case beyond simple
possession and use, already an offence, towards drug trafficking or unlawful
production.[1]The outlet reported that the maximum for those offences is 10
years in prison and a €7.5 million fine.[1]Driving under the influence
carries up to two years in prison and a €4,500 fine.[1]
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Screenshot of the Charente gendarmerie's Facebook post about the search, showing the indoor drug laboratory officers found at the driver's home, published by Actu Charente. Photo: Gendarmerie de la CharentePhoto details
The reports do not name the commune where the driver's home was searched; only Châteauneuf-sur-Charente, where the roadside check took place, is named.
The reports give no separate date for the search, which is described as following the 23 September 2026 check.
No figure for the value of the cannabis was published.
No court outcome has been reported; the trial is listed for early 2027.
Only Seven Radio says the driver was placed in garde à vue; the gendarmerie's account as relayed by Actu Charente and La Nouvelle République describes the stop and his admissions without mentioning custody.
The gendarmerie's original Facebook post could not be opened; its account is known through the outlets that relayed it.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Seven Radio: Seven Radio, a local outlet, reported that he was placed in garde à vue — French police custody — and admitted the facts during questioning.
Customs officers seized 40 kg of cannabis products from a Spanish UPS truck at the Fontaine toll on the A36 on 9 November 2026. Two Spain-based delivery drivers, aged 36 and 46, were detained after admitting they acted as “mules” for a load collected in Madrid.
Police seized about 100 kilos of drugs, mainly cannabis with some cocaine, from a nourrice stash flat supplying deal points in Vénissieux's Joliot-Curie sector. The reports give only a combined weight, so no cannabis-only quantity can be recorded.
Six people were taken into custody after searches across Corrèze and Saône-et-Loire linked to the Kannathera CBD chain; police seized 444.1 kg of cannabis, 190.2 kg of it resin. The Brive prosecutor's office said four suspects were placed under judicial supervision pending trial and two others were summoned to court.
On 3 November 2026 a Paris court ended a mother's social-housing lease after several kilos of cannabis and cash were found in her son's bedroom, put at 6.5 kg. The court accepted she paid rent, had no neighbour complaints and knew nothing of her son's activity.
