Derval: three years two months for an 8 kg cannabis run to Brittany
Gendarmes stopped a 43-year-old man near Derval around midnight on 2 August 2026 after he fled a traffic check; his car held more than 8 kg of cannabis plus other drugs he was carrying from Nantes toward Dol-de-Bretagne. The Nantes criminal court on 13 October 2026 jailed him for three years and two months, including four months from a revoked probation order.
🇫🇷 Derval, Loire-Atlantique · France
- Arrested
- 1
- Cannabis
- 8 kg
- Prison
- 3 years 2 months
Around midnight on Sunday 2 August 2026, gendarmes on the RN 137 at Derval in
Loire-Atlantique spotted an uninsured Opel Astra with an expired roadworthiness test.[1]
When they tried to stop it, the 43-year-old driver sped off and was blocked five minutes later
as he entered an expressway slip road the wrong way.[1]
In a rucksack in the boot they found more than 8 kg of cannabis, along with 470 g of
ketamine, 103 g of cocaine and four sachets of ecstasy.[2][1] He had picked up the load in
Nantes that evening for a run to Dol-de-Bretagne in Brittany and expected 1,000 euros, after an
earlier delivery in late July.[2] He was driving without a valid licence.[2]
The Nantes criminal court sentenced him on Tuesday 13 October 2026 to three years and two
months in prison, including four months from a probation order revoked by the Saint-Malo court on
6 March 2026.[2][1] Ouest-France reports the same term as 38 months.[1]
Sources
- « Seule la prison vous arrête » : il avait tenté de semer les gendarmes avec trois types de stupéfiants dans le coffre. Ouest-France, 14 October 2026. In French.
- Cannabis, kétamine, cocaïne… Un père de famille interpellé à Derval condamné pour avoir transporté de la drogue. actu.fr, 25 October 2026. In French.
Open questions the AI reported
- The vehicle also held 470 g of ketamine, 103 g of cocaine and four ecstasy sachets, and a search at his mother's home in Côtes-d'Armor found further cannabis and heroin; those amounts are mentioned in the reports but not broken down in the figures field.
- Ouest-France describes the cannabis in the boot as 8 kg of resin while actu.fr calls it cannabis without specifying resin or herbal form.
- The articles give no name for the defendant and only an Adobe Stock or Pexels illustration, so no event media is listed.
