Ducos detainee and relative jailed over half a kilo of prison resin
A Ducos prison detainee and one of his relatives were convicted after he was found with half a kilo of cannabis resin at the Martinique prison's visiting room. The inmate will serve an extra year, the woman got 12 months with six firm, and a prison officer was cleared.
🇫🇷 Ducos prison (centre pénitentiaire de Ducos), Ducos, Martinique · France
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Arrested
3
Charged
2
Cannabis
500 g
Prison
12 months, 6 firm (the woman); one extra year (the detainee)
A detainee and one of his relatives were brought before the Fort-de-France
prosecutor and convicted over half a kilo of cannabis resin found on him at the
Ducos prison visiting room in Martinique.[1]The woman received 12 months in
prison, six of them firm.[1]The detainee, who was checked with the drugs,
will serve an extra year of detention for these facts.[1]
No prosecution is being pursued against the 52-year-old prison officer, whose
police custody was lifted.[1]Investigators established no link between the
officer and the trafficking.[1]
Half a kilo of cannabis resin had been found on the detainee at the visiting
room of the Ducos prison after his family’s visit.[1]Officers found the name
of a prison officer working in the same building as the detainee on the envelope
he was carrying.[1]RCI reported on 21 November 2025 that a prison officer had
been in police custody since Thursday 20 November, the day a detainee was
checked with almost 500 grams of cannabis resin after a family visit.[2]Gendarmesarrested the 52-year-old officer at about 14:00 the previous day,
handcuffed him and searched his locker and his vehicle.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
3
Charged
2
Cannabis
500 g
Prison
12 months, 6 firm (the woman); one extra year (the detainee)
Agency type
Gendarmerie, Police, Prosecutor
Cannabis
Hashish
Activity
Trafficking
Setting
Prison
Case stage
Sentenced
Sources
RCIrci.fmFRSaisie de résine de canabis à la prison de Ducos : le surveillant mis hors de cause, le détenu et sa proche condamnés
RCIrci.fmFRSaisie de drogue à la prison de Ducos, un surveillant pénitentiaire en garde à vue
Open questions the AI reported
The article does not name the court or the judge, and the convictions appear to have followed the prosecutor's referral rather than a full trial hearing.
The exact sentencing date is not stated; 23 November 2025 is the publication date of the article, which says the case advanced 'this weekend'.
The article does not give the amount of additional detention already being served by the inmate, nor the part suspended for the woman beyond the six firm months.
The source does not say whether the relative who brought the drugs and the woman convicted are the same person, though the article strongly implies it.
The article does not report whether the officer's police custody ended before the weekend or whether he faces any disciplinary action from the prison administration.
Only RCI, the same outlet in two articles, covered this case in the opened sources; no independent outlet or prosecutor's statement was found.
A 28-year-old driver tested positive for cannabis after rear-ending a car and injuring its driver at Percy-en-Normandie on 2 January 2026. The Coutances court sentenced him on 10 November 2026 to six months suspended imprisonment and cancelled his driving licence.
The criminal court in Troyes sentenced 47-year-old Ramzi Nefzaoui to 14 months in firm prison for drug trafficking and issued an arrest warrant. The case began when gendarmes stopped his Renault Laguna at Barberey-Saint-Sulpice in December 2025 and found cannabis resin, herb, cash and a scale.
The Fontainebleau criminal court sentenced a driver to five years in prison, including two years firm, over a fatal 2021 crash at Souppes-sur-Loing in which his 20-year-old passenger died. The court heard he had drunk alcohol and smoked cannabis and was driving at 135 km/h in a 30 km/h zone.
Anti-crime police in Passamaïnty, Mayotte, broke up a drug deal on 4 November 2026 and seized 3.334 kg of cannabis and 8,495 euros in cash from a suspected stash flat; three people were arrested. Two young men were tried in Mamoudzou on 9 November and sentenced to 30 months with 12 suspended and a 15-month suspended term.