Morocco seizes 4,345 kg of cannabis resin at Es-Semara farm
Moroccan police dismantled an international sea-trafficking network at a farm north of Es-Semara, seizing 4,345 kg of cannabis resin and arresting two men aged 31 and 32.
Acting on territorial-surveillance intelligence, police raided a farm 17 km
north of Es-Semara on Saturday morning and broke up an international drug
trafficking network operating by sea.[1]Officers seized a first shipment of
cannabis resin totalling 4,345 kg, plus three inflatable boats, two motors,
fuel canisters, a four-wheel-drive vehicle and hunting cartridges.[1]
Two men aged 31 and 32 were arrested and taken into custody for the judicial
police investigation in Laayoune.[1]A later search found a second stash 50
km away holding nine more bundles of chira.[1]
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Royal Gendarmerie officers in Kalaat Sraghna raided an olive grove bordering Marchouh commune, seizing hashish, cannabis ears and traditional spirit, and arrested one suspect. The gendarmes said investigations were continuing to identify and arrest the others involved.
Royal Gendarmerie officers in Larache province arrested two men caught crushing cannabis at Douar Mahir, in Bni Garfat commune, and seized 2.26 tonnes of kif, of which 1,360 kilograms were stems and 900 kilograms already crushed material. The two were held in police custody under a prosecutor's inquiry, and the seized cannabis was destroyed under a mixed commission.
Royal Gendarmerie officers arrested four men and seized more than two tonnes of kif and smuggled tobacco from three vehicles in the Aoulouz area of Taroudant province, Morocco. The four were held on the public prosecutor's orders for an inquiry into where the shipment came from and where it was going.
Police in Tinghir province stopped a car on the outskirts of Boumalne Dadès on 29 October 2026 and found 28 kilograms of chira, the cannabis resin known as hashish, hidden in its bodywork. Four people, two of them women, were arrested and remanded to Ouarzazate prison, and investigators suspect one woman's husband directed the network from his cell.
