Two men arrested in Fayoum over social-media hashish sales
Security forces in Fayoum arrested two men accused of running a social media page advertising hashish and other drugs for money, finding hashish and a phone on each. One confessed to running the page and named the other as his supplier, who admitted holding the hashish for sale.
🇪🇬 Fayoum city, Fayoum Governorate · Egypt
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General Administration for Combating Information Technology Crimes, Public Security Sector +1
Security forces of the Fayoum Security Directorate arrested two men accused of running a social media
page to promote drug sales for money.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
The General Administration for Combating Information Technology Crimes spotted the page together with
the Public Security sector.[1][2][3][10][4][11][5][6][8]Investigation identified the page’s administrator as a
worker living in the district of Fayoum police centre, and officers found a quantity of hashish and a
mobile phone with him.[1][2][3][10][4][12][11][5][6][7][8][9]The phone held evidence of his criminal activity,
police said.[1]
Faced with the findings, he confessed to running the page and named a second man, unemployed, with
prior criminal records and living in the Second Fayoum police district, as his supplier.[1][2][3][10][4][11][5][6][8][9]After legal procedures were completed, officers arrested the second man and
found hashish and a mobile phone with him[1][2][3][10][13][5][8][9]; he confessed to holding the hashish to
traffic it.[1][2][3][10][4][5][6][8][9]Police took legal measures against both and notified the
investigating authorities.[1][2][4][5][8]
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Police handout photo captioned "the two accused": two men with blurred faces stand side by side behind a table holding seized hashish and a mobile phone, next to a phone screenshot said to show the promoting page. Credit not given.Photo details
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No weight, value or packet count was published for the hashish found on either man, so no cannabis quantity can be recorded.
The article gives no date for the arrests; 7 November 2026 is its publication date and is used as the incident date.
The suspects were not named and no ages were published.
No charges or court outcome were reported; the case was referred to the investigation authorities.
Only one accessible account of this event was found after searching in Arabic; no Interior Ministry statement or independent report was opened.
The seized hashish is shown in the police handout photo, but the text gives no figure for it.
The photo's blurred faces and the missing mobile phones on the table suggest a police handout recycled across Egyptian drug-arrest reports, so it cannot be confirmed as this arrest.
The page owner's home address is not described in the report, so 'home' as a setting is inferred from the district-level residence rather than stated.
Al-Dostor gives no weight, value or packet count for the hashish found on either man.
Al-Dostor's page photo is captioned only "متهمين" (the accused), with no credit, and cannot be confirmed to show this arrest rather than a recycled police handout.
Iqraa News relays the Interior Ministry statement and attaches its own fact-check label; it is not independent reporting on this arrest.
Sad Al-Arab and Mobtada reproduce the same Interior Ministry statement as the accounts already cited, so they are not independent reporting.
Mobtada's page photo is captioned only المتهمين (the accused) and is a generic police handout, so it is not linked here as a picture of this arrest.
No weight, value or packet count for the hashish found on either man was published in these two accounts either.
Mobtada gives no charge sheet or court outcome; the case remained with the investigation authorities.
Al-Gomhor gives no weight, value or packet count for the hashish found on either man, so it adds no cannabis quantity to the recorded report.
The page photo captioned المتهمان (the two accused) carries no credit and cannot be confirmed to show this arrest, so it is not added as media.
Akhbar Al-Yom gives no weight, value or packet count for the hashish found on either man, so it adds no cannabis quantity to the recorded report.
Akhbar Al-Yom gives no date for the arrests; 7 November 2026 is its publication date and stands in for the incident date.
Youlyou reproduces the same Interior Ministry statement as the accounts already cited and is not independent reporting on this arrest.
Like the other accounts, Youlyou gives no weight, value or packet count for the hashish found on either man.
Dar Al-Hilal reproduces the same Interior Ministry statement as the accounts already cited and is not independent reporting of the arrest.
Like the other accounts, the page gives no weight, value or packet count for the hashish found on either man.
Neither the page nor the report gives an exact date for the arrests; 7 November 2026 is the publication date.
Security agencies in El-Khusus, Qalyubia, detained 11 people in a campaign launched after social-media posts about drug dealing. Officers said the suspects were carrying hashish together with heroin, ice and powdered drugs.
Cairo detectives arrested two unemployed men in El-Marg with 37 slabs of hashish, a shotgun and cartridges after a tip that they were distributing the drug. The two admitted holding the hashish to sell it.
Luxor police arrested four men accused of stealing motorcycles and hiding them in Al-Zanaqta, recovering five bikes. Officers also seized hashish of unstated weight and half a kilogram of shabu, and prosecutors ordered the suspects held for four days.
Egypt's Interior Ministry said its traffic campaigns tested 1,045 drivers in 24 hours and 44 were positive for narcotics use, with no substance named. A parallel campaign on work zones along the Regional Ring Road tested 156 drivers, reported seven positives and detained seven people wanted under nine court rulings.