Two drivers held at Fontaine toll with 40 kg of cannabis
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.
🇫🇷 Péage de Fontaine, A36, Territoire de Belfort · France
The two men held were a 46-year-old Ecuadorean national and a 36-year-old
Colombian national who had come from Spain.[1]Both live in Spain and work as
delivery drivers for UPS, carrying the cannabis alongside their legal load.[1]They admitted acting as “mules” after collecting the load in Madrid for delivery
to a final destination.[1]
Customs officers from the Territoire de Belfort found the drugs during checks at
the Fontaine toll on the A36 on Monday 9 November.[1]The drugs were found
aboard a Spanish UPS truck carrying the two men.[1]They were carrying 35 kg
of cannabis and 5 kg of resin, 40 kg in total.[1]The drugs were packed in two
heat-sealed sports bags placed on the bunk at the rear of the cab.[1]Belfort
prosecutor Paul-Édouard Lallois put the market value at €350,000 for the
cannabis and €40,000 for the resin.[1]
The two men were first held in customs detention and then placed in police
custody.[1]They were still being questioned by the gendarmerie on Tuesday and
were due to be brought before the Belfort prosecutor’s office on Wednesday.[1]
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Seized cannabis at the Fontaine toll on the A36. Photo: Estelle SanchezPhoto details
L'Est Républicainestrepublicain.frFRFontaine. A36 : un Colombien et un Équatorien arrêtés au péage avec 40 kg de cannabis, pour une valeur de 400 000 euros
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The headline gives a rounded total value of €400,000, while the prosecutor’s detailed figures of €350,000 plus €40,000 total €390,000; the report uses the detailed figures.
The final destination of the load was not reported.
No outcome of the planned appearance before the Belfort prosecutor’s office was reported.
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.
Gendarmes stopped a two-car convoy carrying 425 kg of cannabis resin in Saint-Chamond on 2 November 2026 and arrested three men. The three, who had loaded the resin in Perpignan after it came from Spain, were charged and jailed pending trial on 6 November.
