Police in Gastouni arrested a Greek man at midday on 3 November 2026 after finding 62.9 grams of cannabis in two packages during a check. Officers also seized a handmade tobacco-cannabis cigarette from his possession.
🇬🇷 Gastouni, Pineios, Elis · Greece
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Arrested
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Cannabis
62.9 g
Officers of the OPDI unit of the Pineios Police Department arrested a Greek man
in Gastouni at midday on 3 November 2026.[1][2][3]Officers detained the man during
a police check in Gastouni.[1]Police described the detained person only as a
Greek man.[1]
During the check officers found two packages in his possession containing a
total of 62.9 grams of cannabis.[1][2][3]Officers seized the two cannabis packages.[1]The 62.9-gram total was the combined weight of those two packages.[1]Officers also seized a handmade cigarette containing a mixture of tobacco and
cannabis.[1][2][3]The handmade cigarette was separate from the two weighed
packages.[1]
The arrested man faces charges for violating drugs legislation.[3]
The article was published on 4 November 2026 and says the arrest happened yesterday at midday, so 3 November 2026 is used as the incident date.
No weight was published for the handmade tobacco-cannabis cigarette, so the kilogram figure covers only the two packages.
No charges, custody decision or court outcome were reported.
Only one accessible source for this event was found after searching in Greek, so no second account could be opened.
The page image filename indicates a police patrol car and is not established to show this seizure, so no media entry is included.
The pelop.gr account gives no separate incident date for the Gastouni check; only its 4 November 2026 publication timestamp is known, so the 3 November 2026 incident date still rests on the existing dete.gr account.
The same pelop.gr article also reports a separate traffic arrest on the Patras–Pyrgos national road for driving after licence withdrawal, with no cannabis component, left out here as unrelated to this report.
The pelop.gr lead image uses a June 2025 file with a headline caption and is not established to show this seizure, so no media entry is included from this source.
The PatrisNews page image is captioned only with the article headline and carries no credit establishing that it shows this seizure, so no media entry is included.
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