13 arrested in Guadeloupe-Dominica network; 47 kg cannabis seized
Gendarmerie officers dismantled a Venezuela-Dominica-Guadeloupe trafficking network, arresting ten suspects between 30 May and 2 June 2025 after an earlier beach seizure netted three more. The cannabis component totalled 47 kg across the two seizures, alongside much larger cocaine hauls that are excluded from cannabis figures.
Between 30 May and 2 June 2025, the ten suspects were arrested in Guadeloupe
during a large judicial operation by several gendarmerie units under the
direction of the JIRS.[1]After their arrest, the ten suspects were placed
under formal investigation and held in provisional detention.[1]France-Antilles reported that ten alleged traffickers were formally investigated
and jailed in Guadeloupe on suspicion of taking part in a supply network that
imported 15 tonnes of various drugs over two years.[2]
On 15 July 2024, the same research section learned that a drug delivery was
imminent on a beach at Basse-Terre in Guadeloupe.[1]Supported by the
Guadeloupe GIGN branch, investigators arrested three people landing on the beach
and seized nearly 800 kg of cocaine and 27 kg of cannabis herb that had come
from Dominica.[1]France-Antilles dates the joint Research Section and GIGN
operation to the night of 14 to 15 July 2024, when three people were arrested on
a beach at Capesterre-Belle-Eau.[2]It identified the three as two
Guadeloupeans and one Dominican national caught recovering a cargo of 780 kg of
cocaine and 26 kg of cannabis herb from Dominica.[2]The May-June 2025
operation also seized 20 kg of cannabis herb, a 900-gram cocaine brick, a
category-B handgun, a double-barrel shotgun, ammunition, luxury clothing and
leather goods, cash, jewellery and six vehicles.[1]France-Antilles lists the
same follow-on seizures as a category-B handgun, a double-barrel shotgun with
various ammunition, a 900-gram cocaine brick, 20 kg of cannabis herb, luxury
clothing and leather goods with jewellery, large cash sums and six vehicles.[2]
Investigators established that at least 15 tonnes of drugs, mainly cocaine and
to a lesser extent cannabis, had been transported from Venezuela to Guadeloupe
beaches over the previous two years.[1]The sea operation off Dominica was run
by Dominican nationals.[1]Because of the scale of the seizure, the
Fort-de-France Interregional Specialised Jurisdiction took the case and
travelled to Guadeloupe with prosecutors, an investigating judge and a
liberty-and-detention judge.[1]The investigation also found money-laundering
through fund transfers to Dominica and Venezuela estimated at more than 450,000
euros.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The cannabis total of 47 kg sums the separately stated 27 kg and 20 kg seizures reported by the Gendarmerie; cocaine seizures of nearly 800 kg and a 900-gram brick are excluded from cannabis figures.
The at-least-15-tonnes estimate covers mainly cocaine and to a lesser extent cannabis and cannot be separated, so it is excluded from cannabis figures.
The Gendarmerie reports nearly 800 kg of cocaine and 27 kg of cannabis on a Basse-Terre beach, while France-Antilles reports 780 kg and 26 kg at Capesterre-Belle-Eau; the report uses the official Gendarmerie figures.
Capesterre-Belle-Eau is a commune on the island of Basse-Terre, which may explain the different beach descriptions.
The source states three beach arrests in July 2024 and ten arrests in May-June 2025 separately; it is unclear whether the groups overlap, so the arrested figure sums both reported arrests.
The sum of more than 450,000 euros describes alleged laundered funds transferred to Dominica and Venezuela, not a drug valuation, so no value is recorded.
No names, ages or other identifying details beyond two Guadeloupeans and one Dominican national in the beach seizure were published, and no trial outcome beyond formal investigation and provisional detention was reported.
The incident date uses the end of the 30 May-2 June 2025 arrest operation; 14 June 2025 is the Gendarmerie article publication date.
France-Antilles mentions a separate February 2024 interception of about 300 kg of cocaine and 170 kg of cannabis with four arrests, a different event left out here.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Gendinfo, Gendarmerie nationale: Gendarmes of the Pointe-à-Pitre Research Section arrested ten people and disrupted a drug-trafficking network operating in the Caribbean between Dominica, Venezuela and Guadeloupe.
Anti-crime squad officers arrested three men selling cocaine and cannabis resin from Marseille streets on Sunday 8 November 2026, two in the 11th arrondissement and one in the 15th. Two officers were injured overpowering the third man, and all three were taken into police custody.
A 24-year-old man was arrested in Montpellier's Saint-Martin neighbourhood on 8 November 2026 after offering to sell cannabis to an undercover anti-crime (BAC) officer, and three officers were needed to detain him when he bit one of them. Officers found 21 g of cannabis, a small amount of cocaine and cash nearby, and he is due in court on 10 November.
Police in Le Mans stopped a 22-year-old riding an electric scooter at high speed on the pavement on 8 November 2026 after he refused to stop, then found a substance that appeared to be cannabis resin on him. He was held in custody and is to be summoned in June 2027 under a fixed-penalty court order providing for 70 hours of unpaid work.
Police in Draguignan arrested one adult and two minors after finding nearly 2.5 kg of cannabis resin disguised as Dubai chocolate bars in their car. One of the three, who was to deliver the drugs, was referred to the prosecutor and placed under judicial supervision pending trial.
