Officers of the Guadeloupe detachment of OFAST, France’s anti-narcotics office, backed by the territorial judicial police, stopped a drugs landing on the island’s south coast on the night of 2 to 3 November 2025.[1] They arrested ten people.[2] Three vehicles carrying the bales were stopped in the act in Trois-Rivières and Capesterre-Belle-Eau.[2]

The police said the haul was 131.061 kg of cannabis herb, 2.44 kg of cannabis resin and 1 kg of cocaine, 134.5 kg of drugs in all.[1] Surveillance had identified an inter-island import route between Dominica and Guadeloupe that also carried people in an irregular situation.[1] Searches after the arrests found ammunition of several calibres, drugs packaged for resale and a satellite phone.[1]

Three of those arrested, from Saint-Martin, Dominica and Guadeloupe, were brought before the Pointe-à-Pitre prosecutor and appeared in immediate proceedings on 7 November; that hearing was postponed until December.[1] Two others were sentenced to six months in prison with a five-year ban from French territory.[1] Four more were placed in an administrative detention centre, and one person’s status was still being settled.[1] France-Antilles, covering the Pointe-à-Pitre correctional court on 10 November, reported that twelve people had been arrested while 54 kg of cannabis herb was unloaded on a Trois-Rivières beach, and that only three would be tried later because the case had been adjourned.[3] A television report said one of those three asked for time to prepare a defence, so the case was put off to 12 December, and that the three remained in pre-trial detention.[4]