Two men detained in Hadramout with 38 grams of hashish
Hadramout Coast Police anti-narcotics officers detained two men, aged 27 and 31, accused of dealing, with 38 grams of hashish and 4 grams of shabu. Both were held pending referral to the competent authorities.
Anti-narcotics officers of the Hadramout Coast Police detained two men accused
of promoting narcotics after finding hashish and shabu in their possession.[1]Police identified the suspects only by initials: one man was 27 years old and
the other was 31.[1]The force said both were accused of dealing in narcotic
substances and that the drugs were found on them.[1]
Officers reported 38 grams of hashish, cannabis resin, in the men’s possession,
and a further 4 grams of shabu, methamphetamine, seized with the resin.[1]The
cannabis in this arrest is the hashish.[1]Shabu is a different drug and is
not part of the cannabis weight.[1]
The police kept the seized drugs.[1]They placed both men in detention on the
case so that legal procedures could be completed and the two could be referred
to the competent authorities.[1]The account names the arresting force as the
anti-narcotics unit of the Hadramout Coast Police.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The arrest day is not stated; the date used is the article's publication date, 13 October 2026.
No town on the Hadramout coast is named.
The men are identified only by initials, and no court charge or sentence is reported.
No second source confirming this seizure could be opened.
The page image is captioned with the whole roundup headline, which also covers a Marib fire and a drowning, so it was not treated as a photo of the seizure.
The Specialized Criminal Court of First Instance for the Capital Secretariat in Sanaa convicted two men of trafficking cannabis resin and pregabalin pills and sentenced them to 25 years in prison. Prosecutors said the first defendant moved 594 blocks of cannabis resin between 2023 and 2025, and the court confiscated the two pickup trucks used in the trade.
Anti-narcotics police in Aden detained two people in Khormaksar district and seized nine bags of hashish weighing 10.5 kg, saying the bags were packed for distribution. The department's director said the file would go to prosecutors and then to a criminal court, where he said the pair face 25 years in prison.
The interior ministry's drug-control administration reported about 1.3 tonnes of drugs seized in government-controlled areas in the first half of 2026: 613.7 kg of hashish, 617.6 kg of methamphetamine, 100 kg of heroin, 4 kg of opium, more than a million Captagon pills and 41,768 other pills.
Yemen's General Department for Combating Drugs reported 734 suspects detained in 484 drug cases in the first half of 2026, including 613.7 kg of hashish and one case of cultivating drug plants. The figures cover only governorates under the internationally recognised government, and most of the seized weight was methamphetamine and other drugs.
