Man held in Hanau with 2.3 kg cannabis, cocaine and gun
Police in Hanau arrested a 36-year-old man and say a search of his flat found about 1.4 kg of marijuana and about 900 grams of hashish alongside cocaine. An investigating judge at Hanau Local Court issued an arrest warrant for suspected armed drug trafficking and ordered pretrial detention.
Police provisionally arrested one 36-year-old man from Hanau in the night to
Saturday after he allegedly caused a disturbance in the city.[1][2]Officers
searching him and the items he was carrying found small amounts of drugs.[1][2]At the request of the Hanau public prosecutor’s office, the suspect was brought
before an investigating judge at Hanau Local Court on Sunday.[1][2]The judge
issued an arrest warrant over suspected armed trafficking of drugs and cannabis
in a not insignificant quantity and ordered pretrial detention.[1][2]He was
taken directly to a prison after the hearing.[1][2]
A court-ordered search of his flat seized about 1.4 kg of marijuana and about
900 grams of hashish, together about 2.3 kg of cannabis.[1][2]The same search
also seized about 1.4 kg of cocaine.[3][2]Officers also seized small amounts of
ketamine and ecstasy, a ready-to-access blank-firing gun and a telescopic baton,
plus a money-counting machine, several mobile phones and packaging material.[1][2]
The account is a joint press release by the Hanau prosecutor’s office and the
South-East Hesse police presidium.[3][2]Police said investigations are
continuing.[3][2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The night-to-Saturday arrest corresponds to 7 November and the Sunday court hearing to 8 November 2026, inferred from the 10 November publication date; the reports give weekdays rather than calendar dates.
The cannabis weights are approximate police seizure figures of about 1.4 kg of marijuana and about 900 grams of hashish, summed here as about 2.3 kg; cocaine, ketamine and ecstasy quantities are excluded from the cannabis figure.
No laboratory confirmation, value estimate, or further court outcome was reported.
All published accounts reproduce the same joint prosecutor-police statement, so they are not independent reporting.
Customs officers stopped a car with two men at Hausmoning near the Austrian border and arrested both after finding about 1 kg of marijuana flowers and about 200 g of hashish in the footwell. The passenger had tried to flee on an e-scooter and had hidden 2,800 euros in his shoes; officers seized the drugs and cash and opened criminal proceedings.
Police in the Kriegshaber district of Augsburg stopped a 27-year-old e-scooter rider in the early hours of 11 November 2026 and found signs of alcohol and drug impairment; he admitted having consumed cannabis and held no driving licence. A blood sample was taken and police opened an investigation for drink-driving through alcohol and cannabis and for driving without a licence.
Cologne police arrested five suspected cocaine dealers, aged 21 to 39, in raids on their apartments on 10 November 2026 and seized about 300 grams of marijuana along with around 600 grams of cocaine and €20,000 in cash. Police suspect the group ran a cocaine trade in the Südstadt district and said the investigation continues.
On 10 November 2026, federal police found a 30-year-old Albanian national on a train without a valid ticket and seized several hundred grams of cannabis from his backpack. State police in Magdeburg provisionally arrested him, and criminal proceedings were opened.
