Officers of the Ioannina drug enforcement department arrested a Greek man in the city on the afternoon of 9 November 2026.[1][2][3][4][5][6] They stopped him as he left his home and put a package holding 150.8 grams of raw cannabis next to a rubbish bin.[1][7][2][3][5][6] Police had followed the man after gathering information that he kept large quantities of drugs at home to sell to users in the area.[1][2][3]

A search of the house, carried out in the presence of a court official, found packages holding 3,428.1 grams of raw cannabis.[1][7][4][6] The same search found two packages of cocaine weighing 514.79 grams in total, which is not counted here as cannabis.[8][7][9][4][5][6] Adding the package left by the bin, the cannabis taken in the case comes to about 3.58 kilograms.[10][6]

A case file was drawn up against him for possession and trafficking of drugs and for offences under the law on flares, and he was to be taken to the Ioannina public prosecutor’s office.[1][7][6] Officers also found a precision electronic scale, two marine flares and a firecracker.[7][3][4][5] Police gave no information on possible accomplices, a network or where the drugs came from.[10]