Jordan held 2,472 on drug cases in September, with about 23 kg of hashish
Jordan's Drug Control administration arrested 2,472 people on drug cases in September 2018, a Public Security Directorate spokesman said, and handed 1,831 cases to the State Security Court prosecutor. The spokesman counted about 23 kilograms of cannabis, natural and industrial, among the month's seizures, alongside hundreds of thousands of Captagon pills and other drugs.
Jordan’s Drug Control administration arrested 2,472 people on drug cases in
September 2018, a spokesman for the Directorate of Public Security said.[1]Of
those held, 508 people were involved in 281 trafficking cases.[1]Another
1,964 people were involved in 1,550 cases of drug use and possession.[1]The
spokesman said 1,831 cases were handed over to the prosecutor of the State
Security Court, Jordan’s court for security and drug offences.[1]
The spokesman put the seized cannabis at about 23 kilograms, counting natural
and industrial cannabis together.[1]The same monthly count also included more
than 404,000 Captagon pills and other pills, 910 bags of Joker drug and a
variety of other drugs, whose quantities include synthetic substances.[1]The
separate Ammon account of the same statement put the month’s case total at 1,831
trafficking, possession and use cases, and said 153 of the people involved were
non-Jordanians.[2]The Arabic-language accounts call the seized material
hashish, natural and industrial, and say the industrial form is Joker.[3]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The source gives no single day for the month's arrests; 30 September 2018 is the end of the September 2018 period covered.
The 23 kg is a combined figure for natural and industrial cannabis; the industrial form is called Joker, which Jordanian reporting treats as a synthetic drug, and the natural share is not separately given.
The Arabic accounts give the number of non-Jordanians among those held as 153, which the English summary does not mention.
All opened accounts reproduce the same Public Security Directorate statement, so they are not independent of each other.
The reports give no individual charges, detentions or court outcomes for the cases beyond the referral to the prosecutor.
Jordan's Eastern Military Region said border guard units brought down guided balloons carrying a large quantity of drugs inside Jordanian territory on the morning of 9 November 2026 and seized the cargo. The drugs were passed to the competent authorities, and no weight, arrests or border of origin were reported.
Jordan's Anti-Narcotics Department arrested 28 dealers and pushers in 15 cases over the days before 8 November 2026, including raids on a Jabal al-Taj dealer and a tent south of Amman. Officers seized hashish, 4.6 kilograms of marijuana, pills, crystal methamphetamine and cocaine, and held suspects in Amman, Irbid, Ma'an, Zarqa and the Central Badia.
Jordan Customs Anti-Smuggling patrols foiled a narcotics smuggling attempt on 9 October 2026, seizing 296 slabs of hashish and six kilograms of marijuana. The department credited joint work with security agencies.
Jordan's Anti-Narcotics Department dealt with 13 drug cases over several days to 8 October 2026, arresting 31 suspects, including an Aqaba boat smuggler caught with 132 hashish slabs and tent and mountain-cache raids in Madaba.
