Jordan anti-narcotics arrests 26 in 8 cases, seizing 240 hashish slabs
Jordan's Anti-Narcotics Department dealt with eight drug cases over the days before 2 September 2026, arresting 26 smugglers, dealers and pushers and seizing large quantities of narcotics and firearms. Officers took 253 slabs of hashish, crystal methamphetamine, 39,000 narcotic pills and 12 firearms.
🇯🇴 Southern Region, Al-Ruwaished, Aqaba, Amman, Irbid, Madaba and Southern Badia, Jordan
Arrested
26
Agencies
Jordan Anti-Narcotics Department (إدارة مكافحة المخدرات), Public Security Directorate (مديرية الأمن العام)
Jordan’s Public Security Directorate said its Anti-Narcotics Department officers
dealt with eight drug cases over the preceding days, arresting 26 smugglers,
dealers and pushers and seizing large quantities of narcotics and firearms.[1]Saraya News carried the same Public Security Directorate statement on the same
day, reporting the eight cases and the 26 arrests.[2]
The most prominent case was in Jordan’s Southern Region, where two men linked to
regional drug-smuggling gangs were raided while moving a large quantity of
hashish from the south towards Madaba Governorate.[1]Officers seized 240
slabs of hashish and 11 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine from the two
Southern Region smugglers.[1]
Two security campaigns in the Al-Ruwaished district arrested 11 wanted and
suspicious people and drug dealers, and officers seized 33,000 narcotic pills
and 12 firearms.[1]A security campaign in Aqaba Governorate against drug
dealers and pushers led to five arrests, with scattered quantities of narcotics
seized.[1]In the capital Amman, officers raided a crystal methamphetamine
pusher and seized half a kilogram of the drug, then raided a second pusher and
seized four slabs of hashish and a firearm.[1]
In Irbid Governorate two pushers were arrested with 250 grams of crystal
methamphetamine.[1]In Madaba Governorate officers seized nine slabs of
hashish from two drug pushers.[1]In the final case, officers raided two drug
dealers in the Southern Badia and arrested them with 6,000 narcotic pills.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
26
Agencies
Jordan Anti-Narcotics Department (إدارة مكافحة المخدرات); Public Security Directorate (مديرية الأمن العام)
The statement says the casework ran over the preceding days but gives no separate date for each operation, so 2 September 2026, the date of the Petra release, stands in for the incident date.
Hashish is counted in slabs (كف, a pressed slab), and no source gives a weight for any hashish, so no kilogram figure is used for it.
The 240-slab Southern Region case and the smaller Amman and Madaba seizures are stated as slabs only, with no street value or weight published.
No names, charges, value estimates or court outcomes were published for any of the eight cases.
The Aqaba campaign seized only 'scattered quantities of narcotics' without specifying whether any of it was cannabis, so no cannabis figure is taken from that case.
The roundup also reports crystal methamphetamine, narcotic pills and firearms, which are not cannabis and are left out of the cannabis figures.
The whole account rests on the Public Security Directorate statement as carried by Petra and Saraya News; no independent reporting of the raids was found.
The text gives a weight ("11 kilograms") but the figures have no kg_seized; check whether it belongs there.
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'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.
Police arrested 35 people in 13 drugs-and-weapons cases across Jordan in early February 2026. Raids on three marijuana-growing sites in Southern Shouneh led to two arrests, and in Amman officers detained four dealers with 5 kg of marijuana; they also seized hashish blocks, crystal meth and firearms in Ma'an, Zarqa, Ajloun and Ramtha.
Jordan's Public Security Directorate announced twelve arrests in a series of drug operations on 20 October 2025. At the Jaber border crossing with Syria, officers seized 85,000 narcotic pills, and searches across the country recovered 119 blocks of hashish, including 40 in Jerash and 36 in Aqaba. The operations also led to arrests in Amman and Zarqa, where officers found further hashish and pills.
