One arrested in Khanka over social-media hashish sales
Police in Khanka, Qalyubia arrested an unemployed man accused of running a social-media page to sell drugs, seizing hashish and a mobile phone. He confessed to managing the page to promote narcotics.
🇪🇬 Khanka, Qalyubia Governorate · Egypt
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Egypt’s cybercrime investigators detected a person running a social-media page
that offered narcotic substances for sale for money.[1][2][3][4][5][6]The monitoring was
conducted by the General Directorate for Combating Information Technology Crimes
in the communications and information-technology sector, in coordination with
the Public Security sector.[1][2][3][4][5][6]After checks, officers identified the page’s
administrator as an unemployed man who lives in the Khanka police district in
Qalyubia Governorate and arrested him.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Officers seized a quantity of hashish found in his possession during the arrest.[1][2][3][4][5][6]They also seized a mobile phone, and examination of the phone showed
material confirming his criminal activity.[1][3][4][5][6]The seized hashish is the
cannabis product recorded in this report, while the phone was kept as evidence
of the online promotion.[1]
When confronted, the man confessed that he ran the page to promote narcotic
substances.[1][2][3][4][5][6]In Egyptian press usage, the word عاطل describes an unemployed
person, the term used here for the Khanka suspect.[1]The enforcement action
therefore linked online promotion of drugs for payment with physical possession
of hashish in Khanka.[1]
No weight, packaging detail or valuation for the seized hashish was published, so no cannabis quantity or value can be recorded.
The article gives no separate date for the monitoring or arrest; 4 November 2026 is its publication date and is used as the incident date.
The suspect was described only as unemployed and resident in the Khanka district; no name or age was published.
No charges, referral to prosecution or court outcome were reported.
Only one accessible account of this Khanka event was found after searching in Arabic and English.
The page carries a photo whose file path dates to 2022, so it is not established to show this seizure and no media entry is included.
The new page's image caption repeats the headline and does not establish that it shows this seizure, so no media entry is included.
The Almasryalyoum page carries a photo captioned with the headline and credited to others, which does not by itself establish that it shows this seizure, so no media entry is added.
The Mobtada page carries images captioned as a security patrol and the accused, which do not by themselves establish that they show this Khanka seizure, so no media entry is included.
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