Kuwait’s General Department for Drug Control arrested six people, including one expatriate woman, in four cases involving alleged drug trafficking and use.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] Al Anba reported on 3 November 2026 that the six had been referred to the drugs and alcohol prosecution.[13] The Interior Ministry said officers had investigated the suspects and obtained a prosecution warrant to detain them and search their homes.[13]

The searches yielded 60 grams of hashish, 175 sheets of paper soaked in a substance described as a chemical and 540 Kuwaiti dinars the ministry said came from drug sales.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][10][13] Alseyassah reported two precision scales, while Arab Times listed one.[1][2] Al Anba reported equipment used to portion drugs and put the weight of methamphetamine seized at 415 grams, five grams higher than the figure in the other accounts.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] Madhyamam said the suspects kept the drugs for their own use and for smuggling.[15] The ministry released the figures for the four cases together.[1][7]