53-year-old arrested in Kyrenia with 26 potted cannabis plants
Police in Kyrenia searched the home of 53-year-old S.Y. on 5 April 2026 and found 26 cannabis plants growing in pots plus two suspected cannabis-tobacco cigarettes. S.Y. was arrested and the investigation was continuing.
On 5 April 2026 at around 20:00, Narcotics and Anti-Smuggling Department
officers searched the residence of 53-year-old S.Y. in Kyrenia.[1]Officers
arrested S.Y. and said the investigation was continuing.[1]
The search uncovered 26 cannabis plants growing in pots.[1]Officers also
seized two hand-rolled cigarettes believed to contain a cannabis-tobacco
mixture.[1]
In Girne, narcotics teams raided the home of 53-year-old S.Y. and seized 26
potted hintkeneviri plants and two cigarettes assessed as tobacco mixed with
hintkeneviri.[2]S.Y. was arrested and the investigation is continuing.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Plants destroyed
26
Agency
Narcotics and Anti-Smuggling Department
Agency type
Anti-narcotics agency
Cannabis
Living plants (26 plants)
Setting
Home
Case stage
Under investigation
Region
Kyrenia
Sources
Cyprus Mirrorkibrispostasi.comMultiple Arrests Across Northern Cyprus in Drug, Animal Cruelty, Drunkenness, and Illegal Residency Cases
The cannabis identification was reported as believed or assessed to be cannabis, with no laboratory confirmation reported.
No weight was given for the two hand-rolled cigarettes, so no cannabis weight is recorded.
No charges, court hearing or sentence were reported; both accounts say the investigation was continuing.
The same roundup also reports an animal-killing case, a drunkenness case and five illegal-residency arrests; these are separate non-cannabis events left out of this report.
Both accounts appear to relay the same police statement, so the seizure is not independently corroborated.
No street or address within Kyrenia was published; Kyrenia town centre is used for coordinates.
Police in northern Cyprus arrested nine people in narcotics operations during island-wide checks on 7 and 8 November 2026, seizing a total of 177.5 grams of cannabis in Lefkoşa, Gazimağusa and İskele. The Lefkoşa operation at the Metehan crossing and Ercan Airport also produced 600 grams of synthetic cannabinoid, which is outside this tracker's cannabis scope.
Police in Famagusta arrested a 39-year-old man during a home search on 29 October 2026 after finding about 2 grams each of suspected cannabis and methamphetamine. The Police Press Office said the investigation was continuing.
In operations on 4 and 5 December 2025 in Kyrenia, Lefke, Metehan, Nicosia and at Ercan Airport, police reported seizing about 3.5 kg of drugs, most of it cannabis, including about 2 kg from a 22-year-old in Metehan and 600 g in Kyrenia, and arresting ten suspects. Two of them were held at the airport over four cannabis cigarettes after a detection dog alerted officers.
Customs officers at Ercan Airport found about 13 kg of suspected cannabis in the luggage of 29-year-old M.B. as he entered Northern Cyprus on 28 April 2024. Police arrested M.B. and said the investigation was continuing.
