Laayoune gendarmes arrest 1 gang leader in Taslba hashish raid
Royal Gendarmerie officers raided a secret hideout at Taslba near Boukraa and arrested the leader of a network accused of promoting hashish. Officers also seized a vehicle, drugs, weapons and a secret rubber-boat workshop for irregular migration.
🇲🇦 Taslba, Boukraa commune, Laayoune · Morocco
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The Goud report describes the target as a dangerous network promoting hashish,
the local term for cannabis resin, around Laayoune.[1]Royal Gendarmerie
judicial-centre officers in Laayoune, backed by anti-gang units under the direct
supervision of the company commander, raided a secret hideout used by the
network at Taslba in Boukraa commune, about 40 kilometres from Laayoune.[1]The operation followed precise exploitation of intelligence from the regional
intelligence service and modern technical means, which located the hideout and
allowed officers to surprise the network.[1]
Officers arrested the gang leader during the raid.[1]Officers seized a
four-wheel-drive vehicle and significant quantities of various drugs described
as ready for promotion and distribution, without giving a separate cannabis
weight.[2]Searches of the hideout found a firearm with ammunition and bladed
weapons suspected of use in the network’s criminal activity.[1]
At the same site officers also found and dismantled a secret workshop making
rubber boats intended for irregular-migration trips, showing the site combined
drug dealing with people-smuggling logistics.[1]The Laayoune regional
gendarmerie presents the raid as part of its continuing proactive campaign
against organised crime to protect people and property.[2]
No separate weight or breakdown is published for hashish versus other drugs, only significant quantities of various drugs, so no kilogram figure is counted.
No separate raid date is given; 2 November 2026 is the submitted article's publication date and is used as the incident date, corroborated by the 3 November 2026 second report.
Both pages carry generic arrest and operation images whose captions do not establish that they show this Taslba hideout, so no media entry is added.
Whether other network members were arrested, and any charges or court outcome for the detained leader, were not reported.
The rubber-boat workshop for irregular migration was found at the same site and is context; its materials are not cannabis figures.
Judicial police in Tiznit arrested a man in his thirties on 31 October 2026 with a significant quantity of cannabis resin allegedly bound for Arbaa Sahel. Wanted under several national warrants, he was placed in custody while prosecutors investigate his suspected coastal distribution network.
Royal Gendarmerie officers at Sidi Bibi, in Chtouka Ait Baha province, arrested a man from the Trast area on suspicion of possessing and trafficking drugs. About one kilogram of chira, the cannabis resin known locally as hashish, was seized, and the public prosecutor ordered him held in police custody.
Police in Al Aroui, in Morocco's Nador province, arrested two young men in two separate operations and seized chira, kif and cocaine along with cash, weapons and cars. One suspect had been wanted nationwide and was brought before the competent court; the weight of the drugs and the charges were not given.
Marrakech judicial police arrested two young men in two operations on 27 October 2026 and seized chira, cocaine, motorcycles and electronic scales. Both were held in police custody on trafficking suspicions; the weighed cannabis resin amounted to 270 g, with six more slabs counted but not weighed.