32-year-old held in Larnaca as 6 g cannabis found in cocaine bust
Police in Larnaca district arrested a 32-year-old man after finding about 1.03 kg of cocaine in his car and two hidden containers, plus about six grams of cannabis and resin at his home. He was held for a Larnaca court remand hearing as drug-enforcement officers continued a trafficking investigation.
🇨🇾 Larnaca district · Cyprus
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Police arrested a 32-year-old man in Larnaca district on Monday after searches
of his car, home and two open areas.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]Officers from the Directorate for
Combating Organised Crime (DAOE), the Anti-Drugs Unit (YKAN) and YPEE stopped
the car he was driving in a rural part of the district at about 5pm.[1][9][4][7]The
man was taken into custody and was expected to appear before Larnaca District
Court on Tuesday morning for a remand hearing.[1][2][9][3]Police said the arrest was
part of efforts to track down people systematically involved in drug
trafficking, and Larnaca DAOE-YKAN is continuing investigations.[1]
Officers found two cylindrical packages of cocaine on him, with a combined gross
weight of 100 grams, and 16 firecrackers in the car.[1][10][9][7][8][11]In an open area near
his home, where he had also been seen earlier, a plastic container carefully
hidden in the ground held 11 bags of cocaine with a combined gross weight of 826
grams.[1][10][9][6][7][8][11]In a second open area, where officers had seen the man before the
stop, they found another plastic container holding two bags of cocaine with a
combined gross weight of 100 grams.[1][6][8][11]A search of his home turned up a glass
jar containing about eight grams of cocaine, four packages holding about six
grams of cannabis, a small amount of cannabis resin, precision scales, a grinder
with traces of cannabis and the 21,100 euros.[1][2][10][9][3][4][5][6][7][8][11]The home search account is
corroborated by a second report that lists approximately eight grammes of
cocaine, six grammes of cannabis in four packages, a small quantity of cannabis
resin, a precision scale, a grinder with traces of cannabis and cash believed to
be proceeds of illegal activities.[12]
The 32-year-old man was remanded for eight days on Tuesday by Larnaca district court.[10][4][5][6][8][11]
Police said the 32-year-old Greek Cypriot was arrested after surveillance and is believed to be a member of a drug-trafficking criminal network.[8][11]Police said they will also investigate his financial records.[8][11]
The suspect was previously unknown to YKAN despite intelligence concerning him.[11]
The articles give only the publication date of 3 November 2026 and say the arrest was on Monday; 2 November 2026 is used as the incident date by inference.
No weight was published for the small amount of cannabis resin, so it is excluded from the cannabis weight figure.
Cocaine quantities totalling about 1.03 kg are not counted as cannabis and are excluded from figures.
The 21,100 euros is described as cash believed to come from illegal activity, not as a valuation of the drugs, so no value figure is recorded.
The submitted page carries five images captioned Kokaini Larnaka, Viber Image 2026 11 02 22 38 45 506 Copy, Image 12, Image 13 and Image 14 708x1536, whose captions do not establish that they depict this seizure, so no media entry is added.
The Cyprus Mail page image is labelled File photo and is excluded because it does not depict this event.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Cyprus Mail: In total, police seized approximately 1.03kg of cocaine, along with the other substances, cash, equipment, 16 firecrackers and four mobile phones as evidence for further examination.
The submitted page gives only its publication date of 3 November 2026 and says the arrest was yesterday evening, so the 2 November 2026 incident date continues to rely on inference from the existing sources.
The submitted page states only quantity of cannabis without a weight, so the six-gram cannabis figure continues to rely on the existing sources.
The submitted page describes cash as exceeding 21,000 euros without the exact 21,100 figure used in the existing report.
The submitted page carries an image with an empty caption, so whether it depicts this seizure could not be established and no media entry is added.
The article's summary says the total cocaine, cannabis, resin, scale and cash were found in his home, while its detailed account places finds across the car, home and two open areas as recorded in the existing report.
The article gives only its publication date of 3 November 2026 and says the stop was on Monday, so the 2 November 2026 arrest date still relies on inference from the earlier sources.
The page's lead image is labelled as an archive photo and its two inline drug photos carry no caption establishing they show this seizure, so no media entry is listed.
The page's only listed image is labelled as an indicative photo and is not shown to depict this seizure, so no media entry is listed.
The submitted page states only a quantity of cannabis without a weight, so the six-gram cannabis figure continues to rely on the existing sources.
The submitted page describes cash as exceeding 21,000 euros without the exact 21,100 euro figure used in the existing report.
The new page's still image carries only the caption ςςς and its embedded video thumbnail carries no caption establishing that either depicts this seizure, so no media entry is added.
The page carries six images with empty or file-name-only captions, so none is established to show this seizure and no media entry is added.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Reporter: The 32-year-old man was remanded for eight days on Tuesday by Larnaca district court.
The article also reports national seizure totals and drug-use trends, which belong to the CFI history and are left out of this enforcement report.
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Cyprus police arrested 26 people on 5 November 2026 in nationwide Operation Plegma against a suspected drug-trafficking network. The case stems from a February seizure of 167 kg of cannabis and 4.5 kg of cannabis resin alongside cocaine, followed by asset freezes worth about 500,000 euros.
The Nicosia district court remanded a 22-year-old man in custody for eight days on 30 October 2026 after police seized about 6.4kg of cannabis, including 2.56kg found in a parcel from abroad. The parcel had been declared as Lego toys and was addressed to a recipient in Engomi; a taxi driver who collected it was arrested and later released when no evidence was found against him.
A 19-year-old British passport holder was arrested at Larnaca airport on the morning of 23 October 2026 after customs and the anti-drugs unit found 26 packages holding about 28 kg of cannabis in two of his suitcases. He had flown in from Thailand via Dubai and was due in court for a remand order.
A Limassol criminal court sentenced a 28-year-old man to 10 years in prison on 21 October 2026 after he admitted trafficking a parcel imported from Greece holding about 8 kg of cannabis and nearly 2 kg of cocaine, which anti-drug officers handed him in a controlled delivery at a courier warehouse.
