651 cannabis plants seized from a home grow in Le Marin, Martinique
Gendarmes of the Le Marin brigade searched a private home in the Fonds Gens Libres district of Martinique on 29 November 2025 and seized 651 cannabis plants, 230 grams of dried herb, an indoor grow set-up and a greenhouse behind a dog enclosure. The occupant, a man in his forties, was placed in provisional detention and the inquiry continued under the Fort-de-France prosecutor's office.
🇫🇷 Fonds Gens Libres, Le Marin, Martinique · France
Gendarmes of the Le Marin brigade went to a private home in the middle of
Saturday 29 November 2025 and found cannabis plants drying in one room.[1]The
gendarmes were enquiring into another matter when they made the seizure.[2]Behind an enclosure holding about ten malinois-type dogs they found a greenhouse
with several hundred cannabis plants.[1]
In total the gendarmes counted 651 cannabis plants and 230 grams of cannabis
herb, the amount of dried cannabis recorded for this seizure.[1]Inside the
house they found a complete indoor growing set-up, including ultraviolet lamps
and a ventilation system.[1]Officers also seized two category C hunting
rifles held illegally and more than 1,000 euros in cash.[1]The gendarmes said
the dogs were enough for the suspect to consider his illicit installation
perfectly secure.[1]The suspect was placed in provisional detention.[2]
France-Antilles likewise counted 651 cannabis plants and more than 230 grams of
herb, with lamps, ventilation, two rifles and more than 1,000 euros in cash.[3]Nothing at that stage linked the cultivation to an organised trafficking
network, and it could have been a personal activity to top up the man’s income.[4]Investigations in the cannabis matter continued under the direction of the
prosecutor’s office of the Fort-de-France judicial court.[1]The man, a man in
his forties, was placed under formal investigation and in provisional detention
over the alleged acts against one of his pupils.[5]A judicial investigation
was opened at the request of the Fort-de-France prosecutor’s office concerning
the judo club volunteer.[5]The Martinique judo league said the man held no
federal diploma allowing him to teach judo and had never been recognised as a
teacher by the league or the French federation.[5]
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No figure for the cultivation area or the street value of the plants was published.
The reports give no weight for the 651 plants; the 230-gramme figure covers only the dried cannabis found in the house.
Le Marin sources phrase the quantity differently, 230 grammes in one account and plus de 230 grammes in another, so 230 g is recorded as the stated figure.
The date 29 November and the upper 600s plant count are consistent across all accounts, but the exact time of the search and the number of dogs are given only approximately.
The suspect is identified only as a man in his forties; his name was not published.
The later accounts disagree slightly on his role in judo, calling him a professor and also a club volunteer without a federal diploma.
No sentence or court outcome for the cultivation was reported; the inquiry was directed by the Fort-de-France prosecutor's office and a judicial investigation had been opened.
The other inquiry is a separate matter; no finding has been made on those allegations and they are cited only to explain why the search took place.
The RCI and France-Antilles photos are credited only to the gendarmerie and could be the same image as the La 1ère gendarmerie photo; they are listed once each and near-identical duplicates can be merged at display time.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Martinique La 1ère: The home was in the Fonds Gens Libres district of Le Marin, a commune in southern Martinique.
Gendarmes arrested three people, two men and a woman aged 26 to 46, and found 36 cannabis plants in a hangar in Redessan, Gard, on 26 October 2026. All three were placed in police custody and brought before the Nîmes judicial court on 29 October, facing up to 10 years in prison.
Police ran two security operations in Pointe-à-Pitre on 28 and 29 September 2026, in Mortenol and at the Péricarpin and Cipolin housing estates, and arrested two people. Officers found about fifty sachets containing cocaine and cannabis herb during the second operation.
Police arrested five people during a 21 September 2026 operation in Bergevin, Pointe-à-Pitre, seizing more than 6 kg of cannabis herb from a dwelling and common areas. Four arrests were linked to suspected drug trafficking, while one person was wanted on an arrest warrant and another faced an order to leave France.
On the morning of 29 August 2026 police found about 1,000 indoor cannabis plants and roughly 80 kg of plants and harvest in a storage box at the rear of a hangar on rue d’Orchies in Landas, Nord; the SIPJ drugs squad is investigating and no suspects were named.
