178 cannabis plants seized from a Le Moule grower; one summonsed
Gendarmes searched a home in Le Moule, Guadeloupe, on 7 March 2018 and found 178 cannabis plants in a working grow room, seizing them and growing equipment from a cultivator. After police custody the suspect was summonsed to appear before a judge, and no outcome of that hearing was reported.
The search followed several months of investigation by the gendarmerie’s
research brigade (brigade de recherches), reinforced by a surveillance and
intervention platoon (PSIG) and a dog team.[1]
The gendarmes seized 178 plants from a cultivator and found equipment at the
home, including the working grow room.[1]The plants had been tended by their
owner.[1]The crop was described as a 178-plant cannabis culture meant “to
help out friends”.[1]
The suspect was placed in police custody after the search.[1]The Le Moule
gendarmes called it a good seizure.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The article gives no calendar date for the raid; it says only "mercredi dernier", and 7 March 2018 is the Wednesday before its 13 March publication date.
No weight, area, number of grow lamps or equipment list was published, so no kilograms or hectares can be recorded.
No charge, hearing date or court outcome was reported; the account ends with the summons to appear before a judge.
The suspect is not named and no age was published.
Only one accessible source covered this raid; no gendarmerie statement or second outlet account could be opened.
The page carries only an RCI generic image and thumbnails from unrelated later articles, so no photo or video of this raid is included.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in RCI Guadeloupe: Gendarmes searched a home in Le Moule, Guadeloupe, on Wednesday 7 March 2018 and found 178 cannabis plants and a grow room in full working order.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in RCI Guadeloupe: Officers went to the home of a man suspected of growing narcotics.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in RCI Guadeloupe: At the end of his police custody the grower was handed a summons to appear in court rather than being held.
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.
