A private home on Marie-Galante was searched on 22 October 2025 and found to hold a cannabis growing set-up, with 283 grams of herb and 13 cannabis plants.[1] Officers also took dried branches and a complete grow room from the home.[2] Customs officers checked a shop on the island and recorded the illegal holding of narcotics and manufactured tobacco said to have been smuggled in.[1] That check yielded 20 grams of cannabis herb, 2,193 cigarettes and 1 kg of loose tobacco, known locally as high leaf.[1]

The operation was run by the Groupe d’action de l’État sur le littoral, a state coastal action group set up under the prefect of Guadeloupe, together with gendarmes of Grand-Bourg, the Pointe-à-Pitre nautical brigade, motorcyclists of the departmental flow-control squadron, a dog team and customs officers of Marie-Galante.[1] RCI reported that the operation ran under the authority of the prefect of Guadeloupe.[3] At sea, the nautical brigade checked about ten commercial, pleasure and fishing vessels and the ferries linking the island with Grande-Terre.[1]

The authorities presented the operation as part of their effort to reinforce the state’s presence on the coastline and fight all forms of crime, on land and at sea.[2]