2 men jailed in Mende over cannabis resin, cocaine stash
Police in Mende arrested two men on 13 November 2026 and both were sentenced the same day in a drug case involving cannabis resin, cocaine and ketamine. A 45-year-old stash-keeper received 14 months with five suspended plus a 1,000-euro fine, and a 20-year-old received six months for repeat drug use.
Police in Mende arrested two men on 13 November 2026 after an investigation by
the town’s police station.[1]The first man, aged 45, was suspected of acting
as a “nourrice”, storing drugs on behalf of a trafficker.[1]He admitted guilt
through the CRPC guilty-plea procedure and was sentenced to 14 months in prison,
five of them suspended on probation, plus a 1,000-euro fine.[1]The second
man, aged 20, was also arrested in the same inquiry.[1]He was sentenced to
six months in firm prison for repeat drug use.[1]
The older man stored cannabis together with cocaine and ketamine.[1]Police
seizedcannabis resin along with cocaine and ketamine.[1]Both arrests and
both sentences took place on the same day.[1]
The Mende police station led the investigation that produced the two arrests.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
2
Sentenced
2
Prison
14 months, including 5 suspended; 6 months
Fine
EUR 1,000
Agency
Commissariat de police de Mende
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Hashish
Charge
usage de stupéfiants en récidive
Case stage
Sentenced
Region
Lozère
Sources
ICI Gard Lozèreici.frFRCannabis, cocaïne et kétamine : en Lozère, deux hommes condamnés dans une affaire de stupéfiants - ICI
Open questions the AI reported
No weight, plant count, area or value was published for the seized cannabis resin, cocaine or ketamine.
No precise address in Mende and no court name were given for the arrests and the CRPC hearing.
The alleged trafficker on whose behalf the 45-year-old stored the drugs was not identified and no further charges were reported.
The account rests on a single outlet report of the police investigation.
Customs at the Le Boulou toll on the A9 seized 30 kilograms of cannabis from a Spanish-registered car in the night of 8 November 2026, on the Spain-to-France carriageway. The driver, tried in a plea-bargaining hearing, was sentenced by the Perpignan court on 10 November 2026 to one year in prison, a five-year ban from France and a 52,000 euro customs fine.
A 28-year-old driver tested positive for cannabis after rear-ending a car and injuring its driver at Percy-en-Normandie on 2 January 2026. The Coutances court sentenced him on 10 November 2026 to six months suspended imprisonment and cancelled his driving licence.
The criminal court in Troyes sentenced 47-year-old Ramzi Nefzaoui to 14 months in firm prison for drug trafficking and issued an arrest warrant. The case began when gendarmes stopped his Renault Laguna at Barberey-Saint-Sulpice in December 2025 and found cannabis resin, herb, cash and a scale.
The Fontainebleau criminal court sentenced a driver to five years in prison, including two years firm, over a fatal 2021 crash at Souppes-sur-Loing in which his 20-year-old passenger died. The court heard he had drunk alcohol and smoked cannabis and was driving at 135 km/h in a 30 km/h zone.
