Lebanon police arrest five in four operations; hashish and marijuana bags seized in Sabra
Mount Lebanon's judicial police, part of Lebanon's Internal Security Forces, arrested five people in four operations in Beirut and its southern suburbs on 6 and 7 November 2026. In Sabra they found a stolen-motorcycle store with six bikes, 23 bags of marijuana and 24 bags of hashish; a separate arrest in Roueiss was for suspected drug dealing.
🇱🇧 Sabra, Tohwitat al-Ghadir, Roueiss and Bir Hassan, Beirut and its southern suburbs · Lebanon
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The judicial police unit of the Mount Lebanon regional gendarmerie, part of
Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces, arrested five people in four separate
operations in different parts of Beirut and its southern suburbs.[1]
The first operation, acting on information about a store of stolen motorcycles
in Sabra, found six motorcycles and arrested a man born in 2004 who said he was
Syrian.[1]In the same Sabra store police seized 23 bags of marijuana and 24
bags of hashish, along with about 400 narcotic pills, other varied pills, mobile
phones and sums of money; the ministry gave no weight for the bags.[1]
On 7 November a patrol caught two Lebanese men, born in 1998 and 2003, stealing
a motorcycle in Tohwitat al-Ghadir and seized two motorcycles and a quantity of
hashish from them.[1]On 6 November police arrested a Syrian man born in 2000
in Roueiss on suspicion of dealing drugs, seizing hashish, pills and materials
suspected to be narcotics, packing tools, a motorcycle and a phone holding
videos of items offered for sale with their prices.[1]A fourth operation in
Bir Hassan arrested a man born in 2004 held on an arrest warrant for motorcycle
theft, with a mobile phone seized from him.[1]
The ministry said the detainees and the seized items were handed to the relevant
units for legal action on the instructions of the competent judiciary.[2]
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The Interior Ministry's handout picture for the report on the four Mount Lebanon judicial police operations; it carries no separate caption or credit.Photo details
The ministry gives no weights for the 23 marijuana bags or the 24 hashish bags, or for the hashish quantities seized in Tohwitat al-Ghadir and Roueiss, so no kilogram figure is recorded.
Only the Tohwitat al-Ghadir arrest (7 November) and the Roueiss arrest (6 November) carry dates; the Sabra and Bir Hassan operations are undated and are treated as part of the same November 2026 round.
No charges, prosecutor decisions or court outcomes were reported beyond the referral of detainees to the competent units.
The pills and materials described only as suspected narcotics in Sabra and Roueiss are not counted as cannabis, and the marijuana bags cannot be separately weighed from the other items found with them.
The Ad-Diyar article reproduces the Internal Security Forces statement; the ministry's own page was opened, gives the same text, and its handout photo carries no caption saying what it depicts.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in المديرية العامة لقوى الأمن الداخلي: Police said the older of the two was also suspected of robbing a Beirut municipal police officer of a phone, a wallet and money in Burj al-Barajneh, and of several motorcycle thefts in Beirut.
Lebanon's Internal Security Forces arrested eight people from several drug-dealing networks in ambushes and raids on different dates in Bourj al-Barajneh, Nabaa, Zouk, Ouzai, Tyre, Tripoli, Dekwaneh and Sabtiyeh. Officers seized hashish, marijuana and other drugs along with 18 motorcycles and several firearms, but published no weights for any of the drugs.
Lebanese army units detained 28 people in raids and checkpoints across several regions. At the al-Sufri checkpoint in Baalbek, soldiers arrested a man for shooting and seized a quantity of hashish from him.
Lebanese Army intelligence arrested a suspected drug dealer in an ambush in Jabal Mohsen, seizing more than 10 kg of hashish from his possession. The suspect and the seized hashish were held pending the necessary legal procedures in accordance with due process.
The army arrested Nouh Zeaiter, a US-sanctioned Captagon and cannabis trafficker, at Kneiseh in Baalbek-Hermel. He had admitted cannabis cultivation and trafficking. The arrest was one of several against Bekaa networks in 2025.
