Nădlac border: 21-year-old held with more than 7 kg of cannabis on Spain–Romania bus
Romanian border police and DIICOT prosecutors detained a 21-year-old man on the evening of 12 October 2026 as he entered Romania at Nădlac on an international passenger bus from Spain with more than seven kilograms of cannabis intended for sale. Prosecutors ordered his detention on 13 October and asked an Arad court for 30 days of preventive arrest.
🇷🇴 Nădlac border crossing, Arad · Romania
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Arrested
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Cannabis
7 kg
Border police at Nădlac, working with organised-crime officers in Arad under DIICOT
prosecutors, caught a 21-year-old passenger on an international coach from Spain on the
evening of 12 October 2026.[1][2]He was carrying more than seven kilograms of cannabis
meant for sale, the Romanian Border Police said.[1]
On 13 October DIICOT-Arad ordered his detention for international and domestic trafficking
in risk drugs and asked the Arad rights court to hold him in preventive arrest for 30 days.[1][2]Mediafax reported the same route and quantity and said the man had been taken into
custody on Tuesday after the Monday night stop.[2]
Both releases stressed that suspects remain presumed innocent with full procedural guarantees.[1][2]
Official statements give only "more than seven kilograms" without a precise weight or the suspect's name.
Mediafax says the seizure happened on Monday 12 October while the border police text describes the flagrant catch on the evening of 12.10.2026; neither report described the packaging.
Romania's Constanța appeal court sentenced DZ to seven years for bringing 3 g of cannabis and four MDMA tablets into the country. On 3 November 2026 the EU Court of Justice held that the severity gap with Dutch penalties alone cannot justify refusing his surrender.
On 3 November 2026 the Constanta Court of Appeal annulled American rapper Wiz Khalifa's final nine-month prison sentence for smoking cannabis on stage at the Beach Please festival in Costinesti and cancelled the prison warrant. Prosecutors' DIICOT appeal will be retried on 12 November 2026, with steps for Khalifa to join by videoconference.
The Iasi Court of Appeal finally sentenced three Vaslui men to 4 years, 6 years and 3 years and 6 months for trafficking cannabis alongside MDMA, cathinones and amphetamine. Police seized 6.41 grams of cannabis plus MDMA tablets and confiscated 1,000 lei from cannabis sales.
DIICOT Cluj and organised-crime police detained two men aged 49 and 51 on 22 October 2026 after documenting an outdoor cannabis grow in Florești meant for sale. Searches seized 20 plants up to three metres tall plus packaged cannabis; a judge ordered 30-day preventive arrest for both.
