Nador port inspection seizes 20 tons of cannabis resin
Moroccan authorities seized 20 metric tons of cannabis resin during an inspection at the port of Nador in June 2009, the largest load ever seized there, the US embassy reported. The seizure came two months after a record 34-ton seizure at the port of Casablanca.
In June 2009 the Moroccan government seized20 metric tons of cannabis resin
during an inspection at the port of Nador, the largest load ever seized there.[1]The embassy’s counternarcotics report places the seizure two months after
customs and police seized and destroyed a record 34 metric tons of cannabis at
the port of Casablanca in April.[1]
Tighter port controls
The report says Moroccan forces were using helicopters, planes, speed boats,
mobile x-ray scanners, ultrasound equipment and satellites in the drug fight,
and that the mobile x-ray scanner had proven particularly effective.[1]Detection training and ultrasound equipment were critical to the success of
seizures such as Nador’s, according to the report.[1]
Case data
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Royal Gendarmerie officers in Kalaat Sraghna raided an olive grove bordering Marchouh commune, seizing hashish, cannabis ears and traditional spirit, and arrested one suspect. The gendarmes said investigations were continuing to identify and arrest the others involved.
Royal Gendarmerie officers in Larache province arrested two men caught crushing cannabis at Douar Mahir, in Bni Garfat commune, and seized 2.26 tonnes of kif, of which 1,360 kilograms were stems and 900 kilograms already crushed material. The two were held in police custody under a prosecutor's inquiry, and the seized cannabis was destroyed under a mixed commission.
Royal Gendarmerie officers arrested four men and seized more than two tonnes of kif and smuggled tobacco from three vehicles in the Aoulouz area of Taroudant province, Morocco. The four were held on the public prosecutor's orders for an inquiry into where the shipment came from and where it was going.
Police in Tinghir province stopped a car on the outskirts of Boumalne Dadès on 29 October 2026 and found 28 kilograms of chira, the cannabis resin known as hashish, hidden in its bodywork. Four people, two of them women, were arrested and remanded to Ouarzazate prison, and investigators suspect one woman's husband directed the network from his cell.
