Noi Bai customs find 25.4 kg of cannabis in a Paris-bound suitcase
Customs officers at Noi Bai International Airport found about 25.4 kg of dried herb believed to be cannabis in a transit passenger's checked suitcase on 25 October 2026. The passenger, Jesus Sanchez Gomez, said he was paid €4,000 to carry it from Cambodia to France, and customs handed him and the case to Hanoi's drug police.
🇻🇳 Noi Bai International Airport, Hanoi · Vietnam
- Arrested
- 1
- Cannabis
- 25.4 kg
Customs officers of the Regional Customs Branch I (Chi cục Hải quan khu vực I)
were screening transit baggage at Noi Bai International Airport on 25 October
2026 when they found a black checked suitcase.[1] The suitcase was checked
through on a connecting itinerary and booked on flight VN19, which was due to
leave Noi Bai for Paris Charles de Gaulle at 23:50 that night.[1] The airport
task force identified the passenger, Jesus Sanchez Gomez, as the owner of the
checked bag.[1]
Inside the suitcase were two packages measuring about 40 by 70 cm, holding dried
herb believed to be cannabis and weighing about 25.4 kg in total.[1]
Questioned by the task force, Gomez admitted that he had been paid €4,000 to
carry the goods from Cambodia, through Vietnam, to France.[1]
Customs handed the entire case file, the man and the cannabis to PC04, the drug
crime investigation office of the Hanoi City police, to continue the
investigation.[1]
Sources
- Hải quan khu vực I phát hiện 25,4kg cần sa và hơn 2,5kg ketamine. Thuế & Hải quan Online - Tạp chí Kinh tế - Tài chính, 30 October 2026. In Vietnamese.
Open questions the AI reported
- The article describes the dried herb as suspected cannabis and gives no laboratory result confirming it.
- No estimated value was published for the 25.4 kg of cannabis.
- The article does not say what charge the passenger faces or whether a court has taken up the case.
- Only one full account of the case could be opened for this report; no separate statement from the customs branch was available to read.
- The same article reports a separate 2.5 kg ketamine parcel case from September 2026, a different drug and event left out of this report.
