Nuuk court jails traveller for 11 months over 2.8 kg of hash
A 29-year-old man was sentenced to 11 months in prison by Sermersooq District Court on 21 February 2026, the day after customs officers at Nuuk Airport found about 2.8 kilograms of hash in his baggage. He admitted the possession without reservation and was released after the sentence to serve it later.
Customs officers at Nuuk Airport stopped a passenger on Friday 20 February 2026 and found about
2.8 kilograms of hash in his baggage.[1]The man, 29, admitted the possession without
reservation, so Sermersooq District Court was able to decide the case with a straksdom, an
immediate sentence, the next day, Saturday 21 February: 11 months in the anstalt, Greenland’s
prison.[1]After the sentence he was released so that he can serve the term later.[1]
The report, based on the Greenland Police duty officer’s account, gives no origin for the flight
and does not say how the hash was packed or what it was worth.[1]
Case data
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Greenland police arrested a 54-year-old man at Ilulissat Airport on 29 October 2026, the day the new international airport opened, after officers found narcotics in his suitcase. Ritzau reported the find was about half a kilogram of hash and that he had arrived on Air Greenland's first direct flight from Copenhagen.
Customs officers at Nuuk Airport found 5.4 kilograms of hash hidden in a passenger's suitcase on 13 October 2026, Greenland police said, and arrested the man, who had just arrived from Denmark. He was to be brought before the district court the next day charged with smuggling hash.
A 27-year-old man was arrested at Nuuk Airport on 10 September 2026 after customs officers found about a kilogram of hash on him as he arrived from Denmark on his way to Sisimiut. The prosecutor sought an immediate sentence, and police said he was known to them from another case; no outcome was reported.
Greenland police and customs officers arrested a man as he was about to leave Nuuk on a coastal passenger ship with more than a kilogram of hash on 5 December 2025. The district court gave him an immediate sentence of five months' unconditional detention the next day, and he was released to serve it later.