Pau customs seize 255.94 kg of cannabis in the Ossau valley in five days
Between 22 and 27 April 2026 the Pau customs brigade seized 255.94 kg of cannabis in two Ossau valley stops — 100.42 kg left in a crashed car and 155.52 kg of resin in a van compartment — valued at more than two million euros at retail.
In five days at the end of April 2026 the Pau customs brigade made two cannabis seizures in the
Ossau valley, totalling 255.94 kg.[1][2]Customs valued the load at more than two million euros on
the illicit retail market.[1][2]
On 22 April, during a control, a car turned hard toward Spain when officers appeared.[1][2]It was
later found crashed and empty; the boot held 100.42 kg of cannabis.[1][2]The occupants were not
caught.[2]
On 27 April, again in the valley, officers stopped a utility vehicle.[1][2]A drug dog marked under
the rear bench; dismantling revealed a built-in box holding 155.52 kg of cannabis resin.[1][2]
Photos and video
Open suitcase packed with shrink-wrapped brown resin blocks marked with blue cannabis-leaf stickers.Photo details
No arrests are reported; the first driver fled toward Spain and was not found.
The retail value is only stated as more than two million euros.
Direct photo addresses from the customs Flickr album linked in the press release could not be recovered here; France 3 published a customs handout of packaged resin.
Customs officers seized 40 kg of cannabis products from a Spanish UPS truck at the Fontaine toll on the A36 on 9 November 2026. Two Spain-based delivery drivers, aged 36 and 46, were detained after admitting they acted as “mules” for a load collected in Madrid.
Police seized about 100 kilos of drugs, mainly cannabis with some cocaine, from a nourrice stash flat supplying deal points in Vénissieux's Joliot-Curie sector. The reports give only a combined weight, so no cannabis-only quantity can be recorded.
Six people were taken into custody after searches across Corrèze and Saône-et-Loire linked to the Kannathera CBD chain; police seized 444.1 kg of cannabis, 190.2 kg of it resin. The Brive prosecutor's office said four suspects were placed under judicial supervision pending trial and two others were summoned to court.
On 3 November 2026 a Paris court ended a mother's social-housing lease after several kilos of cannabis and cash were found in her son's bedroom, put at 6.5 kg. The court accepted she paid rent, had no neighbour complaints and knew nothing of her son's activity.
