14 arrested in Port Said as police seize 18 kg of hashish and hypothyl
Egypt's General Administration for Drug Control detained 14 people, two of them women, in three Port Said police districts on suspicion of dealing drugs, and seized hashish and other substances worth about 3.5 million Egyptian pounds. Hashish and hypothyl came to 18 kg, a total that excludes the Ice, heroin and tramadol found in the same arrests.
🇪🇬 Al-Zohour, Al-Dawahi and Awal El-Ganoub police districts, Port Said · Egypt
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Arrested
14
Cannabis
18 kg
Agencies
General Administration for Drug Control, Port Said Security Directorate
Egypt’s General Administration for Drug Control arrested people accused of
trading and promoting drugs in three police districts of Port Said.[1]The
three entries name 14 people in all, two of them women, detained in the
Al-Zohour, Al-Dawahi and Awal El-Ganoub police districts of Port Said.[1]
Three men in Al-Zohour were holding 4 kg of hashish, a kilogram each of Ice,
heroin and hypothyl, a quantity of voodoo, and a shotgun with bullets.[1]A
man in Al-Dawahi was holding 3 kg of hashish, and a man in Al-Zohour 2 kg of
hashish.[1]Three men in Awal El-Ganoub held 5 kg of hashish and a kilogram of
heroin.[1]The article also records 7 kg of hypothyl, a drug it reports by
weight but does not describe, in two Al-Zohour cases.[1]
Police put the value of all the seized drugs at about 3.5 million Egyptian
pounds.[1]Police said legal measures had been taken and the suspects were
being brought before the Public Prosecution.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
14
Cannabis
18 kg
Value (official estimate)
EGP 3,500,000
Agencies
General Administration for Drug Control; Port Said Security Directorate
Agency type
Anti-narcotics agency, Police
Cannabis
Hashish (11 kg); Other cannabis product (7 kg)
Activity
Sale, Possession
Case stage
Under investigation
Region
Port Said Governorate
Sources
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Open questions the AI reported
The article gives no separate date for the arrests; 4 May 2024 is its publication date and is used as the incident date.
The article's figures do not reconcile: the first Al-Zohour entry gives 4 kg of hashish, while the later entries add up to 12 kg, so the report counts 12 kg of hashish.
The three detention entries name two more people than the headline's 14, so the headline figure is used; the article does not explain the gap.
The article reports hypothyl (الهيدرو) in kilograms but gives no account of what it is; its stated 7 kg is added to the cannabis total, which may overstate it if hypothyl is not cannabis.
Voodoo, Ice, heroin and tramadol weights are excluded from the cannabis figure.
The 3.5 million-pound figure covers all seized drugs and cannot be attributed to cannabis alone.
Some hypothyl, voodoo and tramadol amounts are given only as "a quantity", with no figure.
No charges or court outcome were reported; police only said the suspects were being referred to the Public Prosecution.
The suspects were identified only as unemployed people with criminal records, with no names given.
Only one accessible source for this operation was found after searching in Arabic and English.
Security agencies in El-Khusus, Qalyubia, detained 11 people in a campaign launched after social-media posts about drug dealing. Officers said the suspects were carrying hashish together with heroin, ice and powdered drugs.
Cairo detectives arrested two unemployed men in El-Marg with 37 slabs of hashish, a shotgun and cartridges after a tip that they were distributing the drug. The two admitted holding the hashish to sell it.
Luxor police arrested four men accused of stealing motorcycles and hiding them in Al-Zanaqta, recovering five bikes. Officers also seized hashish of unstated weight and half a kilogram of shabu, and prosecutors ordered the suspects held for four days.
Egypt's Interior Ministry said its traffic campaigns tested 1,045 drivers in 24 hours and 44 were positive for narcotics use, with no substance named. A parallel campaign on work zones along the Regional Ring Road tested 156 drivers, reported seven positives and detained seven people wanted under nine court rulings.