Fugitive from Saint-Apollinaire drug check jailed one year; 56 g cannabis resin seized
Gendarmes stopped two suspected traffickers near Saint-Apollinaire in April 2026 and found 56 grams of cannabis resin along with heroin and cocaine. One fled the check, was caught on 26 October and has now been sentenced to a year in prison, while the driver got four months.
🇫🇷 Agglomeration of Dijon, Côte-d'Or (Saint-Apollinaire) · France
A gendarmerie brigade from Quetigny stopped a car with two occupants near
Saint-Apollinaire, in Côte-d’Or, on 17 April 2026, after a tip-off about drug
trafficking.[1]The search turned up 56 grams of cannabis resin, and also 600
grams of heroin, 36 grams of cocaine and about 100 euros in cash.[1]The
driver was detained, tried and sentenced to four months in prison.[1]
The second occupant fled the check and disappeared, and gendarmes found and
detained him on 26 October 2026.[1]The justice system has now sentenced him
to one year in prison for drug trafficking and for fleeing a gendarmerie check.[1]
One of the two suspected traffickers who escaped at Saint-Apollinaire has been
detained and sentenced.[1]
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Gendarmes of the Dijon company who detained two suspects in the Saint-Apollinaire drug case. Photo: Gendarmerie de BourgognePhoto details
A 28-year-old driver tested positive for cannabis after rear-ending a car and injuring its driver at Percy-en-Normandie on 2 January 2026. The Coutances court sentenced him on 10 November 2026 to six months suspended imprisonment and cancelled his driving licence.
The criminal court in Troyes sentenced 47-year-old Ramzi Nefzaoui to 14 months in firm prison for drug trafficking and issued an arrest warrant. The case began when gendarmes stopped his Renault Laguna at Barberey-Saint-Sulpice in December 2025 and found cannabis resin, herb, cash and a scale.
The Fontainebleau criminal court sentenced a driver to five years in prison, including two years firm, over a fatal 2021 crash at Souppes-sur-Loing in which his 20-year-old passenger died. The court heard he had drunk alcohol and smoked cannabis and was driving at 135 km/h in a 30 km/h zone.
Anti-crime police in Passamaïnty, Mayotte, broke up a drug deal on 4 November 2026 and seized 3.334 kg of cannabis and 8,495 euros in cash from a suspected stash flat; three people were arrested. Two young men were tried in Mamoudzou on 9 November and sentenced to 30 months with 12 suspended and a 15-month suspended term.