Saint-Brieuc court jails 23-year-old for 9 kg cannabis trafficking
A 23-year-old cannabis dealer from Saint-Brieuc was sentenced at Saint-Brieuc on 11 July 2025 to three years in prison, 18 months suspended and the rest immediate, for trafficking and illegal possession of weapons. Searches after his arrest in Rennes on 9 July found 9 kg of cannabis, three vehicles and 2,500 euros in cash, and two resellers were also arrested.
A 23-year-old man from Saint-Brieuc was sentenced at Saint-Brieuc on 11 July
2025 to three years in prison, 18 months of them suspended, with immediate
incarceration, for drug trafficking and illegal possession of weapons.[1]Ouest-France reported that the 23-year-old was jailed in Brittany for drug
trafficking on Friday 11 July 2025.[2]He was arrested at his home in Rennes
on Wednesday 9 July 2025.[1]Two of his resellers, a couple, were arrested at
the same time, so that three people in all were placed in police custody.[1]None of the three had a criminal record.[1]The couple has not yet been tried
and will be summoned to court.[1]
He admitted the offences and was tried under comparution sur reconnaissance
préalable de culpabilité (CRPC), the French guilty-plea procedure.[1]The
searches turned up 9 kg of cannabis and police seized three vehicles, two
Volkswagen Golf GTIs and a Mercedes E-Class.[1]The county court ordered the
confiscation of 2,500 euros in cash seized during the same searches.[1]
Ouest-France reported that police had watched him since March 2025, suspecting
him of running a trade in cannabis herb and resin in Côtes-d’Armor and
Ille-et-Vilaine.[2]The Saint-Brieuc police drug squad began the investigation
in March 2025 from a tip passed by a police service during another inquiry, the
Saint-Brieuc prosecutor’s office told Le Télégramme on 11 July 2025.[1]Investigators found that he supplied himself with cannabis herb and resin from
northern France and Belgium.[1]He sold cannabis across Côtes-d’Armor and
Ille-et-Vilaine with the help of resellers.[1]He had recently started a
car-rental business so that his lifestyle would not draw attention.[1]Ouest-France reported that he was arrested near Rennes on Wednesday 9 July 2025
and sentenced that Friday at Saint-Brieuc.[2]
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Detention cells at the Saint-Brieuc police station, the picture published with the report that a 23-year-old man was jailed after his arrest near Rennes. Photo: David Ademas / Ouest-FrancePhoto details
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
3
Charged
1
Cannabis
9 kg
Prison
3 years, 18 months suspended
Value (official estimate)
EUR 2,500
Agency type
Police, Prosecutor
Cannabis
Hashish
Activity
Trafficking
Setting
Prison
Case stage
Sentenced
Sentence
Prison
Route
Belgium → France
Sources
Le Télégrammeweb.archive.orgFRIl trafiquait du cannabis en Bretagne et détenait des armes : un dealer de 23 ans incarcéré, 9 kg de drogue saisis
Ouest-Franceouest-france.frFRGo fast, 9 kg de cannabis saisis : un homme incarcéré pour trafic de stupéfiants en Bretagne
Open questions the AI reported
The two resellers had not yet appeared in court, so their charges and any sentence remain unknown.
The reports give no split between cannabis herb and cannabis resin within the 9 kg.
It is not stated whether the 9 kg was found only at the main suspect's home or across the searches of all three suspects.
No street value for the 9 kg was published.
Le Télégramme's headline calls the haul '9 kg de drogue' while the body gives '9 kg de cannabis'; the figure is recorded as cannabis only.
Ouest-France's headline calls him a 'go fast' operator, but its opened text describes a dealer supplied with herb and resin from northern France and Belgium, not a convoy courier.
The direct image address of the Le Télégramme picture of the three arrested people could not be recovered from the archived page, so that photo is left out of the media list rather than linked to the article page.
Ouest-France's article is paywalled after its first paragraphs, so any further facts it reports are unknown.
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.