Three jailed 30 months for 30 kg cannabis landed at Saint-François
The Pointe-à-Pitre criminal court sentenced three men to 30 months of firm imprisonment on 23 February 2026 over the night landing of cannabis at Anse à la barque, Saint-François, one of them a departmental council employee. OFAST officers had arrested four people on 12 January with about 243 kg of cannabis herb and resin and two handguns.
🇫🇷 Anse à la Barque, Saint-François, Guadeloupe (sentenced at the Pointe-à-Pitre criminal court) · France
On the afternoon of Monday 23 February 2026, the Pointe-à-Pitre criminal court
sentenced three defendantsprosecuted over the landing of about 30 kilograms of
cannabis at Saint-François.[1]The court gave each of the three men 30 months
of firm imprisonment and ordered that they stay in detention.[1]One of the
two longest-standing friends among the defendants works for the conseil
départemental, Guadeloupe’s departmental council.[1]The court added a
five-year ban from French territory to the Dominican defendant’s sentence.[1]
The cannabis was landed at night on the beach of Anse à la barque, in
Saint-François, in early January 2026.[1]OFAST, France’s anti-narcotics
office, made the arrests, and the Dominican defendant told the court he had
collected the drugs in Roseau, Dominica, for money he owed and to treat his sick
mother.[1]The two other defendants denied involvement in cannabis trafficking
and said they had come to the beach around 1 a.m. by chance.[1]Prosecutors
said phone location data and messages about being careful, including the remark
that gendarmes were too busy with the carnival, supported the charges.[1]
OFAST 971 officers, supported by the local RAID unit, interrupted the landing in
the night of 11 to 12 January 2026 and arrested four people.[2]The seizure
totalled 239.82 kg of cannabis herb and 3.46 kg of cannabis resin, along with
two loaded handguns.[2]Three of the four arrested were brought before
prosecutors and presented for immediate trial on 16 January, and one asked for
time to prepare his defence, so the case was adjourned to 23 February.[3]RCI
reported that 2 Guadeloupeans and 1 Dominican national aged 23 to 39 were the
three defendants, held in pre-trial detention pending the hearing.[3]France-Antilles Guadeloupe reported the same operation and total seizure of
nearly 250 kilos.[4]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The sentencing article describes the load as about 30 kilos of cannabis, while the January seizure reports give the exact total of 239.82 kg of herb and 3.46 kg of resin; the report uses the police figures and records the smaller figure in the text.
The four arrested people were detained, but only three were prosecuted and sentenced; no outcome was reported for the fourth.
Only one source covered the 23 February sentencing; the January seizure accounts come from the same police operation and were published before the trial.
No value for the cannabis, no fine and no custody term beyond the prison sentence were published.
The full names of the three defendants were not published.
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.