Two jailed after Saint-Ouen road check leads to 19 kg of cannabis
BAC officers in Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis, stopped a car on 2 November 2026, found cannabis resin inside and then seized more than 17 kg of resin and nearly 2 kg of herb at a home. The driver and the home's 23-year-old occupant were jailed on 6 November 2026 and the passenger was acquitted.
Anti-crime officers of the brigade anticriminalité (BAC) in Saint-Ouen, in
Seine-Saint-Denis, stopped a car on the evening of 2 November 2026 after seeing
its driver commit traffic offences.[1]During the checks the officers found a
slab of cannabis resin in the car and arrested the driver, aged 20, and his
passenger, aged 21.[1]While the two men were held at the police station,
officers learned that a man had gone to one suspect’s home to clear it of drugs,
and they searched that home, where the drugs had been moved.[1]The search
seized just over 17 kilograms of cannabis resin and nearly two kilograms of
herbal cannabis.[1]Officers also found about 300 grams of cocaine at the
home.[1]The 23-year-old man whose home was searched was arrested in turn.[1]
The three men were tried in immediate-appearance proceedings before the judicial
court of Bobigny on 6 November 2026.[1]The driver was sentenced to three
years in prison, 18 months of it suspended subject to probation, and a detention
warrant was issued against him.[1]The 23-year-old was sentenced to one year
in prison and jailed.[1]The passenger was acquitted.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
3
Charged
3
Convicted
2
Acquitted
1
Sentenced
2
Cannabis
19 kg
Sites
1
Prison
3 years with 18 months suspended; 1 year
Cash confiscated
EUR 3,200
Agency
brigade anticriminalité (BAC) of Saint-Ouen
Agency type
Police, Court
Cannabis
Hashish (17 kg); Herbal cannabis (2 kg)
Setting
Vehicle, Home
Case stage
Sentenced
Sentence
Prison, Suspended sentence
Region
Seine-Saint-Denis
Sources
Actu17actu17.frFRSaint-Ouen : Un contrôle routier mène la BAC à près de 20 kg de cannabis et de la cocaïne
Open questions the AI reported
The slab of cannabis resin found in the car was not weighed, so the recorded weight covers only the drugs seized at the home.
The headline figure of nearly 20 kilograms covers cannabis and cocaine together; the report uses the cannabis-only weights of more than 17 kilograms of resin and nearly 2 kilograms of herb.
One account places the road check in the evening of 2 November 2026 and the other in the late afternoon.
The reports name no charges and give no detail of the court's findings beyond the sentences.
The reports do not say where the searched home stood, or whether it was in Saint-Ouen.
Both accounts rest on the same judicial source, and the reports do not say whether any of the three men appealed.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Crimesite: A second account reports the same BAC patrol intercepting the driver on 2 November 2026 after spotting traffic offences.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Crimesite: A second account gives the same quantities found at the home: more than 17 kilograms of resin, nearly two kilograms of herb and nearly 3,200 euros in cash.
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.