Saintes dealer jailed 3 years with 430 g cannabis haul
A dealer in Saintes was sentenced to three years in prison after two police checks found cannabis alongside cocaine, heroin and other drugs. The car search yielded 230 g of cannabis resin and 200 g of herb, for a recorded cannabis total of 430 g.
Saintes police stopped a man and the woman accompanying him on 8 October 2026
after judging their behaviour suspicious.[1]The man was smoking a joint when
he admitted that his bag contained drugs.[1]Placed in custody, the man
admitted to investigators that he acted as a dealer.[1]A court sentenced him
to three years in firm prison with an immediate committal warrant.[1]He was
also banned from appearing in Charente-Maritime.[1]
Police seized130 g of cocaine, 50 ecstasy tablets, 5 LSD blotters and 870 g of
heroin from his bag.[1]The woman beside him had five ecstasy tablets on her.[1]A search of his car on 23 September also recovered heroin alongside 10 g of
cocaine, 230 g of cannabis resin, 200 g of herbal cannabis, crack pipes and
4,730 euros in cash.[1]The cannabis part of the car seizure was 230 grams of
resin and 200 grams of herb.[2]
Saintes police made two drug seizures targeting the same man within fifteen
days.[1]Public-security officers made the 8 October stop as they crossed the
streets of Saintes.[2]The earlier interception was made by the night brigade
while the man was driving a car.[2]The criminal court ordered his
imprisonment for three years with immediate committal and a ban from
Charente-Maritime.[2]
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Actu La Rochelleactu.frFREn deux semaines, les policiers de Saintes saisissent une quantité de drogue complètement folle sur le même revendeur
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No separate sentencing date was published; 29 October 2026 is the publication date used for dating, while Actu La Rochelle had already reported the sentence on 28 October 2026.
The car heroin weight is reported as 80 g by La Nouvelle République and 380 g by Actu La Rochelle, so that heroin amount is omitted while the agreed cannabis, cocaine, pipes and cash remain.
The only page image is explicitly an illustration photo, so no event photo is linked as media.
The woman found with five ecstasy tablets is not reported as arrested, charged or sentenced.
The sentenced man is not named in these accounts.
The 4,730 euros was cash found in the car, not a valuation of the drugs, and is excluded from value figures.
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.