5.7 kg cannabis resin seized in night A9 check near Salses
Gendarmes stopped hundreds of vehicles at a night checkpoint on the A9 at Salses-le-Chateau and arrested a motorist carrying 5.7 kg of cannabis resin from Toulouse toward Perpignan. Two wanted people were also found during the multi-agency operation.
🇫🇷 Salses-le-Chateau rest area, A9 motorway · France
On the night of 15 to 16 October 2026, a large road-checkpoint operation took
place on the A9 motorway in the France-to-Spain direction.[1]From 11 pm, the
motorway was blocked and all vehicles were redirected to the Salses-le-Chateau
rest area.[1]The departmental flow-control squadron led military personnel, a
dog team and other state services including the biodiversity office, tax offices
and Urssaf.[1]
Officers checked 250 vehicles carrying 320 people at the rest area.[1]Officers arrested one person found with 5.7 kg of cannabis resin.[1]The unit
commander said the 5.7 kg of cannabis resin was travelling from Toulouse toward
Perpignan.[2]Five other people tested positive for drugs and two for alcohol.[1]Three more people were caught holding about five to ten grams of drugs
each.[1]
Officers also found two wanted people in their files, including one sought under
a court judgment with six months in prison to serve.[2]Traffic in the
France-to-Spain direction was diverted for three hours without interruption.[2]
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Source: L'IndépendantGendarmes conducting the large-scale night check at the A9 rest area where traffic was diverted. Photo: Emilien Vicens / Actu PerpignanPhoto details
L'Indépendantlindependant.frFRInterpellation d’une personne recherchée, 5,7 kg de résine de cannabis saisis… Une vaste opération fructueuse des forces de l’ordre sur l’autoroute A9
Actu Perpignanactu.frFRLa circulation déviée, tous les véhicules arrêtés... C'était quoi ce contrôle hors du commun sur l'autoroute A9 ?
Open questions the AI reported
Actu Perpignan reports nearly 300 vehicles checked over three hours, while L'Independant reports 250 vehicles and 320 people; its full text describes a four-hour operation ending at 3 am, but the accessible capture ends at a subscriber paywall.
The accessible capture of the L'Independant page ends at a subscriber paywall, so its account of the wanted-person arrest could not be quoted from that capture and the two wanted people are sourced to Actu Perpignan.
The small 5 to 10 gram drug holdings are not identified as cannabis, so only the 5.7 kg of resin is recorded as cannabis seized.
No names, charges, custody decisions or court outcomes were reported for the arrested people.
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