Seoul agency's first case: 2.5 kg cannabis mailed from abroad
Seoul investigators arrested a Southeast Asian national after tracking 2.5 kg of cannabis hidden in international mail through a controlled delivery. They transferred him in custody to the Incheon prosecution office on 23 October 2026 in the new agency's first detained transfer.
🇰🇷 Seoul · South Korea
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Arrested
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Cannabis
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The Seoul Serious Crime Investigation Agency’s narcotics bureau transferred a
Southeast Asian national identified only as A in custody to the Incheon District
Prosecution Office on 23 October 2026 on suspicion of violating the Narcotics
Control Act.[1][2]Investigators made the emergency arrest through controlled
delivery, delivering the customs-intercepted drugs normally to track the actual
recipient.[1]
The agency applied for a detention warrant on 17 October because of the scale of
the smuggling and risk of evidence destruction and flight, the prosecution
office requested it the next day, and the court issued it the same day for those
reasons.[1]The transfer was the agency’s first case of handing a detained
suspect to a prosecution office since its launch.[3][2]
In its first-month tally, the Seoul office counted three drug cases among four
total transfers to the prosecution service, including this 23 October cannabis
transfer.[4]
The exact place and date of the emergency arrest were not disclosed beyond the Seoul office investigation and the 17-18 October warrant sequence; 23 October is the transfer date used as the incident date.
No street value, plant count, or court outcome beyond the custody transfer was reported.
The submitted overview also notes two additional smuggling detentions on 30 October involving cannabis and methamphetamine, a separate mixed event left out here.
The Suwon home-grow detention of two people mentioned in the same overview matches existing report seoul-suwon-scia-home-grow-arrest but adds no new detail here.
No event photo was available; the submitted and corroborating pages show only agency buildings and an unrelated thumbnail, so no media entry is listed.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in 연합뉴스: A was accused of hiding 2.5 kg of cannabis in international mail to bring it into South Korea.
The submitted article focuses on the E-drug system transfer and gives no further detail on this cannabis transfer beyond the amount, method, nationality and dates already recorded.
The only topical image on the submitted page shows the agency building in Jung-gu, Seoul, not the seizure or transfer, so no media entry is listed.
Suwon's Serious Crime Investigation Agency sent two men in their 20s to prosecutors in custody on 5 November 2026 over a cannabis grow on the fourth floor of a Seongbuk building in Seoul. Officers seized 1.1 kg of dried cannabis and 33 growing plants, valued by the agency at 170 million won.
Arrested 2Charged 2Plants destroyed 33Cannabis 1.1 kg
Prosecutors asked the Sokcho Branch of the Chuncheon District Court to sentence former Sinawe vocalist Kim Bada to three years in prison for repeat cannabis possession and smoking. The court set sentencing for 25 November 2026 after Kim admitted the charges.
Suwon prosecutors indicted rapper Bill Stax, 46, without detention on 16 October 2026 for violating the Narcotics Control Act. He is accused of buying cannabis and cannabis jelly from a dealer in November 2025 and smoking marijuana.
The joint drug headquarters indicted 12 people, six of them detained, after a four-month sweep of home and factory grows; those charged included a hip-hop group member, an English teacher and a composer. Investigators seized about 3 kg of cannabis, 39 plants and cannabis jelly, and said ordinary residents were treating home growing as an entry drug.
