Father and daughter held over taxi dealing; 483 g hashish and 142 g marijuana seized
ISF officers ambushed and arrested a Lebanese man and his daughter in Sin el Fil on 21 October 2026 over drug dealing from a taxi in Keserwan and Metn. The Central Narcotics Bureau said it seized 483 grams of hashish and 142 grams of marijuana, alongside other drugs.
🇱🇧 Sin el Fil (Sanay el Fil), Metn, Mount Lebanon
Arrested
2
Cannabis
625 g
Agency
Lebanese Internal Security Forces (Central Narcotics Bureau
A patrol of the Central Narcotics Bureauarrested a Lebanese man in an ambush in
the Sin el Fil area on 21 October 2026, catching him in the act of dealing drugs
on board his Nissan taxi with public licence plates.[1]The bulletin
identified him only by the initials B.A., born in 1961.[1]His daughter, T.A.
born in 1996, was detained with him for cooperating with him in the dealing
operations.[1]
Information had reached the bureau, a unit working under the Judicial Police’s
plan against drugs, that a man was dealing narcotics by taxi in the Keserwan and
Metn districts.[2]
The Internal Security Forces said they seized 12 packages of hashish weighing
483 grams in total from the two.[2]Police also seized 8 packages of marijuana
weighing 142 grams in total.[1]The itemised list of what was seized from them
also covered 10 Captagon tablets, 40 bottles of ketamine, 75 XTC tablets, three
bags of narcotic mushrooms weighing 24 grams, five bottles of GBL liquid,
cocaine base, pink cocaine and cocaine, and a sum of money.[1]
Legal measures were taken against both detainees, and the investigation
continued under the supervision of the competent judiciary to arrest the others
involved.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Lebanon's Internal Security Forces arrested eight people from several drug-dealing networks in ambushes and raids on different dates in Bourj al-Barajneh, Nabaa, Zouk, Ouzai, Tyre, Tripoli, Dekwaneh and Sabtiyeh. Officers seized hashish, marijuana and other drugs along with 18 motorcycles and several firearms, but published no weights for any of the drugs.
Lebanese army units detained 28 people in raids and checkpoints across several regions. At the al-Sufri checkpoint in Baalbek, soldiers arrested a man for shooting and seized a quantity of hashish from him.
Mount Lebanon's judicial police, part of Lebanon's Internal Security Forces, arrested five people in four operations in Beirut and its southern suburbs on 6 and 7 November 2026. In Sabra they found a stolen-motorcycle store with six bikes, 23 bags of marijuana and 24 bags of hashish; a separate arrest in Roueiss was for suspected drug dealing.
Lebanese Army intelligence arrested a suspected drug dealer in an ambush in Jabal Mohsen, seizing more than 10 kg of hashish from his possession. The suspect and the seized hashish were held pending the necessary legal procedures in accordance with due process.
