Five of seven convicted in Sørlandet drugs network appeal their sentences
Five of the seven men convicted in the 2024 Sørlandet narcotics case are fighting their prison sentences before the appeals court. The Agder district court sentenced the network's alleged leader, a music artist from Søgne, to 12 years and three other men to ten years, in a case where prosecutors said the group moved about 52 kilos of cannabis.
🇳🇴 Agder lagmannsrett, Kristiansand · Norway
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Five of the seven men convicted in the large narcotics case uncovered in
southern Norway in 2024 were fighting their long sentences in the appeals court
in November.[1]
The case began with one of the largest police operations Agder had seen, when 19
people were arrested on 15 October 2024.[2]The prosecution said the network
handled about 52 kilos of cannabis alongside 6 kilos of amphetamine, 2.7 kilos
of cocaine, 10,000 alprazolam tablets and 375 grams of MDMA.[2]Police
believed the group, known in court as BB, was led by a 38-year-old music artist
from Kristiansand.[2]
Agder district court convicted seven people in the case, six of them under the
so-called mafia paragraph, section 79c, for acting as part of an organised
criminal group.[3]The man identified as the main figure, a music artist from
Søgne, received 12 years in prison.[3]Three of the other defendants were
sentenced to ten years, and the remaining sentences ranged from eight years down
to two years and ten months.[3]The artist was also ordered to forfeit 3.4
million kroner, which the court treated as the total income he had from the
operation, including credited debt.[3]The judgment followed a trial that ran
over 23 court days.[3]
Six of the seven appealed against their sentences in the appeals court.[4]
The submitted article is behind a subscriber paywall and its full text could not be read, so no detail from it beyond the sentence about the five appellants is used.
The accessible accounts do not name the appeals court hearing the case; Agder lagmannsrett, which hears appeals from Agder tingrett, is assumed.
The 10 November 2026 date is when the appeal was reported, not necessarily the date the appeal hearing opened.
Agderposten reported on 10 November 2026 that an appeal case against a large drugs network was starting that day, but its text could not be opened and is not used as a source.
Only one of the four opened sources states that the main figure's sentence is 12 years, and none states the sentence of the seventh convicted man.
The cannabis quantity is stated as approximately 52 kilos attributed to the network, not a separately weighed seizure, and the accessible accounts give 50 kilos in the charge.
The text gives a weight ("52 kilos") but the figures have no kg_seized; check whether it belongs there.
Police found 278 cannabis plants in a detached house in Krokstadelva before Christmas 2024 and estimated their street value at up to 2.8 million Norwegian kroner. The man nicknamed «the gardener» has been convicted, while the trial of two other defendants has been postponed for a third time.
A man has been charged with trying to grow 24 cannabis plants in a residential house in Vegårshei, and his case is listed for Agder tingrett, the district court for the Agder region. Both local newspapers are behind paywalls, so the account rests on their published headlines and standfirsts.
Customs stopped a Polish lorry driver, 41, at Svinesund on the afternoon of 23 April 2026 and found 194.8 kg of cannabis hidden around the refrigeration unit. On 17 September prosecutors in Øst charged him with a gross drug offence. He admitted importing cannabis but said he had been told it was 80 to 100 kg.
A man in his 50s from Lithuania has been charged with importing about 246 kilograms of cannabis into Norway at the Riksåsen border crossing in Kongsvinger on 23 December 2025. The drugs were hidden in a cavity in the floor of the truck and trailer he was driving, and his trial is set for 2 to 4 December in Romerike og Glåmdal district court.
