19-year-old held in Tarbes with 17 g of cannabis and cocaine
Police in Tarbes arrested a 19-year-old after stopping a suspected drug deal on rue Henri-Duparc on 31 October 2026, seizing 17 grams of cannabis alongside cocaine and cash. The youth admitted the facts and was referred to the prosecutor for a guilty-plea hearing.
Police in Tarbes intercepted a suspected drug transaction on rue Henri-Duparc on
Saturday 31 October and arrested a 19-year-old young man.[1][2]Officers found 4
grams of cocaine, 17 grams of cannabis and 170 euros on the young man, who
admitted the facts.[1][2]He was placed in garde à vue, the French police-custody
detention, as the Halloween evening ended in custody.[1]He was to be brought
on Monday before the prosecutor for a comparution sur reconnaissance préalable
de culpabilité (CRPC), France’s guilty-plea hearing procedure.[1][2]
The street check happened at about 3:30 p.m., when officers on patrol noticed a
strange exchange between two young people.[1]Police observed that the two
were plainly not exchanging sweets, treating the meeting as a likely narcotics
deal.[1]
Officers found 17 grams of cannabis, the cannabis component recorded here, along
with 4 grams of cocaine and 170 euros in cash.[1]The named place for the
event is rue Henri-Duparc in Tarbes, where the Saturday Halloween stop took
place.[1]
Photos and video
Halloween drug discovery in Tarbes that led to custody. Photo: V.C.Photo details
The full article is paywalled, so details beyond the published summary and opening paragraph could not be read.
Two young people were seen at the scene, but the accessible text details only the 19-year-old's arrest, leaving the other person's situation unclear.
No outcome of the Monday CRPC guilty-plea hearing was given in the accessible text.
The 4 grams of cocaine and 170 euros are mentioned only to describe the mixed seizure and are excluded from cannabis figures; no cannabis-only value was published.
Only one independent account could be opened; no second independent source for this stop was found.
The nrpyrenees.fr page shares the same article identifier 13632738 as the La Dépêche version already cited, indicating a same-group reprint rather than a fully independent second account.
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