38-year-old held in Tarbes night check with 30 g of cannabis
Police in central Tarbes stopped a 38-year-old man at about 2:30 a.m. and found 23 grams of cannabis herb and 7 grams of resin, plus 0.5 gram of cocaine. He said the drugs were for personal use and was summoned to answer under a simplified criminal-order procedure on 18 January.
In the night from Monday to Tuesday, at about 2:30 a.m., police stopped a
38-year-old man in a street in central Tarbes, in the Hautes-Pyrenees, after
finding him carrying several drugs.[1]He said the drugs found on him were
meant for his own personal use, rather than for sale.[1]Officers held him in
garde a vue, the French police-custody detention, at the Tarbes police station
for questioning by investigators.[2]
After his custody ended, he was summoned to answer for the facts on 18 January
under an ordonnance penale, a simplified procedure in which a judge can impose a
sentence without a public hearing.[2]
During the street check, police found 23 grams of cannabis herb on him.[2]The
same check also found 7 grams of cannabis resin on him, making 30 grams of
cannabis in total.[2]Officers also found 0.5 gram of cocaine on him, which is
described here only to explain the mixed seizure and is not counted as cannabis.[3]
Case data
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NRPyrenees.frnrpyrenees.frFRTarbes : interpellé en pleine nuit avec du cannabis et de la cocaïne - nrpyrenees.fr
Actu City65actu.city65.frFRTarbes : interpellé en pleine nuit avec du cannabis et de la cocaïne - Actualité city65
Open questions the AI reported
The reports give the hearing only as 18 January next, without a year; it is read as the January after the October 2026 arrest.
The 0.5 gram of cocaine is mentioned only to explain the mixed seizure and is excluded from the cannabis figures.
The exact street in central Tarbes is not named, so Tarbes town centre is used with locality precision.
No outcome of the 18 January ordonnance penale hearing was reported.
The NRPyrenees page carries the same article identifier and byline as the La Depeche version, indicating a same-group reprint rather than a fully independent second account.
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