Thessaly police report 79 drugs arrests and 14 cannabis plants seized in October 2026
The General Regional Police Directorate of Thessaly said its services made 465 arrests in October 2026, 79 of them for drugs offences, and seized 129.01 grams of cannabis and 14 cannabis plants. Its monthly roundup also lists individual cannabis cases in Volos, Larisa and the Trikala area, alongside cocaine, heroin, weapons and cash seizures.
🇬🇷 Thessaly region, Greece
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Arrested
79
Plants destroyed
14
Cannabis
129.01 g
In October 2026 the services of the General Regional Police Directorate of
Thessaly carried out 465 arrests, 79 of them for offences under the drugs laws.[1][2]The directorate said its officers cleared 69 drugs cases during the month.[1][2]Police seized129.01 grams of cannabis and 14 cannabis plants across the
region, the directorate said.[1]The same roundup lists seizures of 14 hunting
guns, one pistol and 820 euros in cash, alongside other drugs, including cocaine
and heroin.[1]
On 1 October 2026 police in Volos arrested a Greek man for a drugs offence and
seized 10 cultivated cannabis plants and 71.9 grams of raw cannabis.[1][2]On 2
October police in the Trikala area arrested a Greek man and seized 3 cannabis
plants and cannabis buds and stems, plus raw cannabis, with a total weight of
142.6 grams.[1][3]On 21 October 2026 police in Larisa arrested a Greek man,
found two purpose-built rooms running hydroponic cannabis cultivation systems,
and seized 145.2 grams of raw cannabis, among other items.[1][3]On 27 October
2026 two Greek men were arrested in Volos in cases under the drugs and weapons
laws, with cocaine, 427 grams of raw cannabis and a folding knife seized.[1]
The monthly case list also included a 5 October arrest in Larisa of a man for
attempted homicide, weapons-law offences and violence against officials.[1]The roundup gives combined monthly totals for the police directorate and
identifies no individual arrested people by name.[1]
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Open questions the AI reported
The cannabis total covers the whole Thessaly region for the month and is not broken down by county or case.
The roundup gives no single day for the monthly total; 31 October 2026 is used as the period-end date, and the reproductions were published on 9 and 11 November 2026.
The individual cannabis cases in the roundup are summarised only, and it is not clear whether their quantities are included in the monthly total.
No court outcomes are given for any of the cannabis arrests in the roundup.
All available accounts reproduce the same police-directorate monthly statement rather than independent reporting.
Reproductions of the monthly statement disagree on the cannabis and cash totals, giving either 1,129.01 grams of cannabis and 1,820 euros or 129.01 grams and 820 euros.
Police in Kastoria arrested a 34-year-old Greek woman and a 38-year-old foreign man after stopping their car on the evening of 10 November 2026 and finding 18.8 kg of raw cannabis in two travel bags. A felony trafficking case file was opened against both, and they were due to appear before the Kastoria prosecutor.
Greek drug-enforcement and airport customs officers seized 207.466 kg of raw cannabis from 48 boxes on two pallets in a temporary storage warehouse at Athens airport. The pallets had arrived by air from Thailand declared as clothing, and police put the expected gain from further trafficking at about 1 million euros.
Aspropyrgos crime-squad officers raided two apartments in Drapetsona on 25 October 2026 and arrested a couple and a relative, seizing 907 g of raw and 206 g of processed cannabis along with cocaine, MDMA, a pistol and scales; a case file went to the prosecutor.
The Hellenic Coast Guard intercepted the Syrian-flagged freighter Noka off the southeastern coast of Crete on 5 December 2018 and found about six tonnes of processed cannabis hidden with coffee, spices and wood shavings. The ship had sailed from Latakia for Benghazi; all 11 crew members were arrested.