Tonneins: 14 cannabis plants and 3 kg of packaged cannabis seized, owner in custody
Gendarmes called to a house in Tonneins, Lot-et-Garonne, over a strong smell found the owner selling to a customer and seized 3 kg of packaged cannabis and 14 plants. The owner was held in police custody for drug trafficking and the customer was fined for use.
Gendarmes from the Tonneins brigade were called late on Friday morning, 25
September 2026, to a house in Tonneins, Lot-et-Garonne, because of a strong
smell coming from it.[1]They entered the house and found two people inside:
the owner in the middle of a transaction with a customer.[2]A search that
followed turned up 3 kg of cannabis already packaged and 14 cannabis plants.[2]The officers said one plant is capable of producing 2 kg of cannabis.[2]
The owner of the house was placed in garde à vue, French police custody, on
suspicion of drug trafficking.[2]The customer was fined for using drugs.[2]
The same account appeared in Le Petit Bleu d’Agen’s report on petitbleu.fr.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Plants destroyed
14
Cannabis
3 kg
Agency
National Gendarmerie (France)
Agency type
Gendarmerie
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (3 kg); Living plants (14 plants)
Activity
Sale, Trafficking, Possession
Setting
Home
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
petitbleu.frpetitbleu.frFRTonneins : 14 plants de cannabis et 3 kilos d'herbe saisis, le propriétaire en garde à vue pour trafic de stupéfiants
La Dépêche du Midiladepeche.frFRTonneins : 14 plants de cannabis et 3 kilos d'herbe saisis, le propriétaire en garde à vue pour trafic de stupéfiants
Open questions the AI reported
The article gives only the year-less date 'Vendredi' (Friday); 25 September 2026 is the Friday before the 26 September 2026 publication date and is used as the incident date.
The article does not say whether the 14 plants were seized, uprooted or destroyed, so they are recorded with the dried cannabis under plants_destroyed, the tracker's field for seized plants.
The article does not say where the plants were growing or how the dried cannabis was packaged beyond 'already conditioned'.
No street value, charge sheet, age or court date was published, and the customer is not named.
Police custody does not necessarily mean an arrest was recorded: the sources do not say the owner was formally arrested or charged.
The article reports a separate Marmande operation against illegal street stunts (rodéos sauvages) with 30 gendarmes and a helicopter; it belongs to another event and is left out here.
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