Suspended 24-day sentence in Tromsø for a man caught with hashish and a knife
Nord-Troms og Senja tingrett gave a man in his 20s 24 days' suspended imprisonment, two years' probation and 3,000 kroner in legal costs for threatening detention officers in Tromsø and for knife and cannabis offences. Police had found 2.1 grams of cannabis and a folding knife on him in Tromsdalen and about 5.2 grams of hashish when they stopped him twice in one evening in May 2026.
A man in his 20s has been sentenced to 24 days’ suspended imprisonment with a
two-year probation period, and must pay 3,000 kroner in legal costs.[1]The 24
days and the 3,000 kroner were the outcome of the case covering his outburst,
his possession of a knife and his possession of hashish and cannabis.[2]In
the summer of 2025 he was found carrying a folding knife in an inner pocket at a
petrol station in Tromsdalen, and he also had 2.1 grams of cannabis on him.[1]He was convicted of illegally carrying the knife in a public place.[1]
On several later occasions police caught him with smaller quantities of hashish
and cannabis.[1]In May 2026 he was stopped twice on the same evening: police
found about one gram of hashish in his pocket and another 4.2 grams in his
jacket pocket at midnight.[1]
The events that led to the sentence took place over two days in October 2025,
when he behaved aggressively, verbally and physically, during a search of him at
the police station in Tromsø.[1]When he was to be placed in custody he tried
to bite one detention officer in the arm, and the officer blocked the bite with
his elbow.[1]The next day he threatened a second detention officer who had
taken part in the search, saying on the way to an interview room: «Jeg skal
finne deg og ta deg».[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The article gives no separate date for the judgment; 4 November 2026 is the Politiforum publication date and is used as the incident date, while iTromsø first reported the case on 29 October 2026.
The assault and threats happened over two days in October 2025 and the last drug stop was in May 2026, so the case spans several dates rather than one incident day.
The cannabis figure is made up of 2.1 grams of cannabis plus about 1 gram and 4.2 grams of hashish found in separate stops; the reports do not say whether the court treated them as one or several offences.
The article does not state whether the man was convicted of a narcotics offence or only of the knife and violence counts; charged and arrested reflect the single man the case concerns rather than a stated charge sheet.
Other quantities of hashish and cannabis found on several later occasions have no figures.
The 3,000 kroner is stated as sakskostnader (legal costs), not a fine for the offences, and no value for the cannabis was published.
No second independent full account was opened: iTromsø's article is paywalled and the accessible Nyhetspressen text is a short iTromsø teaser.
No appeal or finality of the judgment is reported.
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Arrested 1Charged 1Prison 3 yearsCash confiscated NOK 191,450
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