Dominican boat owner jailed six months over 10 kg cannabis landed at Vieux-Fort
The Basse-Terre criminal court sentenced the Dominican boat owner caught landing 10 kg of cannabis at Vieux-Fort in April 2018 to six months in prison, four of them suspended. It also imposed a three-year ban from French territory, a €20,000 fine and continued detention, while investigators still sought his local accomplices.
🇫🇷 Les Trois Pointes, Rivières-Sens, Vieux-Fort, Guadeloupe · France
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Arrested
1
Cannabis
10 kg
Prison
6 months, 4 suspended
Fine
EUR 20,000
Agencies
Tribunal correctionnel de Basse-Terre, Gendarmerie nationale
Gendarmes from South Basse-Terre lay in wait in scrub at Les Trois Pointes, at
the end of the Rivières-Sens fitness trail, on Saturday night after a tip-off.[1]A boat with all its lights off landed a few hours later.[1]The officers
stormed the boat and arrested its owner, a Dominican national.[1]The arrest
was described as caught in the act at Vieux-Fort during the previous weekend.[1]
The account presented the interception as one in a run of drug landings bringing
arrests.[1]Officers found more than 10 kilograms of cannabis herb packed in
parcels aboard.[1]The landing spot was described as rocky and poorly lit, and
the gendarmerie intercepted the delivery at the last moment.[1]
The suspect was immediately placed in police custody and then held in
provisional detention while the duty magistrate decided how to proceed.[1]He
was to be tried by immediate appearance in the main town.[1]Investigators
still had to identify his alleged accomplices in Guadeloupe who were to collect
the drugs.[1]
The Basse-Terre criminal court sentenced the Dominican boat owner arrested on 21 April 2018 with 10 kg of cannabis to six months in prison, four of them suspended.[2]The court added a three-year ban from French territory and a €20,000 fine, following the prosecutor’s requests in full.[2]The defendant was ordered kept in detention after the hearing.[2]Investigators still had to identify the accomplices in Guadeloupe who were to collect the cannabis.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Cannabis
10 kg
Prison
6 months, 4 suspended
Fine
EUR 20,000
Agencies
Tribunal correctionnel de Basse-Terre; Gendarmerie nationale
Agency type
Court, Gendarmerie
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (10 kg)
Setting
Mail or parcel
Charge
trafic de stupéfiants (drug trafficking)
Case stage
Under investigation
Route
Dominica → France
Sources
RCIrci.fmFR10 kilos de cannabis saisis lors d'un débarquement sauvage
RCIrci.fmFRPeine de prison pour l'homme arrêté avec 10 kilos de cannabis
Open questions the AI reported
The exact landing night is inferred as Saturday 21 April 2018 from samedi soir dernier relative to the 24 April 2018 publication; the article gives no calendar date for the operation.
The quantity is given only as more than 10 kilos, so 10 kg is recorded as the stated lower bound and the exact weight was not published.
The suspect was described only as a Dominican national and boat owner; no name or age was published.
No outcome of the announced immediate trial was reported in the opened source.
Only one accessible source for this event was found after searching; no agency statement or second account could be opened.
No event photo is linked because the page image is a generic RCI image and the other page images illustrate unrelated 2026 items.
The article gives no plea or precise court wording beyond the prosecutor's requests being followed in full.
No outcome was reported for the accomplices in Guadeloupe, who had not been identified when the article was published.
Only one source was opened for the sentencing step; no court record or second outlet account was found.
A 28-year-old driver tested positive for cannabis after rear-ending a car and injuring its driver at Percy-en-Normandie on 2 January 2026. The Coutances court sentenced him on 10 November 2026 to six months suspended imprisonment and cancelled his driving licence.
The criminal court in Troyes sentenced 47-year-old Ramzi Nefzaoui to 14 months in firm prison for drug trafficking and issued an arrest warrant. The case began when gendarmes stopped his Renault Laguna at Barberey-Saint-Sulpice in December 2025 and found cannabis resin, herb, cash and a scale.
The Fontainebleau criminal court sentenced a driver to five years in prison, including two years firm, over a fatal 2021 crash at Souppes-sur-Loing in which his 20-year-old passenger died. The court heard he had drunk alcohol and smoked cannabis and was driving at 135 km/h in a 30 km/h zone.
Anti-crime police in Passamaïnty, Mayotte, broke up a drug deal on 4 November 2026 and seized 3.334 kg of cannabis and 8,495 euros in cash from a suspected stash flat; three people were arrested. Two young men were tried in Mamoudzou on 9 November and sentenced to 30 months with 12 suspended and a 15-month suspended term.