Police arrested a man in the wider area of Xanthi in the early-morning hours of Wednesday, 4 November 2026.[1] The officers who spotted the man belonged to the Prevention and Mediation Group of the Xanthi Department for the Prosecution and Solving of Crimes.[1] That Prevention and Mediation Group operates as part of the Xanthi investigative department named in the police account.[1] According to police, officers found the man holding a nylon package containing a small amount of raw, unprocessed cannabis.[1] During the same check, officers also found him holding a knife.[1]
Police seized both objects, the package of cannabis and the knife.[1] The preliminary inquiry into the case is being conducted by the Xanthi Department for the Prosecution and Solving of Crimes.[1] The seized cannabis was identified specifically as raw, unprocessed cannabis in a single nylon package.[1] The Department for the Prosecution and Solving of Crimes is the Xanthi criminal-investigation department now handling that preliminary inquiry.[1] The wider area of Xanthi was the stated place of the early-morning arrest.[1]
