October tally: 21.1 kg hashish seized; 111 held across governorates
Yemen's anti-drug department said October operations across several governorates produced 69 drug cases and 111 arrests. Seizures in the monthly total included 21.105 kilograms of hashish, alongside non-cannabis drugs excluded from the cannabis figure.
🇾🇪 Hadhramaut coast, Aden, Hadhramaut valley, Lahj, Taiz, Marib and Al-Dhalea · Yemen
Arrested
111
Cannabis
21.105 kg
Agencies
General Department for Combating Drugs, Ministry of Interior
The Interior Ministry’s General Department for Combating Drugs said it recorded
69 drug cases and arrested 111 suspects in several governorates during October.[1]Of those held, 39 were accused of promotion, 49 of use and 23 in other
categories.[1]The 69 cases comprised 29 use cases, 26 promotion cases and 14
in other categories.[1]The second account says all 111 detainees were male
citizens.[2]
The operations seized21 kilograms and 105 grams of hashish.[1]In the same
total officers also seized 910 grams of shabu and 4,163 narcotic pills, which
are not counted in the cannabis figures.[1]
Hadhramaut coast led with 26 cases and 40 arrests, followed by Aden with 24
cases and 36 arrests.[1]Hadhramaut valley recorded 13 cases and 27 arrests,
and Lahj recorded 3 cases and 5 arrests.[1]Taiz, Marib and Al-Dhalea each
recorded one case and one arrest.[1]Anti-drug director Brig. Abdullah Lahmadi
said confronting drugs requires combined security and community efforts.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
111
Cannabis
21.105 kg
Agencies
General Department for Combating Drugs; Ministry of Interior
Agency type
Anti-narcotics agency
Cannabis
Hashish (21.105 kg)
Case stage
Under investigation
Operation
1 Oct 2026 – 31 Oct 2026
Date
Approximate
Sources
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Anti-narcotics police in Aden detained two people in Khormaksar district and seized nine bags of hashish weighing 10.5 kg, saying the bags were packed for distribution. The department's director said the file would go to prosecutors and then to a criminal court, where he said the pair face 25 years in prison.
The interior ministry's drug-control administration reported about 1.3 tonnes of drugs seized in government-controlled areas in the first half of 2026: 613.7 kg of hashish, 617.6 kg of methamphetamine, 100 kg of heroin, 4 kg of opium, more than a million Captagon pills and 41,768 other pills.
Yemen's General Department for Combating Drugs reported 734 suspects detained in 484 drug cases in the first half of 2026, including 613.7 kg of hashish and one case of cultivating drug plants. The figures cover only governorates under the internationally recognised government, and most of the seized weight was methamphetamine and other drugs.
The drug control administration of the interior ministry of Yemen's internationally recognised government reported 2,986 kg of hashish seized in 2025 in the governorates it controls, beside 1,530 kg of crystal methamphetamine, 169 kg of heroin and 482,596 Captagon pills. It counted 704 drug cases, 488 of them for use, and 1,260 suspects, of whom 827 were users.
