On 1 October, the Murzuq Security Directorate branch of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) arrested a Libyan man and seized 124.5 kilograms of cannabis resin and 11 kilograms of heroin stuffed in a Hyundai pickup en route to Sebha.
On the same day, the Internal Security Agency (ISA) caught another man transporting 239 Lyrica pills, 18 Tramadol pills and 18 of packs of different types of cannabis resin. The Sebha CID unit also arrested a man in possession of half box of heroin.
On 2 October, the Attorney General’s Office also reported that a court in the Western Mountain region, located about 160 kilometers southwest of Tripoli, issued death sentences against five people after convicting them of importing more than two million pills of psychoactive substances.
On 9 October, the Libyan National Army (LNA) said that the Subul al-Salam Brigade had seized more than 1.3 million narcotic (Captagon) pills following a firefight with smugglers in Kufra that injured three soldiers. Pictures it posted showed soldiers standing around tens of transparent plastic small bags filled with round white pills bearing the number one and a sentence in black that read “made in Germany”.
On 11 October, the Iraqi Ministry of Interior announced that it had been a joint intelligence operation between Iraq and the National Anti-Narcotics Agency in Libya, with the pills seized and a Libyan national arrested based on Iraqi intelligence.