2021
7 reports. Sentences 4 · Seizures 2 · Prosecutions 1
Kiribati fines a man A$250 for keeping one cannabis plant
A man who kept a small cannabis plant belonging to his late half-brother received a A$250 fine after pleading guilty to possession. Chief Justice William Hastings found no evidence of use or dealing and treated the case as less serious than the earlier fisheries officer’s cannabis offence. Failure to pay by the end of December would bring one month in prison.
An American teacher gets 14 years in Russia for medical cannabis
Customs officers at Sheremetyevo airport found about 17 grams of cannabis in the luggage of Marc Fogel, a history teacher who had worked in Russia since 2012; an American doctor had prescribed it for chronic pain. In June 2022 he was convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced to 14 years.
Two men charged over 5,793 grams of marijuana in Most district grow
Czech police charged two men, aged 64 and 39, over an indoor cannabis grow in a village in the Most district where officers seized 5,793 grams of marijuana and 479 plants. The men said they grew the drug for their own medicinal use; police valued the haul at more than half a million korunas.
Charged 2Plants destroyed 479Cannabis 5.8 kg
Palau seizes 635 cannabis plants in Peleliu
Police seized 635 cannabis plants, 136 joints, about 250 lb of marijuana and $18,000 in cash in Peleliu; four Bangladeshi suspects were arrested. Police estimated the retail value at more than $400,000.
Transnistria sends a personal grower’s harvest case to court
Investigators sent Ivan Zavyazkin’s case to court after police found 34 cannabis plants and 749.054 g of dried cannabis at his cottage in an October 2020 search.
Police find a four-plant cannabis grow in a Tap Seac flat
Judiciary Police arrested a 28-year-old Taiwanese man and a 22-year-old local man after finding four cannabis plants, a portable greenhouse, a heating lamp, seeds and growing equipment in a rented flat near Tap Seac. The pair had met a year earlier, and police said they believed the plants were grown for sale. Officers came across the operation while investigating another drug case.
Five years for a suitcase of hashish at Doha airport
A man whose suitcase was picked out by a scanner at Hamad International Airport was sentenced to five years in prison, a fine of 300,000 riyals and deportation. He said a friend at home, who had promised him a job in Qatar and paid for his ticket, had given him the case to deliver.