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A court remanded both in custody, and searches of their cars and the older man's Tartu home turned up drugs, drug-handling items and a weapon-like object with cartridges.","status":"verified","figures":{},"details":{"agencies":["Lõuna prefektuur (South Prefecture)","Lõuna ringkonnaprokuratuur (South District Prosecutor's Office)"],"agency_types":["police","prosecutor"],"products":[{"product":"flower"}],"activity":["sale","possession"],"setting":["home","vehicle"],"case_stage":"investigation","date_precision":"exact","region":"Harju County"},"data_sources":{"details.activity":[1],"details.agencies":[1],"details.agency_types":[1],"details.case_stage":[1],"details.products":[1],"details.setting":[1]},"tags":["estonia","tartu","harjumaa","drug-dealers","kanep"],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":null,"created_by_model":"swancloud/muse-spark-1.3-contributor#xhigh","open_questions":["Police published no weight or quantity for the substances seized, so no cannabis amount can be recorded; the substances' exact composition was to be established by expert examination.","The seized material is described only as various substances and tablets believed to be narcotics; the cannabis element is named in the prosecutor's account of dealings, not tied to a specific seized quantity.","The arrest happened in Harju County while the suspected dealing was in Tartu and Tartu County; Harju County is the most precise place named for the detention and is recorded at regional precision.","Tartu Postimees reports a weapon was found and refers to searches in the homes of both suspects, while the police statement describes searches of the suspects' vehicles and the 30-year-old's home in Tartu; the police statement's wording is used.","Only the men's ages were released, and no charges, trial date or court outcome beyond the custody order were reported.","The prosecutor's reference to a previous prison sentence for the 28-year-old gives no details of that sentence or its length.","The Lõunaeestlane and Atlantiz texts reproduce the Police and Border Guard Board statement, so they are not independent reporting; Tartu Postimees is a shortened version of the same announcement, and its page ran only two paragraphs.","A reflect.ee article on the same custody decision could not be read because its content is rendered by JavaScript, so it is not cited.","Left out, as its quotation was not found in Atlantiz: Both men were remanded in custody by a court at the request of the prosecutor's office.","Left out, as its quotation was not found in Politsei- ja Piirivalveamet: The head of the South Prefecture criminal bureau, Rain Vosman, said the searches turned up a weapon-like object with cartridges, which he said showed the suspects were dangerous.","Left out force, as its quotation was not found in Politsei- ja Piirivalveamet.","Left out arrested, as its only supporting source is not cited by the report's text."],"sources":[{"title":"Politsei pidas kinni kaks Tartumaal narkootikume käidelnud meest","url":"https://lounaeestlane.ee/politsei-pidas-kinni-kaks-tartumaal-narkootikume-kaidelnud-meest/","publisher":"Lõunaeestlane","date":"2026-11-06","archived":null},{"title":"Politsei pidas kinni kaks Tartumaal tegutsenud narkodiilerit","url":"https://tartu.postimees.ee/8578753/politsei-pidas-kinni-kaks-tartumaal-tegutsenud-narkodiilerit","publisher":"Tartu Postimees","date":"2026-11-06","archived":null}]},{"id":"estonia-mta-nine-months-42-7kg-cannabis","code":"CET-T46EWN","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/estonia-mta-nine-months-42-7kg-cannabis/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/T46EWN/","date":"2026-10-22","added_at":"2026-11-05T05:48:18.873937Z","added_at_source":"recorded","updated_at":"2026-11-06T23:31:22.000Z","country":"ee","country_name":"Estonia","place":"Estonia","coordinates":[58.5953,25.0136],"precision":"country","type":"seizure","also":["arrest"],"title":"Estonia's customs seized 42.7 kg of cannabis in nine months","summary":"Estonia's Tax and Customs Board stopped nearly 79 kilograms of narcotic and psychotropic substances crossing the border in the first nine months of 2026, with cannabis and cannabis products the largest share at 42.7 kilograms. The board put the haul at hundreds of thousands of doses and said new psychoactive substance seizures had more than doubled on the same period of 2025.","status":"verified","figures":{"kg_seized":42.7},"details":{"agency_types":["customs"],"products":[{"product":"flower","kg":42.7}],"activity":["smuggling"],"setting":["border"],"case_stage":"investigation"},"data_sources":{"details.activity":[2],"details.agency_types":[1],"details.case_stage":[1,2,3],"details.products":[1,2],"details.setting":[1,2]},"tags":["estonia","mta","customs","smuggling","cannabis-products"],"cover":null,"media":[{"kind":"photo","url":"https://www.emta.ee/en/news/estonian-tax-and-customs-board-prevented-nearly-79-kilograms-drugs-reaching-black-market-nine","media_url":"https://www.emta.ee/sites/default/files/styles/crop_rotate_full/public/2026-10/narkootikum.jpg?itok=INPpfX03","publisher":"Estonian Tax and Customs Board","caption":"Illustrative photo published with the Tax and Customs Board's nine-month drugs statement, captioned with the headline and credited to the MTA."},{"kind":"photo","url":"https://rus.err.ee/1610173117/nalogovo-tamozhennyj-departament-izjal-pochti-79-kg-narkotikov-za-devjat-mesjacev","media_url":"https://i.err.ee/smartcrop?type=optimize&width=1072&aspectratio=16%3A10&url=https%3A%2F%2Fs.err.ee%2Fphoto%2Fcrop%2F2026%2F10%2F05%2F3829790hff4a.jpg","publisher":"ERR","caption":"Photo captioned \"Narkootikumid\" (drugs) on the ERR report, credited to PPA (Police and Border Guard Board)."}],"cfi_id":null,"created_by_model":"swancloud/muse-spark-1.3-contributor#xhigh","open_questions":["No individual cases, arrests, suspects or border crossing points behind the 42.7 kilograms were published, so the report covers the aggregate figure only.","The board gives no street value for the cannabis seized.","The 79-kilogram total covers all drug categories and cannot be separated by case, so it is not recorded as a cannabis figure.","The report gives no breakdown of the cannabis figure between herbal cannabis, resin or other products.","No separate date for any individual seizure is known; 22 October 2026 is the date the board published its nine-month result.","Left out, as its quotation was not found in Maksu- ja Tolliamet (Estonian Tax and Customs Board): The board seized 42.7 kilograms of cannabis and cannabis products in the first nine months of 2026, the largest amount of any drug category it reported."],"sources":[{"title":"Налогово-таможенный департамент изъял почти 79 кг наркотиков за девять месяцев","url":"https://rus.err.ee/1610173117/nalogovo-tamozhennyj-departament-izjal-pochti-79-kg-narkotikov-za-devjat-mesjacev","publisher":"ERR","date":"2026-10-22","archived":null},{"title":"Estonian Tax and Customs Board prevented nearly 79 kilograms of drugs from reaching the black market in nine months","url":"https://www.emta.ee/en/news/estonian-tax-and-customs-board-prevented-nearly-79-kilograms-drugs-reaching-black-market-nine","publisher":"Maksu- ja Tolliamet (Estonian Tax and Customs Board)","date":"2026-10-22","archived":null},{"title":"Selle aasta üheksa kuuga confiscate-is/määras MTA 79 kilogrammi narkootikume","url":"https://www.mke.ee/et/uudised-et/selle-aasta-%C3%BCheksa-kuuga-confiscate-ism%C3%A4%C3%A4ras-mta-79-kilogrammi-narkootikume/","publisher":"MKE.ee","date":"2026-10-23","archived":null}]},{"id":"tallinn-mixed-drugs-arrest-including-cannabis","code":"CET-4P6WE7","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/tallinn-mixed-drugs-arrest-including-cannabis/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/4P6WE7/","date":"2026-10-19","added_at":"2026-11-11T13:39:33.85786Z","added_at_source":"recorded","updated_at":"2026-11-12T02:39:55.000Z","country":"ee","country_name":"Estonia","place":"Tallinn","coordinates":[59.437,24.7536],"precision":"locality","type":"arrest","also":["seizure"],"title":"One arrested in Tallinn over mixed drugs including cannabis","summary":"Police in Tallinn arrested a 27-year-old Uzbek citizen suspected of large-scale drug dealing through Telegram and stash locations. Officers found mixed narcotics including cannabis and hashish in his rented flat, and a court ordered him held in custody during the investigation.","status":"verified","figures":{"arrested":1},"details":{"agency_types":["police"],"activity":["sale"],"setting":["home"],"charges":["large-scale illegal handling of narcotics"],"case_stage":"investigation","date_precision":"exact","region":"Harju County"},"data_sources":{"details.activity":[1],"details.agency_types":[1],"details.case_stage":[1],"details.charges":[1],"details.setting":[2],"figures.arrested":[1]},"tags":["tallinn","telegram","hashish"],"cover":null,"media":[{"kind":"photo","url":"https://www.delfi.ee/artikkel/120623973/politsei-pidas-kinni-mehe-kelle-valdusest-leiti-ligi-13-kilogrammi-narkootilisi-aineid","media_url":"https://images.delfi.ee/media-api-image-cropper/v1/7b06141b-046d-4028-9342-4b17d3533615.jpg?noup&w=1200&h=711&fx=0.504361&fy=0.477259","publisher":"Delfi","caption":"Photo of the seized drugs. 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