Three held in Armenia as a truck search turns up 108.5 g of cannabis
Officers at the Agarak checkpoint on the Armenian-Iranian border found methamphetamine and 33 g of hashish oil in an Iranian truck, then detained a married couple collecting the drugs from a Yerevan cemetery cache. One detainee handed over 75.5 g of marijuana smuggled into the country days earlier, and the total haul of all drugs exceeded 1.5 kg.
Officers of Armenia’s State Revenue Committee searching a truck arriving from
Iran at the Agarak border checkpoint found a plastic bag holding 282 grams of
methamphetamine and a metal container filled with 33 grams of hashish oil.[1]An Iranian citizen was detained on suspicion of drug smuggling and taken to the
Syunik department of the Investigative Committee, where a criminal case was
opened.[1]The drugs were to be left at one of Yerevan’s cemeteries, where
Revenue Committee officers set an ambush, and a married couple who are Armenian
citizens were detained after they collected the drugs from the hiding place.[1]Investigators said the couple were users of a Telegram platform selling
drugs and planned to sell the drugs they collected through it.[1]
A search of the Iranian citizen’s truck found another 650 grams of
methamphetamine in hiding places.[1]Officers also found a package of
methamphetamine at a cache site in Yerevan and the investigator seized it by
law.[1]In all, the operational and investigative work found and took out of
illegal circulation more than 1.5 kg of various types of drugs.[1]
Armenia’s Investigative Committee press service said packages with 1.5 kg of
various drugs were found in a truck at the Agarak checkpoint on the
Armenian-Iranian border and that an Iranian citizen was detained.[2]The same
press service account said the couple were detained after the drugs were taken
from the cache and that a criminal case was opened.[2]Operational measures
continue to identify other people possibly involved in circulating the drugs and
to find packages already placed around Yerevan.[1]
Photos and video
Image published with the report on the more than 1.5 kg of drugs seized in Armenia; the page gives no caption or credit beyond the headline.Photo details
The article says the operation took place "in recent days" and gives no separate date; 13 August 2025 is its publication date and is used as the incident date.
The report gives only a combined figure of more than 1.5 kg for all the drugs seized; only the 75.5 g of marijuana and 33 g of hashish oil are cannabis, so no combined total is recorded as a cannabis quantity.
News Armenia attributes the truck inspection and the cemetery ambush to State Revenue Committee officers, while Public Radio of Armenia attributes the account to the Investigative Committee's press service.
No charges, court decision or sentences have been reported, and the three detained people are not named.
The two outlets describe the border crossing as Agarak, while the News Armenia text spells it "Агарат" in the body; the tracker uses Agarak, the spelling of the Public Radio account and of earlier Armenia reports.
The News Armenia photo is captioned only with the headline and is not established to show a particular item from this seizure; the embedded video is likewise identified only by the headline.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Новости-Армения: After questioning, one of the detainees handed over 327 grams of methamphetamine and 75.5 grams of marijuana that had been smuggled into the country several days earlier, along with tools and materials for packaging and selling drugs.
The National Security Service stopped two Armenian citizens and an Iranian citizen with 69.3 kg of marijuana near Meghri, after they picked up the load from a cache near Nrnadzor. The case was opened under the aggravated sale and smuggling articles, and a court ordered the two Armenians held.
Armenian officers at the Agarak border checkpoint seized about 28 kilograms of hashish hidden in a trailer officially carrying construction slabs to Georgia. The truck's Iranian driver was detained and a criminal case was opened in Syunik Province.
Armenia's National Security Service detained two Armenian citizens in Syunik Province accused of bringing 26 kg of drugs, including 20.842 kg of marijuana, from Iran for sale. A public criminal prosecution was opened against both and a court ordered them held in pretrial detention.
Armenia's State Revenue Committee found 970 grams of marijuana in a courier parcel sent from the United States and placed its Onex locker under watch. One Armenian citizen was detained in Yerevan and two more in Stepanavan on suspicion of smuggling, purchase and sale, with the drug allegedly meant for sale on Telegram.
