28-year-old held as 93-plant indoor cannabis farm found in Almaty
Police in Almaty's Turksib district found 93 potted cannabis plants in a rented house used as an indoor plantation and detained a 28-year-old man. A criminal case was opened and the suspect was arrested pending investigation of supply channels.
Police in Almaty shut down a drug plantation set up in a rented house.[1]Operatives found the marijuana plantation in a rented house in the city’s
Turksib district.[1][2][3][4][5][6]The occupants lived in a temporary outbuilding while the
main premises were used to grow the plants.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
During the search, police found 93 potted plants with the characteristic smell
of marijuana and a packet of material with a specific smell.[1][2][3][4][5][6]A 28-year-old
man was detained during the operational measures.[1][2][3][4][5][6]The suspect was arrested
and a criminal case was opened over the discovery.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
NUR.KZ reported the discovery citing the city police department.[1]Investigators still have to establish possible distribution channels, who
organized the plantation and for whom the product was intended.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
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Still from Almaty police video of the seized drug plantation. Photo: instagram.com/almaty.police via NUR.KZPhoto details
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No separate date for the search and detention is given; 7 November 2026 is the article's publication date and is used as the incident date.
The packet of material with a specific smell is reported without a weight or laboratory confirmation, so no cannabis weight is recorded.
Only the suspect's age was published; his name was not given.
No court outcome beyond arrest and the opening of a criminal case was reported.
No second independent account of this Turksib-district plantation could be found.
Kursiv was opened on 8 November 2026 and gives no separate date for the search and detention, so it is not clear whether the police announcement came on 7 November, as the report's earlier source gave, or on 8 November.
The packet of material with a specific smell is still reported without a weight or laboratory confirmation, so no cannabis weight is recorded.
The article gives no separate date for the search and detention; 8 November 2026 is its publication date.
The Astana TV page uses the same city police department statement as the sources already cited and gives no separate date for the search and detention; 8 November 2026 is its publication date.
The page reports "около сотни" (about a hundred) bushes in the lead but 93 potted plants in the body; the body figure is used.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Телеканал «Астана»: The occupants lived in a temporary outbuilding while the main premises were used to grow the plants.
The Noks.kz page gives no separate date for the search and detention; 9 November 2026 is its publication date, later than the 7 November date recorded from the earlier sources, so the police announcement may have circulated over several days.
The packet of unknown substance is again reported without a weight or laboratory confirmation, so no cannabis weight is recorded.
Police in Ridder, East Kazakhstan Region, stopped a 34-year-old local man's Toyota Caldina and a medical examination found him under the influence of drugs. A search of the car turned up a packet of marijuana weighing more than 35 grams, and a criminal case was opened.
Police in Aktobe detained three residents after finding more than 25 kilograms of marijuana in barrels stored in the attic of a house. A forensic test confirmed the substance was marijuana, and a pre-trial investigation is establishing the circumstances and possible supply channels.
Almaty anti-drug officers detained a 43-year-old man in Nauryzbai district after finding 13 cannabis bushes and a box of dried material in his private house. Police said the seized narcotics totalled 10 kg; a criminal case was opened and the suspect was placed in temporary detention.
Police in Aktobe detained a 33-year-old man in a dacha settlement and found a bag of plant material on him, then seized more marijuana from a barn at his home. Experts put the total at more than 1.7 kilograms, and a medical examination found him intoxicated with drugs at the time.
