20-year-old sent to a penal colony for 2.5 years over a June cannabis purchase
A court in Amur Oblast convicted a 20-year-old resident of Petropavlovka, in Ivanovsky District, of illegally buying a large consignment of cannabis in June and revoked his earlier suspended sentence. He was ordered to serve two and a half years in a general-regime penal colony after pleading guilty in full.
🇷🇺 Petropavlovka, Ivanovsky District, Amur Oblast · Russia
A court in Amur Oblast convicted a 20-year-old resident of the village of
Petropavlovka, in Ivanovsky District, of buying a large consignment of cannabis.[1]The conviction replaced an earlier suspended sentence with a real prison
term.[1]
Law enforcement officers detained the man, who was already serving a suspended
sentence, over the drug he bought illegally in June.[1]The defendant pleaded
guilty in full at the court hearing.[1]
The court revoked the suspended sentence and imposed a final penalty of two and
a half years in a general-regime penal colony.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Convicted
1
Sentenced
1
Prison
2 years 6 months
Agency type
Court, Prosecutor
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis
Activity
Possession
Case stage
Sentenced
Sentence
Prison
Region
Amur Oblast
Date
Publication date
Sources
Порт Амурportamur.ruRUЖитель Ивановского округа получил реальный срок за покупку марихуаны
Open questions the AI reported
The amount of cannabis bought is described only as a large quantity; no weight was published.
The article gives no separate date for the hearing; 10 November 2026 is the publication date and stands in for the event date.
The criminal code article and the charges behind the earlier suspended sentence are not stated.
Whether the man remains in custody or when he must report to the colony is not reported.
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