Drug-control officers of the Amursky district police department in Khabarovsk Krai identified two cases of illegal storage of large amounts of plant-based drugs.[1] In the first case police stopped a foreign car driven by a 23-year-old resident of Ukrainka village.[1] Officers found a white sack of green plant material in the boot and a black plastic bag with similar contents on the back seat.[1] Examination established that the material was marijuana weighing more than one kilogram.[1] The detained man admitted he had gathered the drug in a forest in the autumn for his own use.[1] By his account he hid the dope grass in his car from his wife.[1]

In the second case police received information that a 68-year-old resident of the workers settlement of Elban was keeping a consignment of cannabis at his home.[1] The information was confirmed when officers found dried plants in the attic of the man’s house.[1] Testing showed the material was marijuana with a total mass of about 10 kilograms.[1] The man explained he had found bushes of wild cannabis in a forest strip the previous autumn and brought them home for his own use.[1]

The investigative department of the Amursky district police opened criminal cases over signs of an offence under part 2 of article 228 of the Russian Criminal Code.[1] Both suspects were placed under a written undertaking not to leave and to behave properly.[1] The Rambler relay of the police statement says the maximum penalty under that part of the article is up to 10 years of deprivation of liberty.[2] The Rambler relay confirms officers opened storage cases against Amursky district residents after finding the white sack in the boot and the black bag on the back seat.[2]