Police from Rural Police Section 2 in Beiuș detained Cosmin Tinca, a 44-year-old man from Șuncuiș, and handed him to Oradea Penitentiary after a court sentenced him to 3 years and 4 months in prison.[1] The Beiuș Court gave that sentence in October 2026 and it was not appealed. It combined 6 months for escape with the conviction imposed in April 2024 for selling prohibited substances.[1] He had been under house arrest in the drug case when, on the evening of 21 October 2023, he went to a shop in Șuncuiș to drink a beer with two friends.[1] The chief of the Finiș police post saw him there while checking on him.[1] Tinca said he had not thought that going to the bar broke the house-arrest conditions.[1] The breach brought another 6 months in custody, during which he painted the entire Bihor Police lock-up.[1]
Investigators first looked at him because in January 2023 he ordered half a kilogram of cannabis from Spain.[1] He was caught when he collected the parcel from a transport company, and 93 grams of a prohibited substance were found at his home.[1] Anti-drug police and DIICOT Oradea, the organised-crime prosecutor’s office, had followed him for some time.[1] In November 2022 an authorised collaborator of the investigators received cannabis from him for free.[1] He later brokered the sale of 13 grams of cannabis for 650 lei.[1] Intercepted calls showed that Tinca sent money to an unknown person in Spain who promised to send him a parcel of drugs.[1]
After he was caught collecting the parcel he spent more than half a year in jail, and the court then replaced detention with house arrest, which he observed for two months before the bar visit.[1] In April 2024 he was sentenced to 3 years and 2 months in prison, to be served, for drug trafficking, and he was released on parole in June 2025 after 871 days in detention.[1] That time was subtracted from the recent Beiuș sentence, so he was expected to serve about 11 months more.[1]