20-year-old held in Bender over 300g marijuana sale
Transnistrian anti-drug officers detained a 20-year-old Bender resident after catching him selling about 300 grams of marijuana. Police said he had been under surveillance for months, sold to minors, and faced three criminal cases for three documented acts.
Officers of the Bureau for Combating Illicit Drug Trafficking of the Main
Criminal Investigation Department of the Interior Ministry of Transnistria
detained a suspected marijuana distributor in the city of Bender.[1][2]The
detained man was a 20-year-old resident of Bender who was stopped immediately
after completing the sale.[1]Officers caught him red-handed when he sold
about 300 grams of marijuana to a client, an episode the ministry’s press
service cited as the basis for the detention.[1]
Before that sale, anti-drug officers had kept the suspect under operational
surveillance for several months to document his activity.[1]During the
surveillance, police found that his clients included minors who lived in the
city of Bender.[1]In total, officers documented three separate unlawful acts
committed by the suspect in connection with marijuana distribution.[1]
Investigators opened a separate criminal case for each of the three documented
unlawful acts.[3]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The article gives no separate date for the detention; 23 August 2016 is the publication and reporting date used as the incident date
The reported amount was approximate, about 300 grams, so 0.3 kg is an approximate figure
The suspect was identified only as a 20-year-old Bender resident; his name was not published
Three criminal cases were opened but no formal charge, custody decision or court outcome was reported
Both accounts repeat the Interior Ministry press-service version; no independent account was found
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Transdnestrinform: The ministry's press service said the bureau officers carried out the detention after the months of operational work.
The Novosti PMR page carries one photograph with no caption or credit, so it could not be established as showing this seizure and is not linked as media.
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