19-year-old detained with hashish in Kitskany forest
Police detained a 19-year-old Bender resident in Kitskany forest after finding hashish on him, which officers seized. He faces a fine of up to 6,300 Transnistrian roubles or up to 30 days of administrative arrest, with an administrative case under consideration.
🏳️ Kitskany forest, Slobodzeya district · Transnistria
Officers of the Criminal Investigation Department detained a 19-year-old
resident of the city of Bender in Kitskany forest while carrying out a raid in
Slobodzeya district.[1]Officers found hashish on the young man during the
detention.[1]He told officers that he had found a ziplock bag containing the
drug in the grass while he was walking through the forest.[1]According to the
Interior Ministry press centre, this was not the first time the young man had
claimed to have found drugs in this way.[1]Officers seized the banned
substance from him.[1]
Following the incident, authorities were considering holding the Bender resident
administratively liable.[1]For the hashish found on him, he faces a fine of
up to 6,300 roublesstrian roubles or administrative arrest for up to 30 days.[1]
The detention took place on 18 August, as reported from Slobodzeya district.[1]Police reminded the public that drug use and possession are unacceptable
and urged people not to become involved in illegal drug trafficking.[1]
Case data
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Criminal-investigation officers in Tiraspol detained a 20-year-old man suspected of unlawfully storing drugs after finding a ziplock packet with a brown mass resembling hashish in his jeans pocket. The substance was sent for chemical-biological examination during a pre-investigation check, with up to three years' imprisonment cited as possible criminal liability.
Police in central Bender detained a 19-year-old local resident carrying about 10 grams of plant material thought to be hashish, and found three more packets of about 10 grams each at his home. The seized material was sent for biological examination, and if confirmed as a drug he could face a fine of up to 21,000 Transnistrian roubles or up to three years in prison.
Criminal-investigation officers of Transnistria's capital militia detained a 42-year-old Sukleya resident who carried a fold of suspected marijuana in his shorts pocket and was under the influence of drugs. He first said he found it on a walk, then that he picked the plant in a nearby field, and an examination will decide whether he faces up to three years in prison or an administrative penalty.
Transnistrian police detained three couriers from Moldova — two men and a woman — who rented a flat in Tiraspol and placed about 500 drug stash drops around the republic. The Interior Ministry named hashish alongside mephedrone and alpha-PVP among the drugs they sold; selling carries up to 20 years.