Two held after 3 kg of marijuana found in a beehive in Yambol's Chelnik
Agents of Bulgaria's anti-organised-crime directorate detained two men in a search of a property in Chelnik, Yambol region, and found about 3 kg of marijuana packed in bags and hidden in a beehive in the yard. Prosecutors in Yambol opened a pre-trial investigation, and the raid was one of two operations in Yambol and Haskovo that ended with three detentions and about 15 kg of marijuana seized.
🇧🇬 Chelnik, Tundzha, Yambol · Bulgaria
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Arrested
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Cannabis
3 kg
Agency
Bulgaria's General Directorate for Combating Organised Crime (GDBOP)
Two men were detained in a specialised operation by Bulgaria’s
anti-organised-crime directorate, known by its Bulgarian initials GDBOP, in the
Yambol region on 5 November.[1][2][3][4]About 3 kilograms of marijuana were found
hidden in a beehive in the yard of a house in the Yambol village of Chelnik.[1][2][3][4][5][6]During the search of the property in Chelnik, officers found the drug
divided into various packages and hidden in the beehive.[1][2][3]The drug was found
divided into various packages during a search of a yard in the village,
according to Bulgarian National Radio.[7]
A pre-trial investigation was opened under the supervision of the Yambol
regional prosecutor’s office.[1][2][3][4]
The Chelnik operation was one of two GDBOP anti-drug operations in the Yambol
and Haskovo regions that ended with three men detained and about 15 kilograms of
marijuana seized in total.[1][2][3]No link between those detained in the two
operations had been announced.[1][3]
Photos and video
Photo published by the anti-organised-crime directorate with its announcement of the Chelnik and Smirnentsi seizures. Photo: GDCOC (ГДБОП)Photo details
The report gives the date of the Chelnik operation as 5 November but not the time of day or whether the searches in the two regions were simultaneous.
The weight is reported as about 3 kilograms, not an exact measured figure.
No charges, measure of restraint or court outcome are reported; the case was at the pre-trial investigation stage under the Yambol regional prosecutor's office.
The two detainees in Chelnik are not named and no ages are given.
The 12 kg seized in the parallel operation in Smirnentsi, Haskovo region, is a separate event recorded in another report and is not counted in this report's figures.
All accounts reproduce the same statement by the anti-organised-crime directorate, and the photographs published with them are its handout images.
The page's only image is credited as a Pixabay stock photo, so no event photo from this source is listed.
The RMTV item gives no separate date for the two operations; 5 November is the date in the directorate's announcement as reported by other outlets.
The RMTV text does not say whether the Chelnik searches and the Smirnentsi search were simultaneous.
The item reproduces the anti-organised-crime directorate's announcement without adding a plants, area or value figure.
The original sentence places the beehive 'в имот в с. Челник, в пчелен кошер в двора', which was read as a beehive in the yard of the searched property, as other outlets describe it.
Under Bulgarian practice the district prosecutor's office covers Haskovo region, while the provincial prosecutor's office covers Yambol region, and reports of the same statement vary between 'Районна прокуратура', 'Окъжна прокуратура' and 'регионална прокуратура' for Yambol; no single wording is confirmed.
The GDBOP statement gives the figure for the two operations together as about 15 kg; this page gives only about 3 kg and about 12 kg separately, as the recorded reports do.
The Flagman report closes with a summary of a separate late-September seizure of cocaine and marijuana from a truck tank at the Lesovo border crossing and of the court detention of its driver; that is a different event and is not part of this report.
Bulgarian customs, Interior Ministry officers and prosecutors stopped a freight truck on the entry lane at the Kulata border checkpoint and found nearly 500 kg of marijuana. The weight was reported only from unofficial information, with official details on the case still awaited.
Agents of Bulgaria's anti-organised-crime directorate seized about 12 kg of marijuana from a farm building on a property in Smirnentsi, near Harmanli, and detained the 46-year-old man who managed it. Prosecutors in Haskovo opened a pre-trial investigation.
Police in Bulgaria's Veliko Tarnovo region seized about 0.5 grams of cannabis from a 54-year-old lorry passenger on 3 November 2026 and detained him for up to 24 hours. The same day officers in Vodoley village found a 27-year-old woman with marijuana and cocaine, opening a case file with no weight or detention reported.
Police found 103 kg of marijuana, in the form of 159 cannabis plants left to dry, at a private property in Grashevo, a village in Velingrad municipality, during a special operation across Pazardzhik region. No arrest at the property was reported, and the directorate named no suspect or owner.
