46-year-old detained with 12 kg of marijuana in a Haskovo village
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.
A 46-year-old man was detained in the village of Smirnentsi, near Harmanli in
Haskovo region, after agents of Bulgaria’s anti-organised-crime directorate,
known by its Bulgarian initials GDBOP, searched a property he managed.[1][2][3][4]Inside a farm building on the property the agents found eight packages of
marijuana.[1][2][4]About 12 kilograms of marijuana were seized, the directorate
announced on its official Facebook page.[5][2][3]
Prosecutors opened a pre-trial investigation under the supervision of the
Haskovo district prosecutor’s office.[1][2][4]BHR reported the detainer as a
48-year-old in its headline but as a 46-year-old in the body.[1]
The Smirnentsi raid was part of two operations by the anti-mafia agents; the
other, carried out on 5 November in the Yambol village of Chelnik, led to the
detention of two men after about 3 kg of marijuana was found in a beehive in a
yard.[5][2]
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Photos published by the anti-organised-crime directorate show the packets of marijuana found in the farm building. Photo: GDCOCPhoto details
ПИК (PIK.bg)pik.bgBG48-годишен мъж е задържан за притежание на 12 кг марихуана
haskovo.nethaskovo.netBG12 кг марихуана откри ГДБОП в имот в харманлийското село Смирненци
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The BHR headline gives the detained man's age as 48 but its text and the haskovo.net account give 46; the report uses 46.
Neither account gives the date of the raid; 6 November 2026 is the publication date of both, and the other operation mentioned took place on 5 November.
The weight is reported as about 12 kg, not an exact measured figure.
Neither account states what the man is charged with, the measure of restraint or any court outcome.
The village appears as Smirnentsi in haskovo.net and as Smirnenski in BHR; the place given is the standard Bulgarian name.
The Chelnik seizure of about 3 kg and the two detentions there are a separate event and are not counted in this report's figures.
The page gives no date for the Smirnentsi raid; 6 November 2026 is its publication date.
The page states no charge, measure of restraint or court outcome for the detained man.
The PIK headline gives the man's age as 48, matching the BNR headline discrepancy already open in the report; its body text gives no age.
The PIK page gives no separate date for the raid, so no new incident date is established beyond the publication dates already recorded.
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 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.
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.
