Biysk culture worker seized with almost 3 kg of hemp stored at home
Police in Biysk searched the home of a 43-year-old cultural-leisure worker and found almost three kilograms of cannabis in a cardboard box and cloth sack in a cupboard on her veranda. She said she had picked wild plants nearby for personal use, and a criminal case was opened under Part 2 of Article 228 before she was released on a written undertaking to stay in place.
Criminal-investigation officers of Biysk’s municipal interior department
identified a 43-year-old local woman, who works in cultural and
mass-entertainment leisure, as a suspect in illegal drug circulation.[1]Police searched her home and found a cardboard box holding four packets of plant
material and a cloth sack of dried leaves in an old cupboard on the veranda.[1]
The seized material had the characteristic smell of hemp, the source states.[1]An expert examination found that the seized substance was cannabis with a
total mass of about three kilograms.[1]
The woman admitted collecting wild bushes of so-called dope grass near her
settlement and keeping them only for personal use and for inspiration.[1]An
investigator of the interior bodies opened a criminal case under Part 2 of
Article 228 of the Russian Criminal Code.[1]The suspect was placed under a
written undertaking not to leave her residence and to behave properly.[1]
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Cannabis
3 kg
Agency type
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Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (3 kg)
Activity
Possession
Setting
Home
Grown
Wild
Case stage
Under investigation
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МВД МЕДИАmvdmedia.ruRUПочти 3 кг марихуаны изъято у культработницы из алтайского села, вдохновлявшейся «дурман-травой»
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The article gives no separate date for the search and detention; 5 February 2026 is the publication date and is used as the incident date.
The weight is stated as about three kilograms from an expert examination, not an exact laboratory figure.
The source does not name the village where the woman lived or say where the wild plants were gathered.
The status of the 43-year-old woman under the criminal case is unclear: the source calls her both identified suspect and arrested person without naming her.
No court hearing, conviction or sentence is reported; the case was still at the investigation stage.
Only one opened account of this event was found; other search results were social-media reposts of the same police statement and could not be opened.
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