Polish man held with marijuana at the Brest checkpoint
On 25 August 2026 border guards at the Brest checkpoint detained a Polish man and found a packet of marijuana in his car. Criminal cases were opened for illegal drug trafficking and moving drugs across the border, and he faces up to seven years in prison.
Border guards detained a Belarusian man and a Polish man on the
Belarusian-Polish border as they tried to bring narcotics into the country.[1]The State Border Committee of Belarus reported the detentions.[1]On 25 August
2026, at the Brest checkpoint, the guards detained the Polish man and found a
packet of marijuana in his car.[1]A committee photograph shows the drugs
found on the Polish man at the border on 25 August 2026.[1]
The day before, on 24 August, at the Bruzgi checkpoint, border guards found a
suspicious packet under the driver’s seat of a car in which a resident of Gomel
region was returning home.[1]The packet contained a white crystalline
substance.[1]Testing identified that substance as a particularly dangerous
psychotropic.[1]
Criminal cases were opened against the detained men for illegal trafficking in
narcotics and for moving drugs across the border.[1]Both detained men face up
to seven years in prison.[1]
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State Border Committee photo of the drugs found on a Polish man at the border on 25 August 2026. Photo: State Border CommitteePhoto details
Three men aged 22 to 27 were detained in a Minsk suburb after officers found 50 g of marijuana and six cannabis pots in a rented house. One of them had built an app for remote climate control of the grow, and a criminal case was opened against all three.
Minsk police detained a 43-year-old resident after seizing more than 400 grams of marijuana from his city apartment and his dacha plot in Minsk District. He said he made it from wild cannabis for personal use; a criminal case was opened carrying up to five years in prison.
Minsk drug-control officers detained a 27-year-old resident who ran his own online drug shop after starting as a stash-maker, seizing more than 320 g of hashish from his flat and caches. Investigators opened a trafficking case and liquidated the shop; he faces up to 15 years in prison.
Police in Bobruisk detained a 32-year-old courier for an online drug shop and seized more than 600 g of hashish and marijuana, plus 2,000 LSD stamps, from him, his home and caches in four cities, the Interior Ministry said. Investigators opened a drug-trafficking case and he faces up to 15 years in prison.
