20-year-old driver held for cannabis drug-driving in Burgas
Police in Burgas detained a 20-year-old man from Primorsko on Odrin Street on 31 October 2026 after a roadside test indicated cannabis use. He refused a blood test, was held for 24 hours, and police opened fast-track proceedings.
🇧🇬 Odrin Street, Burgas · Bulgaria
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Police in Burgas reported weekend drug-driving checks on 31 October and 1
November, with roadside tests showing cocaine, cannabis, amphetamine and
methamphetamine.[1][2]Second District officers stopped a Peugeot Partner with
Varna registration on Odrin Street in Burgas at about 13:20.[3]The Odrin
Street stop took place on 31 October within that weekend enforcement period.[1]The car was driven by a 20-year-old man from Primorsko.[1][2]
A roadside drug test indicated that the Primorsko driver had used cannabis.[1][2]The driver refused to provide a blood sample for confirmatory chemical analysis.[3]Officers detained the driver for 24 hours after the check.[1][2]Police
opened fast-track proceedings in connection with his case.[3]
Police described the Primorsko case as driving after cannabis use, distinct from
the other substances in the same roundup.[3]The same weekend roundup also
recorded positive results for cocaine, amphetamine and methamphetamine in other
driver stops.[3]Two of the drivers in the wider roundup refused to provide
samples for laboratory testing.[1]Fast-track proceedings were opened against
all of the drivers in the weekend roundup.[1][2]
No cannabis weight was reported, only alleged consumption before driving, so no kilogram figure can be recorded.
No outcome of the fast-track proceedings was reported.
The same weekend roundup includes three other driver detentions for cocaine, amphetamine and methamphetamine, which are excluded from the cannabis figures and left out of this focused report.
A separate 24 October Audi A3 stop in Meden Rudnik involving amphetamine and methamphetamine is a different event left out here.
Sofia prosecutors have sent a drug-trafficking indictment to the Sofia City Court over about 3.2 kg of cannabis held in a Hipodruma flat. The mixed seizure also included cocaine, with all drugs valued together at 45,825.04 euros and no hearing date yet set.
Police in Burgas Province detained two men in evening checks in Nesebar and Burgas on 3 November 2026, seizing drugs in both places. The Burgas stop in the Slaveykov complex yielded 10 grams of cannabis and 1 gram of ecstasy from a 33-year-old man.
Police in Burgas's Slaveykov complex detained a 37-year-old Daihatsu Sirion driver accused of driving after using cannabis, amphetamine and methamphetamine. He refused a chemical test, was held for up to 24 hours, and police opened fast-track proceedings.
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.
