Police in Cherven Bryag, Pleven Province, detained a 44-year-old man for drug possession, as reported in the Interior Ministry’s Pleven bulletin.[1] On 5 November a search of his person found a plastic container holding one dried green herbal flower.[1]

In a follow-up search at his home officers found a plastic box with 11 more dried herbal flowers in it.[1] The man said the substance was marijuana for personal use and handed it over voluntarily under a protocol.[1] A physical and chemical expert examination was still to be assigned to establish the substance, and no weight was published.[1] The examination was meant to establish the type and composition of the seized material, which the bulletin described as handed over rather than seized.[2]

Police opened a fast-track criminal proceeding for an offence under article 354a, paragraph 5, in connection with paragraph 3, point 1 of the Criminal Code, and notified the duty prosecutor at the Pleven district prosecutor’s office.[1] An investigating officer of the Cherven Bryag district police department is continuing the case.[1] The accounts came from the Pleven regional directorate of the Interior Ministry.[3]

Some outlets headlined the case as a large quantity of drugs, though no source gives a weight for the material.[4]