Searches at three Drochia homes find marijuana and hashish
Police searched the homes of three Drochia residents aged 46 to 55 and found marijuana, hashish, mephedrone and cocaine, along with about 200 litres of counterfeit alcohol. The substances were sent for expert examination, and police said they were still establishing all the circumstances and everyone involved.
Police in Drochia, in northern Moldova, searched the homes of three residents as
part of operations against illegal drug trafficking and the illegal sale of
alcohol.[1][2]The three suspects are between 46 and 55 years old.[1][2]Moldova’s
General Police Inspectorate reported the searches on 26 October 2026.[3]
Officers found marijuana, hashish, mephedrone and cocaine in the houses.[1][2]They also found about 200 litres of counterfeit alcohol, a separate matter from
the drugs.[1]All the substances found were sent for expert examination to
establish their exact composition.[1][2]The examination was also meant to
establish the exact type and quantity of the drugs.[3]
Police said the investigation continued in order to establish all the
circumstances of the case and identify everyone involved.[1][2]
The searches were carried out by officers of the crime investigation department, police said.[2]Moldova’s General Police Inspectorate, the national police body, reported the searches on 26 October 2026.[3]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
No weight or quantity was published for any of the drugs, so no cannabis kilograms or plant count can be recorded.
Neither report says anyone was detained or charged; the three residents are described only as suspects.
The article gives no separate date for the searches; 26 October 2026 is the day the General Police Inspectorate announced them and is used as the incident date.
The reports do not say how much of the seizure was marijuana and how much was hashish.
The 200 litres of counterfeit alcohol is a separate, non-cannabis part of the same operation and is not included in any cannabis figure.
The crime investigation department is not further identified in the reports; it is not stated whether it is a Drochia district unit or a national one.
In November 2025 Moldova's southern investigations directorate searched four homes in Cahul and Cantemir districts, finding about seven kilograms of hydroponic cannabis and dried hemp that police valued at more than two million lei on the black market.
Moldovan police and the Fulger special police unit carried out 10 searches and dismantled five marijuana-growing laboratories in Chișinău and Criuleni district, detaining three men for 72 hours. Officers seized 169 growing plants and about 1.5 kg of dried drug, while IPN put the marijuana haul at 35 kg, worth over 7 million lei on the black market.
Moldovan prosecutors and anti-drug officers detained two men, aged 35 and 41, in Cahul and seized six kilograms of marijuana that police valued at more than 1.2 million lei. Prosecutors said the pair grew high-THC cannabis from seeds bought abroad and supplied dealers in Cahul, Chișinău and Romania; a court ordered them held for 30 days.
Police searched five homes in Cahul district and seized about 2 kg of marijuana, drug paraphernalia and a firearm, valuing the drugs at 490,000 lei. One of the three suspects aged 41, 50 and 67 was placed in 30-day detention while the other two were investigated at liberty for trafficking punishable by three to seven years.
