15 detained across five Georgian regions with dried marijuana seized
Police in Tbilisi and four other Georgian regions detained 15 Georgian and foreign nationals accused of acquiring, storing and helping sell drugs in large and especially large quantities. Dried marijuana was among the seized substances, but the Interior Ministry published no cannabis weight, plant count or breakdown by drug.
🇬🇪 Tbilisi, Adjara, Samtskhe-Javakheti, Imereti and Kvemo Kartli, Georgia
Police from the Interior Ministry’s departments for Tbilisi, Adjara,
Samtskhe-Javakheti, Imereti and Kvemo Kartli detained 15 people on drug charges.[1]The detainees include both Georgian citizens and foreign nationals.[1]They are accused of unlawfully acquiring and storing drugs and of helping to
sell them in large and especially large quantities.[2]
Officers seized drugs prepared for sale, among them dried marijuana, mephedrone,
cocaine, alpha-PVP, thebaine, methadone and buprenorphine.[1]Sputnik Georgia
listed marijuana, mephedrone, cocaine, methadone, buprenorphine, alpha-PVP and
thebaine among the seized substances.[2]The Interior Ministry did not name
the foreign detainees’ citizenship.[2]
The Interior Ministry said the investigation is proceeding under Criminal Code
articles 260 and 260-4.[1]Those articles carry up to 20 years in prison or
life imprisonment.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
15
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis
Activity
Sale
Setting
Prison
Case stage
Sentenced
Sentence
Life imprisonment
Sources
1TV1tv.geRUArchived copyМВД Грузии арестовало 15 человек по обвинению в наркопреступлении, изъято крупное количество наркотиков
Georgia's Central Criminal Police detained seven Georgian and foreign nationals in Tbilisi on charges of large-scale drug acquisition, storage and facilitation of sale. Searches recovered dried marijuana and THC alongside synthetic drugs, with the charges carrying up to 20 years in prison or life imprisonment.
Police in Georgia detained two people in separate operations, including a controlled delivery of a parcel from abroad that held about 200 THC capsules. The second detention at Tbilisi airport involved methadone and buprenorphine, with both cases investigated as especially large-scale import punishable by up to life imprisonment.
Police detained a foreign truck driver at the Lagodekhi border crossing after finding nearly 12 kilograms of marijuana hidden in the cab. The suspect faces illegal purchase, possession and import charges that carry up to 20 years or life imprisonment.
Georgia's Central Criminal Police detained seven Georgian and foreign nationals on drug charges, seizing up to 4 kg of marijuana and 21 cannabis plants alongside other drugs. The investigation under articles carrying up to life imprisonment was still under way with no court outcome reported.