16 detained in Georgia drug sweep with cannabis seized
Police in Tbilisi, Adjara, Kvemo Kartli and Imereti detained 16 people on drug charges including sale and cannabis cultivation. Searches recovered marijuana and cannabis plants among other drugs, plus packaging and growing materials and cash.
🇬🇪 Tbilisi, Adjara, Kvemo Kartli and Imereti, Georgia
Officers of the police departments of Tbilisi, Adjara, Kvemo Kartli and Imereti
detained 16 people on drug charges after operational and investigative measures.[1]Police said those detained were accused of illegal acquisition and storage,
sale, attempted sale and facilitation of sale in an especially large amount,
illegal cultivation of plants containing narcotic substances and illegal use
without a doctor’s prescription.[2]The alleged crimes carry up to 20 years in
prison or life imprisonment.[2]
On the basis of a judge’s order, police carried out controlled purchases of
drugs and secretly recorded them with audio and video.[1]Searches of the
accused persons’ belongings and homes, a specially equipped greenhouse for
cultivating plants containing narcotic substances and locations they indicated
during investigative experiments recovered batches intended for sale described
as especially large.[2]The seizure list included methamphetamine, cocaine,
buprenorphine, clephedrone, methadone, alpha-PVP, marijuana and the cannabis
plant.[2]Police seized the illegally sold drugs, materials needed for
packaging and cultivation of narcotic substances and cash as physical evidence.[1]
The investigation is proceeding under articles 260, 260 terzia, 19-260 terzia,
260 kvarta, 261, 265 prima and 273 of Georgia’s Criminal Code.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
16
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis
Activity
Cultivation
Setting
Home, Prison
Grown
Greenhouse
Case stage
Under investigation
Sentence
Life imprisonment
Sources
SOVAsovanews.tvRUМВД Грузии: 16 человек задержаны за обвинение в наркопреступлении
Georgia Onlineapsny.geRUПолиция задержала в Тбилиси и регионах 16 человек по обвинению в наркопреступлениях
Open questions the AI reported
No weight for the marijuana and no count for the cannabis plants were published, so no kilograms or plants can be recorded.
No breakdown shows how many of the 16 were held for cannabis as opposed to the other listed substances.
The operation was carried out at various times with no separate incident date given; 28 July 2025 is the publication and announcement date used as the incident date.
Full names were not published in the opened captures, only the second source's account of initials with birth years including previously convicted persons and foreign citizens.
No custody decisions or court outcome were reported; the investigation was still under way.
Methamphetamine, cocaine, buprenorphine, clephedrone, methadone and alpha-PVP are mentioned only to explain the mixed seizure and are excluded from cannabis figures.
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