Man held in Georgia with 89 marijuana wraps and about 1 kg of drugs
Georgia's Central Criminal Police detained a previously convicted man on charges of large-scale drug acquisition, storage and facilitating sale, and said a personal search found about one kilogram of drugs prepared for sale plus 89 packaged wraps of marijuana. Police also seized packaging materials; the charges carry up to 20 years or life.
🇬🇪 Georgia
Arrested
1
Cannabis
1 kg
Agency
Central Criminal Police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia
Officers of Georgia’s Interior Ministry Central Criminal Police Department
detained a previously convicted man on charges of illegally acquiring and
storing a large quantity of drugs and of facilitating their sale.[1]A
personal search found drugs prepared for sale, about one kilogram of them, and
89 packaged wraps of the drug marijuana, which police seized as evidence.[1]
The Interior Ministry said police also seized materials intended for packaging
drugs.[1]The investigation is running under articles 260 and 260-1 of
Georgia’s Criminal Code, which carry up to 20 years in prison or life
imprisonment.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Cannabis
1 kg
Agency
Central Criminal Police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis
Activity
Possession, Sale
Charge
illegal acquisition and storage of drugs in an especially large quantity and facilitating their sale (articles 260 and 260-1 of the Criminal Code)
Case stage
Under investigation
Date
Publication date
Sources
1TV1tv.geRUArchived copyПравоохранители изъяли наркотики в особо крупном размере, один человек задержан
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The article gives no date, time or place for the detention; 10 July 2026 is its own publication date and stands in for the incident date.
The report does not say where the personal search took place, so only the country is recorded, not a town or district.
Police describe about one kilogram of narcotic drugs prepared for sale and separately 89 packaged wraps of marijuana; the statement does not say how much of the kilogram is marijuana and how much is another drug, so the cannabis weight cannot be separated.
The man's age, nationality and where he is held were not published; the report only says he was previously convicted.
No court outcome, custody decision or plea was reported; the case was at the investigation stage.
No street value was estimated, and only the 1TV account could be opened, so the figures rest on one outlet's repetition of the Interior Ministry statement.
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