48-year-old held after 196 cannabis plants and 34.9 kg seized in East Kazakhstan
Police searching a 48-year-old man's home and yard in Glubokovsky District, East Kazakhstan Region, found 40 cannabis bushes indoors and another 156 in the garden, seizing 34.9 kg of material in total. The man was placed in temporary detention while a criminal case is investigated.
🇰🇿 Glubokovsky District, East Kazakhstan Region · Kazakhstan
East Kazakhstan police anti-drug and economic-crime units said they uncovered
unlawful cannabis cultivation and storage during the Karasora-2026 operation.[1]In Glubokovsky District, police came with a search to the home of a
48-year-old local resident.[2]In the house and outbuildings, officers found
wraps of plant material, dried plant parts and 40 bushes.[2]
The main find was in the vegetable garden, where police found another 156
cannabis bushes on the household plot.[1]Together with the earlier finds, the
total reached 196 bushes and the overall weight of what was seized reached 34.9
kg.[2]An expert examination confirmed that the seized material were narcotic
drugs.[2]
A 48-year-old resident of Glubokovsky District was detained over the haul.[1]The man was placed in a temporary detention centre, a criminal case was opened
and the investigation is continuing.[1]Police reminded the public that
growing and storing drug-containing plants can entail criminal liability, saying
what looked like an ordinary harvest became the basis for the criminal case.[1]
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The sources give no separate date for the search, so 3 September 2026, the publication date of both accounts, is used as the incident date.
No breakdown was published of how the 34.9 kg divides between dried plant material and whole bushes, so the weight and plant count cannot be reconciled.
The sources do not say whether a charge has been filed or under which article; the criminal case was still under investigation.
The man's name and the exact settlement were not published, so the place is recorded at district level.
Both accounts repeat the same police version and no independent account was found.
The same roundup's separate Pavlodar case of about 60 kg of dried marijuana and Almaty case of 392 g of mephedrone are left out as different events.
No photo can be linked because the roundup's images are credited only to polisia.kz with no descriptive caption establishing which, if any, shows this search.
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