Shirak criminal police received operational information that a 36-year-old resident of Kandilyan Street in Gyumri was illegally acquiring, storing and selling drugs.[1] Further work pointed to his uncle and a friend holding a large quantity of drugs, the uncle in a building in Vagramaberd village and the friend in a house on Kandilyan Street.[1] Investigators opened a criminal case over the matter.[1] After the 28 September searches, police detained the 36-year-old man and his uncle, while the preliminary investigation continued.[1]

Officers presented the overall result as 1.5 kg of marijuana seized.[1] At the 57-year-old uncle’s house in Vagramaberd, officers found more than 50 grams of marijuana, drug-making paraphernalia and 17 cannabis plants.[2] At the 48-year-old friend’s house, officers found packages of marijuana totalling 93 grams and more than 200 grams of marijuana in a plastic container.[1] At the 36-year-old Gyumri resident’s house, officers found three glass containers holding a total of more than 700 grams of marijuana, alongside a vial of methadone solution and other items.[1] A shed behind that building held about 200 grams more marijuana, plus cannabis seeds and droppers.[2] The same search also turned up droppers, cannabis seeds and white powder-like and crystal-like masses.[2]

The account was attributed to the press service of the republic’s Interior Ministry police.[1] The report lists only the 36-year-old man and his uncle as detained.[1]