The Kayseri governor’s office said in a written statement that provincial police teams from the Anti-Smuggling and Organized Crime Branch stopped a passenger bus on the Kayseri–Malatya highway.[1] Officers searched with narcotics dog Sedef and found cannabis inside a sports bag in the bus’s baggage compartment.[1] The seizure weighed 3 kilograms 953 grams (3.953 kg).[2] The cannabis was wrapped in transparent plastic, then covered by six layers of white stretch film, one blue plastic layer and five layers of packing tape.[1]
One suspect, identified by the initials E.U., was taken into custody in connection with the case and remanded on the stated drug dealing and transport allegation.[2] The Turkish offence cited was “Uyuşturucu Madde Ticareti Yapmak ve Nakletmek,” meaning dealing in and transporting narcotic substances.[2] This operation combined a roadside stop and luggage search with a cannabis seizure and one suspect’s remand in the same case during a single police action.[1]
