Aktobe police detain 33-year-old after finding 1.7 kg of marijuana
Police in Aktobe detained a 33-year-old man in a dacha settlement and found a bag of plant material on him, then seized more marijuana from a barn at his home. Experts put the total at more than 1.7 kilograms, and a medical examination found him intoxicated with drugs at the time.
🇰🇿 Aktobe · Kazakhstan
- Arrested
- 1
- Cannabis
- 1.7 kg
Police in Aktobe detained a 33-year-old man in a dacha settlement, an area of
summer-house and garden plots.[1] Officers stopped him for a check there and
found a bag of plant material on him.[1] A further search of his home turned
up another bag, holding 15 bundles, and a bag with similar contents in a barn on
the property.[1]
Experts identified the seized material as marijuana.[1] The Aktobe region
police department, cited by Diapazon, put the total weight at more than 1.7
kilograms.[1] A medical examination confirmed that the man was intoxicated
with drugs at the time he was detained.[1]
The police statement said officers recorded a case of illegal storage of
narcotic substances during “Safe Home” (Безопасный дом), an
operational-preventive operation.[2] It said the necessary measures were under
way to establish all the circumstances of the case.[2]
Sources
- Почти 2 кг марихуаны изъяли полицейские у актюбинца. Диапазон, 30 October 2026. In Russian.
- Мужчину с наркотическим опьянением задержали при хранении марихуаны в Актобе. Polisia.kz, 29 October 2026. In Russian.
Open questions the AI reported
- Neither report gives a separate date for the detention; 29 October 2026 is the date the police statement was published.
- The dacha settlement is not named, so the report gives only Aktobe.
- The Diapazon headline says "almost 2 kg" while its text and the police statement put the weight at more than 1.7 kg; the report uses 1.7 kg.
- No charge, prosecutor or court step is reported, and the man is not named.
- Both accounts come from the Aktobe region police department; no independent reporting of the case was found.
