Cannabis-smoking driver and his passenger suspected of drug offences in Kemijärvi
A Lapland police patrol in Kemijärvi stopped a car whose driver blew zero per mille but which smelled of cannabis; the driver admitted smoking before driving and a roadside drug test was positive. Police suspect the driver of drug-impaired driving and a drug-use offence, and the passenger of a drug-use offence after a small amount of cannabis was found on him.
🇫🇮 Kemijärvi, Lapland · Finland
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A police patrol conducting traffic surveillance in Kemijärvi stopped a vehicle
whose driver blew a reading of zero per mille in the breath test.[1]According
to police, the smell of cannabis was coming from inside the car.[1]The stop
was one of many tasks for the Lapland police department over a busy weekend,
alongside a pizzeria incident in Tornio and other matters.[1]
The driver admitted he had smoked cannabis before setting off.[1]A roadside
drug test that police gave the driver came back positive for cannabis.[1]Police suspect the driver of drug-impaired driving and of a drug-use offence.[1]The car’s passenger is also suspected of a drug-use offence because police
found a small amount of cannabis in his possession.[1]
The Lapland police department’s own weekend statement records a separate
suspected drug-impaired driving case from the same weekend in Keminmaa, not in
Kemijärvi.[2]
The article gives no date for the traffic stop; it appeared in a roundup published on 9 November 2026, and that publication date is used as the incident date.
No weight or quantity was given for the cannabis found in the passenger's possession; the article says only "a small amount" (pieni määrä).
The article does not say whether the driver or passenger was arrested, cautioned or released, or whether any charges have been filed.
It is not clear whether the patrol was in Kemijärvi town or elsewhere in the municipality.
The Lapland police department's own weekend statement, published on 8 November 2026 and cited here, does not describe the Kemijärvi cannabis stop in the text opened and places a separate suspected drug-impaired driving case from the same weekend in Keminmaa, so the Kemijärvi account could not be corroborated there.
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