Klaipėda District Court sentenced a former officer of the Klaipėda Regional Police Directorate to 10 years in prison for possession and transport of a very large quantity of narcotic and psychotropic substances, the General Prosecutor’s Office announced.[1] The 30-year-old officer was stopped by police on 9 May 2025 in the Klaipėda district while travelling from Vilnius to the Klaipėda district in his Audi.[1] During a search of the Audi, officers found a very large quantity – 165 grams – of the psychotropic substances 3-chlormethylcatinone (3-CMC), MDMA and 4-bromomethylcatinone (4-BMC), as well as cannabis.[1] The same evening, a second car belonging to him, a BMW parked in Kretinga, was searched on 10 May 2025 and powder containing 3-CMC was found inside.[1]
The court found that he had admitted buying the drugs several times, the last time when he was detained by police.[1] Information recovered from his mobile phone confirmed that he may have distributed the drugs to other people and earned income from it.[1] The court stated that these actions not only violated the law but also discredited the police, damaged its reputation and diminished public trust in officers.[1]
When imposing the sentence, the court considered the officer’s status as a long-serving police officer who should have ensured the prevention and detection of offences, and noted that he had unlawfully dealt in new synthetic psychotropic substances, 3-CMC and 4-BMC, which pose a serious threat to people’s health.[1] The Criminal Code prescribes 10 to 15 years of imprisonment for the unlawful handling of a very large quantity of narcotic or psychotropic substances, and the 10-year sentence is the lowest limit of that sanction.[1] The pre-trial investigation was carried out by the Police Department’s Integrity Directorate, led by a prosecutor of the Organised Crime and Corruption Investigation Division of the Klaipėda District Prosecutor’s Office; when the case was transferred to the court, the prosecutor already called him a former officer.[1]
The judgment has not yet entered into force and may be appealed to the Lithuanian Court of Appeal.[1] LRT’s account of the verdict reports the same 10-year sentence, the 165-gram seizure of 3-CMC, MDMA, 4-BMC and cannabis in the Audi and the 3-CMC powder found in the BMW parked in Kretinga, all announced by the General Prosecutor’s Office on Friday.[2] The prosecutor’s announcement gave the exact date the substances in the car in the Klaipėda district were found: 9 May 2025, when they were seized during a search carried out by police.[1]
