The Haskovo regional police directorate said criminal investigators from its Harmanli department checked a Volkswagen driven by a 45-year-old man near the village of Kolarovo.[1] A search of the car found a packet wrapped in clear tape weighing 1.1 kg.[1] The packet contained green inflorescences resembling cannabis.[1]

Officers then searched a property inhabited by the man in the village of Svirkovo.[2] There they found two more packets of inflorescences with a combined weight of 400 grams.[2] Immediately next to the property, in an uninhabited half-ruined house, investigators found two barrels.[1] The barrels held 17 sealed vacuum-packed packets with the same contents weighing 3 kg in total.[1]

The man, who is known to law enforcement, admitted that the narcotic substance was his.[1] He was detained for up to 24 hours under the pre-trial proceedings opened in the case.[1] Together, the car packet, the two packets in the inhabited property and the 17 vacuum-packed packets in the barrels amounted to 4.5 kg of seized drug.[2]