34-year-old courier held in Komi with 1.3 kg hashish in caches
Police in Komi detained a 34-year-old Arkhangelsk courier and found 6.5 grams of hashish in his car. Caches he made in Ukhta and Syktyvdinsky District yielded more than 1.3 kilograms of hashish alongside mephedrone.
🇷🇺 Syktyvdinsky District and Ukhta, Komi Republic · Russia
Police in the Komi Republic stopped a car driven by a 34-year-old resident of
Arkhangelsk Oblast on the outskirts of Syktyvdinsky District.[1]Searching the
car, police found a wrap of dark-green substance hidden inside a binocular case
in the cabin.[1]Testing identified the seized material as hashish weighing
6.5 grams.[1]
Officers detained the driver, saying he worked as a wholesale courier-stash
maker for a shadow online drug shop.[1]He had collected a master stash of
about 4 kilograms from a curator-directed location, divided it and placed it in
hiding places across two regions.[1]Police located his caches in the city of
Ukhta and Syktyvdinsky District and seized about 1 kilogram of mephedrone and
more than 1.3 kilograms of hashish there.[1]Police in Arkhangelsk Oblast
separately seized more than 1.5 kilograms of mephedrone and 50 grams of cocaine
from a forest cache he had made there.[1]
Investigators opened a criminal case for attempted sale on an especially large
scale under part 3 of article 30 and point g of part 5 of article 228.1.[1]The man was remanded in custody for the investigation.[1]Police said they
were continuing operational and investigative measures to establish the
circumstances and the supply channels.[1]
Case data
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Police in Volgograd's Krasnoarmeysky district detained a 57-year-old man on suspicion of selling cannabis, seizing 20 wraps on his person and 16 more in his garage. The seized cannabis weighed 30 grams, and a criminal case was opened under part 2 of article 228.1, which carries 5 to 12 years in prison.
Police in Lipetsky municipal okrug detained a 42-year-old villager who had grown six cannabis bushes in his yard and kept a jar of finished drug in his garage. Officers seized more than 1.9 kg of plants and 13.1 g of ready-to-use drug, and opened a large-scale storage case punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
Police in Zaraysky district detained a 41-year-old man who allegedly grew cannabis in a greenhouse on his plot in Chulki-Sokolovo. Officers seized four boxes holding more than one kilogram of marijuana and opened a criminal case under part 2 of article 228.
Police on the R-404 road near Nefteyugansk detained a 42-year-old courier carrying about 14.5 kg of hashish hidden in his UAZ Pickup. A criminal case for attempted large-scale drug sale was opened and the man was placed in custody.
