Detained 65-year-old in Koper found with a small quantity of cannabis
Police in Koper detained a 65-year-old man after a drunken public-order incident in which he fell, insulted a passer-by and hit him, and officers seized a small quantity of cannabis from him during the procedure. The Koper Police Administration said a payment order for the violations and a fast-track procedure would follow.
A 65-year-old man fell and injured himself because he was heavily drunk, then
began insulting a passer-by and hit him.[1]He carried on with the disturbance
after officers arrived, so they detained him.[1]During the procedure officers
seized a small quantity of cannabis from him.[1]The Koper Police
Administration’s own daily report describes the same detention, the fall and the
seizure of a small quantity of cannabis.[2]
Police said a payment order for the violations and a fast-track procedure would
follow.[1]The account came from the Koper Police Administration, whose press
officer issued the daily report.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The cannabis amount is given only as 'a small quantity' (manjša količina), with no weight or product form stated.
The material is described as cannabis (konoplja) without laboratory confirmation or a stated form such as herbal cannabis or resin.
The place within Koper where the man was dealt with is not named; the reports do not say whether it was a street, a public place or a home.
No value estimate, charge wording or court outcome was reported; police said only that a payment order and a fast-track procedure would follow.
The man is identified only by age, with no name, nationality or residence published.
The two cited pages carry the same Koper Police Administration daily report, so they are not independent accounts.
The same round-up reports a separate Koper traffic stop where a 52-year-old driver tested positive for cannabis and cocaine; that is a different event and is not covered here.
The round-up's lead story, a collision that injured a Hungarian runner in Malija on 7 November, is a separate event left out of this report.
Nova Gorica police searched the home of a 51-year-old British citizen in the municipality of Kanal ob Soči on 3 November and seized eight suspected cannabis plants up to 2.3 metres tall, plus drying stems and dried plant material. Police also fined him for overstaying in the Schengen area and ordered him to leave the country.
Ljubljana District Court ordered pre-trial detention for 13 of the 15 suspects brought before an investigating judge after 41 house searches across Slovenia and 34 arrests in a four-year international drug probe. Two went under house arrest, and in November the court extended detention by two months for most defendants; police seized 51 kilograms of cannabis in Slovenia.
Slovenian police with Europol and 22 forces ended a four-year probe on 6 October 2026, arresting 34 suspects in Slovenia plus two abroad and seizing over three tonnes of cannabis within a multi-drug haul; a Ljubljana court remanded 13 in custody.
Police from Murska Sobota searched the homes of two suspects in the Lendava and Murska Sobota administrative units and seized several larger cannabis seedlings, a larger quantity of dried plants, ammunition, a knuckleduster and a firearm silencer. No arrest was reported; police said a criminal complaint would follow laboratory analyses.
