Kyiv woman held after police found 230 drug packages, including cannabis, in a park
Police in Kyiv's Holosiivskyi district detained a 41-year-old woman they saw burying drug packages in a park and seized about 230 packages of drugs, including cannabis, alpha-PVP, MDMA, mephedrone and amphetamine. A court ordered her held without bail on suspicion of selling an especially dangerous psychotropic in especially large amounts, a charge carrying up to 12 years in prison.
🇺🇦 Park in Holosiivskyi district, Kyiv · Ukraine
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Police in Kyiv’s Holosiivskyi district detained a 41-year-old Kyiv woman who was
found digging soil in a park to hide drug packages.[1][2]Officers of the city
police’s drug crime unit called in an investigative team after noticing her
suspicious behaviour.[3]Police said she sold cannabis along with alpha-PVP,
MDMA and mephedrone through so-called zakladky, packages hidden in public places
whose locations are sent to buyers.[3][2]
In her pockets officers found 60 packages of alpha-PVP, 10 of MDMA, 10 of
mephedrone and 10 of a drug-containing liquid.[1][2]A search of her home turned
up almost 140 more pre-packed packages of cannabis, alpha-PVP and amphetamine.[3][4][2]In total police seized about 230 packages of drugs prepared for
distribution.[3][4]
She was detained under article 208 of Ukraine’s Criminal Procedure Code, which
governs detention of a suspect.[3]Holosiivskyi police investigators,
supervised by the district prosecutor’s office, notified her of suspicion under
part 3 of article 307 of the Criminal Code for acquiring and storing an
especially dangerous psychotropic substance for sale in especially large
amounts.[3]The article carries a penalty of up to 12 years in prison with
confiscation of property.[1]At the investigators’ request a court ordered her
held in custody without the right to post bail.[1][4][2]The investigation is
continuing, and under article 62 of Ukraine’s Constitution she is presumed
innocent until a court verdict establishes guilt.[1]
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Kyiv police photo 1 of 5 published with the report on the detention in the Holosiivskyi park. Photo: Kyiv policePhoto details
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No weight, count of doses or value was published for the cannabis found in her home or the packages in the park, and the 230 packages mix cannabis with PVP, MDMA, mephedrone, amphetamine and a drug-containing liquid, so no cannabis quantity is recorded.
The reports give only the publication date of 9 November 2026 and no separate date for the detention or the search, so that date is used as the incident date.
The woman is identified only as a 41-year-old Kyiv resident; no name, court or hearing date and no trial outcome were reported, and the investigation was continuing.
The suspicion is recorded under part 3 of article 307 for an especially dangerous psychotropic substance; the reports do not say which substance the charge itself concerns.
Alpha-PVP, MDMA, mephedrone and amphetamine are mentioned only to explain the mixed seizure and are excluded from the cannabis figures.
The photos are police handout images published without captions describing each frame, so only the police page was used for media.
The outlet republishes the same Kyiv police statement as the other accounts and gives no date for the detention itself.
It gives no weight or separate count for the cannabis in the nearly 140 mixed packages found at her home.
Police in Kyiv detained a 38-year-old man carrying 21 postal parcels with 100 grams of amphetamine, then found about 2.5 kilograms of prohibited substances in his flat, including cannabis and cookies with cannabis extract. He was notified of suspicion under part 3 of article 307 and a court ordered him held without bail.
Police in Kirovohrad Oblast searched the home of a 31-year-old man in Novoukrainskyi Raion and seized 500 grams of cannabis he was keeping for sale. He was detained and notified of suspicion under part 2 of article 307 of Ukraine's Criminal Code, which carries 6 to 10 years in prison.
Police detained three people, one a serving soldier, accused of growing cannabis in a greenhouse in Lviv Oblast, processing it and selling it in Lviv and the region, and said they seized about 15 kilograms worth some 4.5 million hryvnia on the black market. All three were notified of suspicion under Article 307 of the Criminal Code.
Police in Rivne stopped a 35-year-old man as he collected a postal delivery at a parcel locker on Viacheslava Chornovola Street on 6 November and seized about 500 grams of cannabis, valued at about 200,000 hryvnias. A pretrial investigation is under way under part 1 of article 309 of Ukraine's Criminal Code for unlawful possession of drugs.
