Two Stavropol Krai men get up to 3 years 3 months for 1.4 kg of cannabis
A Levokumsky District court in Stavropol Krai sentenced two local men, aged 30 and 67, to two years and three years and three months in a general-regime penal colony for storing cannabis handed to them by acquaintances. Searches of their home found more than 1.4 kg of cannabis and more than 217 grams of explosive material, and the older man was also fined 5,000 roubles.
Two men from Levokumsky District in Stavropol Krai were convicted of illegally
storing narcotics and explosive substances, according to the region’s FSB
directorate and prosecutor’s office.[1]The court sentenced the 30-year-old to
two years and the 67-year-old to three years and three months in a
general-regime penal colony.[1]The older man was also ordered to pay a fine
of 5,000 roubles.[2]The sentence has not yet taken legal effect.[2]
In December 2025 the two men received cannabis from acquaintances to store for
them.[1]A search of the men’s home found and seized more than 1.4 kg of the
drug and more than 217 grams of explosive material.[3]The older man had found
a metal jar of smokeless powder, a propellant explosive, while grazing livestock
in November 2023 and had not handed it to the authorities.[1]He kept the jar
at his livestock point, and more than 0.7 kg of marijuana was stored next to it.[2]
The court found the man guilty on both counts, the narcotics and the explosives.[2]Cases against the people who handed the cannabis to the two men are being
considered separately.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Charged
2
Sentenced
2
Cannabis
1.4 kg
Prison
3 years 3 months
Fine
RUB 5,000
Agency
Courts of Stavropol Krai
Agency type
Court
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (1.4 kg)
Activity
Possession
Setting
Home, Farm
Charge
illegal storage of narcotics and explosive substances
Case stage
Sentenced
Sentence
Prison, Fine
Region
Stavropol Krai
Date
Publication date
Sources
1777.runews.1777.ruRUДвое ставропольцев получили сроки за хранение наркотиков и взрывчатого вещества
Победа26pobeda26.ruRUНа Ставрополье мужчину посадили на 3,3 года за марихуану и порох на ферме
Победа26pobeda26.ruRUДвое ставропольцев отправились в колонию за хранение наркотиков и пороха
Open questions the AI reported
The reports give no separate date for the ruling; 6 November 2026 is the date of the first report of the sentence and stands in for the incident date.
The court press service put the marijuana held by the older man at more than 0.7 kg, while the total found in the search of the men's home was reported as more than 1.4 kg; the report uses the total.
The explosive material is given as more than 217 grams by Pobeda26 and as about 220 grams by 1777.ru.
Neither man was named, and the settlement where they lived was not published.
No detention was reported in connection with the search, and no appeal against the sentence has been reported.
The outcome of the cases against the people who handed over the cannabis is not known.
A Blagoveshchensk city court sentenced a local man to four and a half years in a strict-regime penal colony for illegally acquiring and storing more than 23 kilograms of marijuana and cultivating 162 cannabis plants. He gathered the plant near Markovo in August 2025, hid it in an abandoned house in Belogorye, and tended sprouts in his own garden from May to July 2026.
The Bakhchisaray district court in Crimea convicted a resident of the village of Rechnoye under part 2 of article 228 and gave him three years of imprisonment, suspended, with a three-year probation period. Prosecutors said he picked leaves and flower heads from cannabis bushes he had planted at his home in July 2026 and kept 312 grams of the plant material in his outbuilding for his own use.
Convicted 1Sentenced 1Cannabis 312 gPrison 3 years suspended with 3-year probation
A court in Amur Oblast convicted a 20-year-old resident of Petropavlovka, in Ivanovsky District, of illegally buying a large consignment of cannabis in June and revoked his earlier suspended sentence. He was ordered to serve two and a half years in a general-regime penal colony after pleading guilty in full.
A court in Usman municipal okrug, Lipetsk Oblast, sentenced a local man to nine months in a strict-regime colony for illegally growing more than 30 cannabis bushes on the garden plot of his house. Prosecutors said he sowed the seeds for his own use, and the case was brought under part 1 of article 231 of Russia's Criminal Code.
