Magadan court jails an ex-teacher for six years over cannabis cultivation
A Magadan court sentenced former polytechnic teacher Sergey Karmazov to six years in a strict-regime colony for cultivating cannabis and processing drugs after police found 35 plants and several large bags of marijuana at a relative's house; prosecutors also proved an attempted sale of more than four kilograms of dried plant material linked to an interrupted occult ritual in January 2025.
🇷🇺 Magadan · Russia
- Charged
- 1
- Plants destroyed
- 35
- Cannabis
- 4 kg
- Prison
- 6 years
A Magadan court sentenced former local polytechnic teacher Sergey Karmazov
to six years in a strict-regime penal colony for illegal cultivation of
narcotic plants and manufacture of narcotic drugs, a RIA Novosti correspondent
reported from the hearing on 19 November 2025.[1] Police had found two
equipped grow rooms at a relative’s house where Karmazov and students had
gathered for a ritual that officers interrupted in January 2025.[1]
Regional Interior Ministry spokesperson Kseniya Lukina told journalists that
officers seized 35 cannabis plants and several large bags of marijuana from
hidden rooms.[1] Investigators also established an attempted sale of more
than four kilograms of dried narcotic plant material.[1] Gazeta.Ru, citing
RIA, reported that Karmazov had tried to involve students in sacrificing a bull
for course credit and asked police to let him finish the rite.[2]
The court found Karmazov guilty of cultivating narcotic plants and processing
psychotropic substances and imposed six years’ imprisonment.[1]
Sources
- В Магадане оккультист и экс-преподаватель получил 6 лет за выращивание конопли. РИА Новости, 19 November 2025. In Russian. Archived copy.
- Суд в Магадане вынес приговор оккультисту за выращивание марихуаны. Газета.Ru, 19 November 2025. In Russian. Archived copy.
Open questions the AI reported
- Police interrupted the group in January 2025, but the published sources give no precise date for the November 2025 sentencing hearing beyond RIA's report from the courtroom.
- RIA quotes the regional Interior Ministry as saying more than four kilograms of dried material was linked to an attempted sale, without a precise weight for the seized bags of marijuana.
- Gazeta.Ru adds that officers found firearms during the search and that Karmazov allegedly bought a bull for one million roubles from drug proceeds; those details are not in the RIA courtroom report used here.
- Neither outlet names the relative whose house held the grow rooms or lists co-defendants from the January detention.
- Published photos are archive or stock images rather than pictures of this search or sentence.
