Police officers acting on operational information detained a 39-year-old resident of the village of Malokakhovka in Kakhovsky district of Kherson Oblast on suspicion of illegal drug trafficking.[1] The search took place at his private household, in the garage.[1] There officers found four cardboard boxes and one metal and one plastic container filled with plant material smelling of marijuana.[1] The Kherson Oblast directorate’s press service put the total weight at about three kilograms and said the material was at various stages of drying.[1]

The man gave a confessional statement and said he had kept the cannabis both for personal consumption and for further sale.[1] Everything seized was sent for examination to the forensic centre of the Russian Interior Ministry’s Kherson Oblast directorate.[1] Officials said they were deciding whether to open a criminal case on signs of crimes under articles 228 and 228.1 of the Russian Criminal Code, which cover illegal possession and illegal sale of drugs.[1]