Serbian man jailed 12 months, fined 3,000 euros over drugs found in motorcycle after Mosta crash
Milos Miletic, 38, was sentenced to 12 months in prison and fined 3,000 euros after admitting nine charges, including possession of cannabis and cannabis resin, cocaine and other drugs found hidden in his motorcycle. Police found the drugs when they investigated the motorcycle accident in Mosta that left him seriously injured on 29 September 2026.
Milos Miletic, a 38-year-old Serbian man, was sentenced to 12 months in prison
and fined 3,000 euros after admitting to all nine charges against him before
Magistrate Caroline Farrugia Frendo.[1]The charges included possession of
cannabis and cannabis resin, along with cocaine, MDMA, ketamine, 2C-B and other
psychoactive substances in circumstances indicating the drugs were not for his
personal use.[1]He was also charged with driving without insurance and
driving carelessly, negligently or dangerously in Mosta.[1]
The case began on 29 September 2026, when Miletic was in a motorcycle accident
in Mosta that left him seriously injured.[1]Police investigations after the
accident led them to the drugs concealed in a compartment of his motorcycle.[1]He had first pleaded not guilty at his arraignment the previous month and
reversed that plea on Thursday.[1]
The court took account of his clean criminal record and relatively early guilty
plea, and noted that the offences carry a mandatory effective prison sentence.[1]The court ordered the destruction of the drugs once the judgment becomes
final and told him to pay the expenses of court-appointed experts.[1]He was
also disqualified from driving for 12 months.[1]A copy of the judgment was
ordered sent to Home Affairs Minister Glenn Bedingfield should deportation be
required.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Charged
1
Prison
12 months
Fine
EUR 3,000
Agency type
Police, Prosecutor
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis; Hashish
Activity
Possession
Setting
Vehicle, Home, Street or public place
Charges
possession of cannabis and cannabis resin in circumstances indicating the drugs were not for personal use; driving without insurance; driving carelessly, negligently or dangerously
No weight or value was published for the cannabis, cannabis resin or the other drugs found in the motorcycle.
The length of preventive custody deducted from the 12-month term is not given.
The article does not say whether a deportation order has been issued; it only records that the judgment was sent to the home affairs minister should deportation be required.
The article does not give the date of the guilty plea beyond saying it was on the Thursday before its 6 November 2026 publication; 5 November 2026 is inferred from that wording rather than stated.
Abdoulie Sillah, a Gambian national also recorded in Malta as Abdoulie Diakite from Mali, was sentenced to three years in prison for offering two police officers €20,000 to release him after they caught him with cannabis in Marsa. The magistrate convicted him of attempted bribery and carrying a knife but acquitted him of drug possession because the forensic expert's report was not submitted.
Judge Natasha Galea Sciberras jailed Leo Galea, 48, of Mosta, for eight years after he admitted trafficking 14.5 kg of cannabis resin instead of standing trial. The resin was put at about 16 percent purity and an estimated 328,000 euros. He was also fined 15,000 euros.
Hou Lo Kah, 33, was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment and fined €20,000 after pleading guilty on 16 March 2026 to importing 13.984 kilogrammes of cannabis found in his suitcase when he landed at Malta International Airport from Dubai on 18 March 2025.
Arrested 1Charged 1Cannabis 13.984 kgPrison 12 years
Malta's Court of Criminal Appeal on 31 October 2013 upheld the 10-year, six-month sentence and €23,000 fine given to Briton Daniel Holmes for growing five cannabis plants at his Gozo home, leaving his family to weigh a constitutional or European court challenge.
