Police in Naberezhnye Chelny detained a 45-year-old local man on suspicion of unlawful drug trafficking.[1][2] Officers stopped the man near a house in the new part of the city.[1][3][2]

During an examination of his flat, police found two grow boxes for cultivating plants.[1][3][2] One box held cannabis bushes and the other held dried parts of plants.[1][2] Officers also found several more packets of plant material in the kitchen and on the balcony.[1][2] An expert examination found that the seized material included 451.04 grams of cannabis and 69.86 grams of marijuana, about 520.9 grams in total.[1][3][2]

Police later seized scales, a carbon filter, a lamp and fans from the suspect’s country house in a gardeners’ partnership in Tukayevsky district.[1][3][2] The detainee said he made the drugs for his own use.[1][3][2] He refused to undergo a medical examination, for which he was brought to administrative responsibility and given five days of arrest.[1][3][2] A criminal case was opened against him under part 2 of article 228 of the Criminal Code, which carries up to 10 years’ imprisonment.[1][3]