Police on a Nitra housing estate detained a 24-year-old man after responding to a report of exotic animals, probably crocodiles, being carried out of a 12th-floor apartment. Officers smelled marijuana, found dried plant material with a grinder and began criminal proceedings over its unauthorised possession; the man said it was for his own use.
🇸🇰 Nitra housing estate, Nitra, Nitra Region · Slovakia
Police in Nitra detained a 24-year-old man after finding marijuana in an
apartment on a housing estate in the city.[1][2][3]Officers had gone to the address
to check a report that unknown people were carrying exotic animals, probably
crocodiles, out of the 12th-floor apartment.[1][4][2][3]A designated officer opened
criminal proceedings over the misdemeanour of unauthorised possession of a
narcotic and psychotropic substance.[1][4][2][3][5]The Nitra regional police directorate
said the check concerning animal keeping was passed to the competent authority
for further action.[1][4][3][5]
Officers from the rapid-response motorised unit went to verify the situation.[1][4][5]The police said that on reaching the floor they immediately heard sounds of
various animals and could clearly smell marijuana.[1][4][3]
The man said the material was his marijuana for personal use, and after being
asked he voluntarily handed it to the officers.[1][4][2][3][5]
Inside the apartment, officers saw a plastic tray and grinder containing unidentified dried plant material.[6][4][3][5]
Police compared the apartment to the home of the film animal detective Ace Ventura.[5]
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Police photograph published with the raid report; the paper describes its caption as a police photo without stating what it shows. Photo: Polícia SR – Nitriansky krajPhoto details
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Source: TERAZ.skFirst of nine police photographs published with the article and its photo gallery of the apartment intervention; the gallery is credited to the Facebook page of the Nitra regional police and states no further caption. Foto: FB: Polícia SR - Nitriansky krajPhoto details
Nový Čascas.skSKVeľký bizár v Nitre: Policajti išli do bytu preveriť krokodíly a našli tam... Na ten zásah nezabudnú
Noviny.sknoviny.skSKKrokodíly na 12. poschodí? Policajtov v Nitre privolali k zvláštnemu bytu, čakalo ich prekvapenie
Topky.sktopky.skSKAko z filmu Ace Ventura: Polícia v nitrianskom byte narazila na exotické zvieratá aj marihuanu!
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No weight, plant count or value for the marijuana was published, so no cannabis quantity can be recorded.
The article gives no separate date for the raid; 5 November 2026 is the article's publication date and is used as the incident date.
The man was detained but the report does not say whether he was formally charged or released, so no charged figure is recorded.
No court outcome or further procedural step was reported.
The apartment's address and the housing estate's name are not given, so the pin is the centre of Nitra.
Only one source, a TASR wire story quoting the Nitra regional police, could be opened; the police social-media post it cites could not be read.
The report does not say what happened to the animals, including any crocodiles, found in the apartment.
The photo's caption identifies it only as a police photo from the Nitra regional police; the article does not say what it shows.
The user reported the source text as unavailable, but the full article was opened and used; no evidence came from a failed fetch.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in TERAZ.sk (TASR): Inside the apartment, besides various animals, officers saw a plastic tray with a grinder holding an unidentified dried plant material.
The gallery's nine photographs are credited only to the police Facebook page and carry no individual captions, so what each frame shows cannot be established beyond the article's account of the apartment intervention; only the first photo has been linked.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Nitrak.sk: The Nitra regional police directorate said the check concerning animal keeping was passed to the competent authority for further action.
Noviny.sk credits the same Nitra regional police Facebook post as the earlier reports, so it is a re-report of the police account rather than independent reporting.
The page's images and an embedded animal-related video were left out because they duplicate the police handout already linked or do not show the marijuana seizure.
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