Thirteen held as North Macedonia police seize marijuana in five towns
Police in North Macedonia detained 13 people aged 18 to 46 in drug operations in Skopje, Prilep, Demir Kapija, Bogovinje and Štip on 30 and 31 October 2026, seizing marijuana, white powder and tablets. The Interior Ministry said charges would follow once the cases were documented; no weights were given.
🇲🇰 Skopje, Prilep, Demir Kapija, Bogovinje and Štip · North Macedonia
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On 30 and 31 October 2026, police in Skopje, Prilep, Demir Kapija, Bogovinje and
Štip detained 13 people aged between 18 and 46, the Ministry of Interior said.[1] Marijuana, white powdered and granular substances, and tablets were found
and seized from them.[1] In Skopje, police detained nine people — six from the
capital, a 19-year-old from the Ilinden neighbourhood, a 35-year-old from the
village of Novo Selo and a 46-year-old from Kočani — after marijuana, white
powder and white granular material were found on them.[1]
Prison police searching a 32-year-old convicted man at Prilep prison found
powdered substances, several tablets of different colours and items containing
powder.[1] In Štip, police detained a 26-year-old man from Skopje.[1]
Officers noticed he was using marijuana and seized the cigarette butt he
discarded.[1] In the village of Bogovinje, police detained a 44-year-old man
from Pirok after marijuana was found on him.[1] In Demir Kapija, a 29-year-old
man from the village of Korešnica was detained after a search found white powder
and a tablet.[1]
The authorities were informed in all the cases, and the ministry said
appropriate charges would be filed once the cases were fully documented.[2]
Sources
- Thirteen individuals were deprived of their freedom, with marijuana, powdered substances, and tablets seized. Ministry of Interior of the Republic of North Macedonia, 31 October 2026.
- 13 ЛИЦА ПРИВЕДЕНИ ВО ПОЛИЦИСКИ АКЦИИ НИЗ МАКЕДОНИЈА: Пронајдени марихуана, таблети и прашкасти материи. 24chasa.mk, 31 October 2026. In Macedonian.
Open questions the AI reported
- No weight was published for the marijuana, the white powder or the tablets; the ministry gives only that they were found and seized.
- The ministry did not say which of the 13 detainees are suspected over cannabis and which over the white powder or tablets, so the arrest count covers the whole roundup.
- No charges had been filed and no court dates were reported; the ministry said only that appropriate charges would follow.
- The detections were made on 30 and 31 October 2026 and published together, with no single date given for the roundup.
- The only other account found, by 24chasa, repeats the ministry's statement.
- The ministry's page carries a close-up of cannabis, white powder and handcuffed wrists captioned with the headline, which does not establish it as a photograph of these arrests, so no media entry is given.
