Amur man sent to court over 4.5 kg of marijuana left in an abandoned car
Investigators in Svobodnensky district, Amur Oblast, finished their case against a 38-year-old who gathered wild cannabis near Novoivanovka, fled a traffic patrol, crashed and left the plants and his passport in the car. The seized material was identified as more than 4.5 kilograms of marijuana, and the case went to court under part 2 of article 228.
🇷🇺 Novoivanovka, Svobodnensky District, Amur Oblast · Russia
Investigators in Svobodnensky district, Amur Oblast, finished their inquiry into
a 38-year-old resident of the settlement of Orliny and sent his case to court.[1][2]The Amur Oblast interior ministry said the man was driving a borrowed
Toyota Mark II in the night of 31 August when he passed a pond near the village
of Novoivanovka.[1]Police said he spotted wild-growing cannabis by the
roadside and gathered it for his own use, putting the plants in the boot to dry
at home.[1][2]
Seeing a traffic police patrol car with its lights on, he tried to flee, lost
control, slid into a ditch, abandoned the car and ran home.[1]Officers of the
State Traffic Inspectorate who reached the car smelled a strong odour from the
boot and called in an investigative team, which found the gathered plants and
the passport he had left behind.[1]
The man came to the police voluntarily the next day and made a written
confession, and examination identified the seized material as marijuana weighing
more than 4.5 kilograms, a large quantity under Russian law.[1][2]He admitted
guilt and repented during the inquiry, was placed under a written undertaking
not to leave his place of residence, and the case file was sent to court.[1]He is being prosecuted under part 2 of article 228 of the Criminal Code, which
covers unlawful storage of drugs on a large scale.[3]PriamurMedia reported
that the man had previously faced criminal liability.[4]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Only the night of 31 August is given for the collection and the crash; the report gives no separate date for the arrest or the confession the next day.
The weight is stated as more than 4.5 kilograms, so 4.5 kg is used as a floor figure.
No sentence or court outcome was reported; the case had only been sent to court.
The second outlet describes finding a plantation of drug-containing plants, while the others say wild cannabis by the roadside; no eradication of that site is reported.
The reported prior criminal record does not say what it was for.
The photograph is an archive picture issued by the Amur Oblast interior ministry, not a photo of this car.
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