Police seize 12 cannabis plants from a yard in Paisiy, Gorna Oryahovitsa
Officers from the Gorna Oryahovitsa district police department seized 12 planted hemp plants from the yard of a property in Paisiy village, lived in by a foreign national, during a specialised operation on 11 October 2026. A field test indicated marijuana, and the plants were taken away under a pre-trial proceeding while the inquiry continued; no arrest was reported.
🇧🇬 Paisiy village, Gorna Oryahovitsa municipality, Veliko Tarnovo Province · Bulgaria
Police from the district police department in Gorna Oryahovitsa seized 12 plants
of the hemp genus from a property in the village of Paisiy, the regional
Interior Ministry directorate in Veliko Tarnovo said.[1]The check was made
the day before the announcement, during a specialised police operation against
crime and for public order.[1]
Twelve planted plants were found in the yard of the property, which is lived in
by a foreign national.[1]The check was carried out at a property lived in by
a foreign national, within a police operation against crime and for public
order.[2]A pre-trial proceeding was opened over the case and the
investigation was continuing.[2]
Police said the work on the opened pre-trial proceeding was continuing.[1]The
Gorna Oryahovitsa police officers seized the 12 plants during the specialised
operation in Paisiy.[2]
The find followed a separate case in which police found six jars of marijuana in
a home in Svishtov at the end of September.[3]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Plants destroyed
12
Sites
1
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Living plants (12 plants)
Activity
Cultivation
Setting
Home
Grown
Outdoor
Case stage
Under investigation
Region
Veliko Tarnovo Province
Sources
БТАbta.bgBGПолицаи от Горна Оряховица иззеха 12 растения от рода на конопа от селски имот, обитаван от чужд гражданин
NewsPoint.bgnewspoint.bgBGПолицията откри 12 растения коноп в имот, обитаван от чужденец край Горна Оряховица
The announcement says the check was made "yesterday" relative to 12 October 2026, so 11 October 2026 is used as the incident date.
No arrest, detention or charge was reported; the regional directorate named no suspect and described the property's occupant only as a foreign national.
No weight of plant material, area or value was published, so no kilogram or hectare figure is recorded.
The plants were identified only by a field drug test that reacted to marijuana; the accounts do not report laboratory confirmation.
The accounts reproduce the same regional interior ministry statement, so there is no independent confirmation of the find.
Coordinates are for the village centre of Paisiy; the sources name no more precise location for the property.
The property is recorded as a home setting because the plants grew in the yard of an inhabited property, not in an open field or plantation.
The page picture is an archive image credited to the BTA correspondent, not confirmed to show this yard, so it is linked rather than treated as showing the find.
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