57-year-old held in Petropavlovsk with over 463 g of hashish
Police in Petropavlovsk detained a 57-year-old man suspected of selling drugs by hand and seized three wraps of hashish, plus more drugs packaged for sale at his home. The total weighed over 463 grams of hashish, and an investigation was opened under Kazakhstan's drug-sale law.
🇰🇿 Petropavlovsk, North Kazakhstan Region · Kazakhstan
Police in North Kazakhstan Region detained a 57-year-old Petropavlovsk resident
suspected of selling drugs.[1]According to police, the man sold prohibited
substances “from hand to hand.”[1]Officers seized three wraps of hashish from
him at the time of detention.[1]A search at his residence found additional
batches of drugs packaged for sale and homemade devices for using them.[1]
The total weight of the seized hashish was over 463 grams.[1]A medical
examination found the detainee was under narcotic intoxication caused by
cannabinoid use.[1]His acts were qualified under Article 297, part 3 of
Kazakhstan’s Criminal Code as illegal storage of narcotic substances for sale on
an especially large scale.[1]An investigation was under way.[2]
Since the start of the year, police in the region had stopped 96 drug offences.[1]In that period about 12 kilograms of drugs had been taken out of
circulation, including about 7.5 kg of synthetics.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Cannabis
463 g
Agency
North Kazakhstan Region Police Department
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Hashish (463 g)
Setting
Home
Charge
illegal storage of narcotic substances for sale on an especially large scale (Article 297(3) of the Criminal Code of Kazakhstan)
Case stage
Under investigation
Region
North Kazakhstan Region
Sources
МТРКmtrk.kzRUПочти полкилограмма гашиша изъяли полицейские у жителя Петропавловска
Polisia.kzpolisia.kzRUПочти полкилограмма гашиша изъяли полицейские у жителя Петропавловска
Open questions the AI reported
No separate date for the detention is given; 30 April 2026 is the publication date of both sources and is used as the incident date.
The hashish weight is reported as over 463 grams, not an exact measured figure.
No pretrial measure, charge status beyond the stated qualification, or court outcome was reported.
The year-to-date regional totals include synthetic drugs, so only the 463 grams of hashish is counted as cannabis in this report.
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