On the evening of Wednesday 21 January 2026, officers of Slovakia’s national drug unit searched a house in the centre of Pezinok under the cover name Kvetinár, SME reported.[1] They detained a man and a woman.[1] In the house they found a drug laboratory, several dozen kilograms of dried marijuana, a large number of cannabis plants, and equipment for growing and processing them.[1]

On 23 January an investigator of the national drug unit charged a 66-year-old man with the especially serious offence of unauthorised production of and trafficking in a narcotic and psychotropic substance, police spokesperson Lea Vilhanová said.[2][3] Across the house search and further searches of other premises and land, officers secured almost 20 kg of dried marijuana containing THC, worth at least 85,000 euros and corresponding to at least 8,560 single doses, almost 300 plants of the genus Cannabis, and further equipment for growing and processing them.[2][3]

SME’s photograph, credited to the police, shows the plants under lamps in the grow room.[2] Pravda published a still from police video of an officer, a photograph of officers holding a grey-haired man inside the house, and a second view of the same grow room.[3]