49-year-old held after 1.5 kg of home-grown marijuana seized in Podolsk
Moscow Oblast drug-control officers detained a 49-year-old Klimovsk resident and found 12 packets holding more than 1.5 kg of marijuana in his Podolsk home. He said he grew the cannabis on his garden plot; police opened an attempted large-scale sale case and a court jailed him pending trial.
Drug-control officers of the Interior Ministry directorate for the Podolsk urban
district detained a 49-year-old resident of the Klimovsk microdistrict on
suspicion of attempted sale of banned substances.[1]The Podolsk City Court
ordered the man held in custody pending the case.[1]A search of his home
found 12 plastic packets containing plant material.[1]
The seized material went to the Moscow Oblast Expert-Criminalistic Centre, whose
specialist concluded the samples were marijuana with a total weight of more than
1.5 kilograms.[1]The detainee said he bought cannabis seeds through the
shadow segment of the Internet the previous spring and grew them on his
household garden plot.[1]
He said he dried and ground the harvested crop and prepared it for further sale.[1]An investigator of the Podolsk Interior Ministry directorate’s
investigative department opened a criminal case for attempted large-scale drug
sale under part 3 of article 30 and part 4 of article 228.1 of the Russian
Criminal Code.[1]
Moscow Oblast Interior Ministry information chief Tatyana Petrova told the
Moscow city news agency that the packets held marijuana weighing more than 1.5
kg.[2]The Interior Ministry’s own account, republished with its press
release, says the packets were marijuana with a total mass of more than one and
a half kilograms.[3]
Photos and video
Plant material packaged in a clear plastic bag, with the Moscow Oblast police emblem at lower right, illustrating the seizure from the Klimovsk home. Photo: press service of the Moscow Oblast GU MVDPhoto details
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No separate date is given for the detention, search or remand ruling; 13 April 2026 is the MVD Media publication date and is used as the incident date.
The marijuana weight is stated only as more than 1.5 kilograms, so 1.5 is the reported floor rather than an exact laboratory figure.
The man is identified only as a 49-year-old Klimovsk resident and is not named.
No figure was published for the number of plants he allegedly grew on his garden plot or for its area.
No outcome beyond remand in custody and the opened attempted-sale case was reported.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Агентство городских новостей «Москва»: Petrova said the man had dried the plants he grew, ground them and packed them into the packets for later sale.
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