Cannabis plants, ammunition and a silencer seized in two Pomurje house searches
Police from Murska Sobota searched the homes of two suspects in the Lendava and Murska Sobota administrative units and seized several larger cannabis seedlings, a larger quantity of dried plants, ammunition, a knuckleduster and a firearm silencer. No arrest was reported; police said a criminal complaint would follow laboratory analyses.
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Police from the Murska Sobota police station searched the homes of two suspects,
one from the Lendava administrative unit and one from the Murska Sobota
administrative unit, on a warrant from the District Court in Murska Sobota.[1][2]
In the two searches officers found and seized several larger seedlings suspected
to be prohibited cannabis and a larger quantity of dried plants also suspected
to be cannabis.[1][2]They also seized ammunition, a knuckleduster and a firearm
silencer.[1][2]
The Murska Sobota police administration said all the seized items had been sent
for analysis.[1][2]Once the analysis results arrive, officers will file a
criminal complaint against the two suspects and open misdemeanour proceedings,
the police administration said.[1]
The police treated the searches as part of a suspected offence of unauthorised
production of and trade in prohibited drugs, prohibited substances and doping
substances and precursors for making prohibited drugs, under article 186 of the
Slovenian criminal code.[3]
Lendavainfo reported that the searches were carried out at the two suspects’
homes and that the material was sent on to establish its exact composition.[3]
Pomurec reported the searches the same evening, attributing the account to the
Murska Sobota Police Administration.[4]
Sobotainfo, citing the same police administration, reported that officers seized
ammunition, a knuckleduster and a silencer as well as the plants.[5]
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Police handout photo of items seized in the two house searches, captioned "Policisti so našli in zasegli drogo, naboje in bokser". Photo: PUMS (Murska Sobota Police Administration)Photo details
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Source: Pomurski vestnik (Vestnik.si)Second police handout photo from the Lendava and Murska Sobota house searches, captioned "Policisti so našli in zasegli drogo, naboje in bokser". Photo: PUMS (Murska Sobota Police Administration)Photo details
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