Officers of the Interior Ministry’s Main Directorate for the North Caucasus Federal District and Pyatigorsk police stopped the activity of a 47-year-old local man suspected of contactless sale of drugs.[1] The man was detained while preparing a hiding place for a prohibited substance.[1] The resident said he had started working as a drug dealer at the start of 2025 and that an anonymous curator had promised to pay him for distributing the drugs.[1]

A search of his person recovered the stash he had just placed.[1] Police later found 30 more caches holding drugs prepared for further sale.[1] At the man’s home officers found more than 1.4 kilograms of synthetic drugs and over 300 grams of hashish, along with packaging materials and scales.[1] AiF Stavropol relayed the police account that officers seized more than 1.4 kilograms of synthetic substances and over 300 grams of hashish from the 47-year-old Pyatigorsk man.[2] AiF Stavropol reported that police later found 30 more caches and seized the main part of the drugs at his home, over 1.4 kg of synthetics and 300 g of hashish with packaging and scales.[2]

Investigators of the Zheleznovodsk city police department opened a criminal case for attempted sale of narcotics under part 3 of article 30 and part 5 of article 228.1 of the Russian Criminal Code.[1] He was detained under article 91 of the Russian Code of Criminal Procedure.[1] He faces up to 20 years in prison, which is the maximum penalty for the charge rather than a sentence.[1]