Detectives of the Rivne Oblast police drug-crime unit stopped a 35-year-old Rivne resident near a parcel locker on Viacheslava Chornovola Street in Rivne shortly after 5 pm on 6 November, after he collected a postal delivery.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] The stop was based on intelligence the officers already held, and they searched the man on the spot.[9][3]

In the search officers found and seized cannabis weighing about 500 grams.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Rivne Oblast police put the street value of the seized cannabis at about 200,000 hryvnias (about 4,700 dollars).[9][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

A pretrial investigation is under way into unlawful possession of drugs under part 1 of article 309 of Ukraine’s Criminal Code, which covers acquiring and keeping drugs without intent to sell.[1][2][4][5][6][7][8] Investigators were still working to establish who else was involved in the circulation of the drugs, and the other circumstances of the offence.[1][3][4][5][7][8]

The three accounts reproduced the same statement from the Rivne Oblast police.[10]

The officers stopped him while acting on information they already held, rather than on a check triggered by the parcel itself.[3] On a superficial check the officers found the drug; police described it as cannabis according to preliminary data.[3] Investigators were still establishing the possible involvement of other people in the illegal circulation of drugs, alongside all the circumstances of the case.[3] The parcel-locker stop was announced by the police on 7 November.[3]

За даними поліції Рівненщини, чоловіка зупинили вчора близько 17 години біля поштомату, а вилучена речовина за попередніми даними є канабісом.[10]

ОГО.ua, whose headline says the man received the cannabis by post, reports that the drugs were found during a check of a parcel he had collected through the parcel locker.[3] The Rivne Oblast police made the stop public on 7 November, the day after it happened.[3] ОГО.ua put the black-market value of the seized drugs at about 200,000 hryvnias, the same figure other accounts attributed to police.[3]