Two detained after indoor cannabis grow found in nine Mehedinți searches
Organized-crime police and DIICOT prosecutors searched nine addresses in Mehedinți on 23 February 2026, seizing 34 indoor cannabis plants, about 80 g of packaged cannabis and drug paraphernalia; two men aged 33 and 38 were detained on trafficking charges.
🇷🇴 Mehedinți County · Romania
- Arrested
- 2
- Plants destroyed
- 34
- Cannabis
- 0.1 kg
Police in Mehedinți and DIICOT prosecutors carried out nine home searches across the county on
23 February 2026 against two men, 33 and 38, suspected of buying, holding and selling cannabis
to users in Drobeta-Turnu Severin since 2025.[1][2] One was also accused of running an indoor
grow at his home for sale.[1][2]
Officers seized 34 cannabis plants at various stages of growth, about 80 grams of cannabis
portioned for sale, precision scales, grinders, items with drug traces and digital storage
devices.[1][2] Prosecutors ordered both men detained on 23 February and on 24 February asked a
judge for 30 days’ preventive arrest.[1][2] Gendarmes supported the searches.[1][2]
The communiqué reminded readers that suspects remain presumed innocent through the criminal
process.[1][2]
Sources
- Comunicat de presă - Inspectoratul General al Poliției Române (cultură indoor de canabis, Mehedinți). AGERPRES (Romanian General Police Inspectorate), 24 February 2026. In Romanian.
- Comunicat de presa 2 24.02.2026 (DIICOT Mehedinți). DIICOT (Romania), 24 February 2026. In Romanian.
Open questions the AI reported
- The map uses a Mehedinți County reference point. The communiqué does not locate the indoor grow within the county.
- The suspects were not named in the police communiqué.
- Whether the court granted the requested 30-day preventive arrest on 24 February was not reported here.
- The release does not say if the 34 plants were destroyed or kept as evidence.