Rostov police jail a man after finding 419 cannabis plants and a basement grow room
Rostov drug officers searched a 44-year-old unemployed man's Pervomaysky district homestead, seized 419 live cannabis plants from his yard and a lit basement grow room, found 200 grams of dried marijuana, jailed him, and opened large-scale cultivation and possession cases.
🇷🇺 Pervomaysky district, Rostov-on-Don · Russia
- Arrested
- 1
- Plants destroyed
- 419
- Cannabis
- 200 g
Rostov drug-control officers detained a 44-year-old unemployed city
resident after searching his homestead in the Pervomaysky district on
17 June 2026, DONNEWS.RU reported.[1]
Officers found cannabis planted along garden paths and, in the basement,
a grow room with artificial lighting, ventilation and plants in buckets,
plus dried plant material.[1] They seized 419 live plants and 200 grams
of marijuana.[2]
The man told investigators he had bought seeds online about a year earlier
and grown the crop for personal use.[2] Investigators opened criminal
cases under parts 2 of articles 228 and 231 of the Criminal Code and a
court jailed him pending trial.[1]
Sources
- В Ростове полицейские обнаружили плантацию конопли и подвальную наркооранжерею. DONNEWS.RU, 17 June 2026. In Russian.
- Целую плантацию подсудных растений нашли в ростовской усадьбе. Про Город, 17 June 2026. In Russian.
Open questions the AI reported
- Sources do not name the suspect or the street where the homestead stands.
- Police are still checking his claim that he bought seeds on the dark web about a year earlier only for personal use.
- DONNEWS.RU and Pro Gorod both follow the Rostov Interior Ministry release without independent witnesses.
- The ministry video is referenced but no direct link to the full clip is given in the opened articles.
