Gendarmerie teams detained A.P. in Karaçalılık Mahallesi, Akyazı, after determining that he was growing cannabis in his house garden.[1] A.P. was sent to the courthouse and released under judicial control.[1] In a separate raid on a house in the Akyazı town centre, officers detained Ç.C. for growing cannabis at home.[1] Ç.C. was sent to the courthouse after his detention and likewise released under judicial control.[1]

Officers seized 44 cannabis plants from A.P.’s garden, where pipes had been laid to water the plants.[1] A search of A.P.’s house also recovered 15 grams of cannabis.[1] The search of Ç.C.’s house recovered 110 cannabis plants grown in pots.[2] Together, the two seizures in Akyazı district totalled 154 cannabis plants.[2]

The first case was a joint effort by the provincial gendarmerie’s KOM narcotics teams and the Akyazı district gendarmerie, which found the garden plot cleared among bushes.[1] The second raid was carried out after officers received information that Ç.C. was cultivating cannabis at his residence in the district centre.[2]