Saransk man, 43, sent to court over 200 g of marijuana and 10 cannabis bushes
Police in Saransk finished investigating a 43-year-old man after finding three parcels of marijuana in his garage in late August and 10 cannabis bushes nearby, 200 grams in total. The regional interior ministry said he had pulled up wild cannabis and kept it, and the case has been sent to court.
Police in Saransk, the capital of Mordovia, finished investigating a 43-year-old
local man accused of unlawfully storing drugs.[1]The regional interior
ministry said officers found three parcels of marijuana in the man’s garage in
late August.[1]Nearby they also found 10 cannabis bushes that belonged to
him.[1]
The man told police he had come across wild cannabis growing some time earlier,
pulled up part of it and kept it.[1]The total mass of what was seized was 200
grams.[1]
The article gives no exact date for the search; the plants and parcels were found in late August 2026, and 5 November 2026 is the publication date.
The charge under the Russian Criminal Code is described only as unlawful storage of drugs, without the article number or the part of article 228.
The 200 grams is a combined weight for the three parcels and the 10 bushes, and the article does not say how it splits between them.
The article does not say whether the 10 cannabis bushes were destroyed, nor where exactly nearby they were found.
No measure of restraint, court date or sentence was reported; only that the case had been sent to court.
The page carries no credit for its photograph of the three parcels, and no second account of this case could be opened to corroborate the police figures.
A 58-year-old man in Bobrovsky District, Voronezh Oblast, was charged with large-scale cultivation of narcotic plants after officers found 61 cannabis bushes in his yard. He had grown them from seeds bought in May 2026 to make marijuana for personal use, and his case has been sent to the district court.
The Barnaul transport prosecutor's office sent a 19-year-old Novosibirsk resident to trial accused of hiding more than 50 drug caches in Barnaul, including 2.9 grams of hashish bought with about 17 grams of cocaine. Transport police detained him beside the railway line on the Barnaul–Shtabka stretch while he was laying the stashes.
A 61-year-old man from Serafimovichsky district, Volgograd Oblast, has been sent to court accused of picking wild cannabis for personal use and storing about 300 grams of dried plant parts in a jar in an outbuilding. Charged with large-scale drug possession without intent to sell, he faces up to 10 years in prison.
The Tomarinsky district prosecutor approved an indictment against a local man accused of finding wild cannabis at Krasnogorsk in August 2026 and keeping it in an outbuilding on his partner's land until police seized it. The case under part 1 of article 228 has gone to the Uglegorsk city court's session in Tomari, where the offence carries up to three years in prison.
