43-year-old held in Sevastopol after 1.3 kg of cannabis found in his garage
Sevastopol drug police detained a 43-year-old man who they said stored and packed drugs and laid master stashes for an online shop, and seized a 1.3 kg pressed cannabis briquette from his rented garage. Officers also found single doses of marijuana and amphetamine at his rented house and about a kilogram of mephedrone in a woodland stash near Inkerman; a court ordered him held in custody.
🇷🇺 Sevastopol, Gagarinsky district and a woodland stash in Inkerman · Russia
Drug-control officers of the Sevastopol interior ministry directorate, backed by
Rusguard fighters, detained a 43-year-old local resident whom police described
as a wholesale drug courier for an online shop.[1]Police said he found the
work in a messenger app and that his job was to take wholesale batches, store
and pack them, and lay master stashes across Sevastopol and Crimea, which are
then split into single doses for retail sale.[2]He was detained at the rented
house he was living in.[1]
A search of the house found electronic scales, packaging materials and single
doses of marijuana and amphetamine.[1]In a rented garage officers seized a
pressed briquette of cannabis weighing more than 1.3 kilograms.[1]In woodland
near Inkerman they took a one-kilogram package of mephedrone from a stash the
man had not yet collected.[1]
The 43-year-old had worked as a shoemaker before taking the job.[1]Investigators of the Gagarinsky district police division opened a criminal case
for attempted sale of drugs on a very large scale, under part 3 of article 30
and part 5 of article 228.1 of the Criminal Code.[2]A court ordered him held
in custody and the investigation continues.[1]MK v Krymu reported that the
charge carries 10 to 20 years in prison.[2]The Crimean news feed that
published the police video put the haul as more than two kilograms of marijuana
and mephedrone combined.[3]
Photos and video
Police handout photo published with the statement on the seizure of a cannabis briquette and mephedrone from a 43-year-old Sevastopol man. Photo: press service of the Sevastopol interior ministry directoratePhoto details
The sources give no separate date for the detention and searches; 9 November 2026 is the publication date of the police statement and the video and is used as the incident date.
The combined headline figure of more than two kilograms covers marijuana and mephedrone together, so only the separately stated 1.3 kilograms of cannabis is counted and the weight of the single marijuana doses found in the house is not reported.
MK v Krymu calls the material in the briquette cannabis and describes the doses found at home as marijuana, but the capture does not support whether pressed cannabis is hashish, so it is recorded as flower.
No estimated value for the cannabis was published.
The suspect's name was not published.
The accounts reproduce the regional interior ministry statement, and the photo listed is a police handout published with it.
The submitted VK capture preserved only part of the video description, so the fuller weight and stash details come from the interior ministry statement it cites.
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Police in Belokalitvinsky District, Rostov Oblast, detained a 72-year-old man suspected of using and storing cannabis and seized more than four kilograms from his home. He told them he grew the plants from wild cannabis seeds to smoke for his bronchial asthma, and a criminal case was opened under part 2 of article 228.
Police in Naberezhnye Chelny detained a 45-year-old man and found two indoor grow boxes, with examinations identifying 451.04 g of cannabis and 69.86 g of marijuana. A criminal case was opened under part 2 of article 228, carrying up to 10 years' imprisonment, while refusal of a medical test brought five days of administrative arrest.
Drug police in Kazan detained a 34-year-old man on Gubkina Street and found a plastic case holding 17 foil wraps of hashish with a total mass of more than 13 grams. A criminal case was opened under the drug-trafficking article 228.1, and he was held in custody for the preliminary investigation after police said he fully admitted his guilt.
