Crime-investigation officers from the Inkerman police division and drug-control officers from the Balaklavsky district interior ministry department detained a previously convicted 37-year-old Inkerman resident suspected of attempting to sell a large batch of marijuana.[1]

Officers found two cannabis bushes connected to an irrigation system on the household plot belonging to the detained man.[1] In one of the sheds they found a growbox fitted with ventilation, electric heating, LED lamps and temperature sensors for growing and drying plants.[1] In the gazebo they found containers of prepared cannabis, electronic scales and packaging materials, plus a grinder and a homemade smoking device with brown residue.[1] Forensic specialists of the Sevastopol interior ministry expert centre established that the seized substance was marijuana weighing about three kilograms.[1] Gazeta Krym described the cannabis as stored in a basin, buckets and three-litre jars.[2] KP Sevastopol reported that police found about three kilograms of marijuana at the home of the 37-year-old Inkerman resident.[3]

The detained man told officers the cannabis bushes had grown on his plot by themselves and that he only collected, dried and stored the harvest for personal use.[1] He told Gazeta Krym that the crop had grown in a swamp without his care.[2] Police said the drugs were intended for onward sale to third parties.[1] STV described the Inkerman resident as having set up a makeshift operation for growing and processing cannabis on his household plot.[4]

Investigators opened a criminal case for attempted large-scale drug sale under the Russian Criminal Code, and the man was detained under article 91 of the criminal procedure code pending a custody ruling.[1] Gazeta Krym reported that he now faces 10 to 20 years in prison.[2] KP Sevastopol wrote that the man faces up to 20 years in prison.[3]