Simferopol police detain a man with five kilograms of marijuana at home
Simferopol drug-control officers detained a 20-year-old man during operation Mak and found about five kilograms of cannabis in two bags and a box at his flat; he said he picked wild plants near a construction site in Simferopol district for personal use, and police opened a large-scale possession case and released him on a travel restriction.
Simferopol drug-control officers detained a 20-year-old local man suspected
of illegal drug possession during operation Mak, the Crimea Interior Ministry
said on 11 September 2026.[1]A search of his flat found two bags and a
cardboard box containing cannabis weighing about five kilograms in total.[1]
The man admitted guilt and told police he had worked as a labourer on a
building site near a village in Simferopol district, noticed wild cannabis
there, returned at night to cut it and planned to dry it for personal use.[1]Officers opened a criminal case for large-scale drug possession and ordered
him not to leave his place of residence pending investigation.[2]
Crimea-news published the same ministry account on the day of the announcement.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
RIA's article also mentions unrelated Mak operations in Razdolnoye and Sevastopol; those cases are excluded from this report.
Neither source names the detained man, the village near the construction site or the exact night he said he harvested the plants.
RIA describes the seized material as about five kilograms of marijuana; the bags and box are described as holding cannabis without a separate laboratory figure.
Crimea-news republishes the RIA Crimea text without adding independent confirmation.
No court date or charge section number is reported beyond large-scale possession wording.
Police in Kaliningrad detained a 32-year-old man accused of growing cannabis at a plot in Kutaisky Lane and preparing it for sale. Officers seized 153.6 grams of the drug and eight cannabis bushes, and a criminal case for attempted large-scale drug sale was opened.
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.
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.
