Three held as over 5 kg cannabis seized in Sofia raids
Police in Sofia detained three men and seized more than 5 kg of marijuana in raids in the Mladost and Botunets districts. Two Mladost suspects were placed in custody for up to 72 hours while a pre-trial case was opened over the Botunets seizure.
🇧🇬 Mladost and Botunets districts, Sofia · Bulgaria
Police detained three men in raids on alleged drug dealers in Sofia’s Mladost and Botunets districts.[1][2][3][4]Sofia police director Nikolay Peltekov announced the operation at a briefing with prosecutor’s
office spokesman Nikolay Nikolaev.[4]Police seized more than 5 kg of marijuana in all.[1][2][5][3][4]
Mladost
On 3 November officers of the Sofia directorate’s Specialised Police Forces checked a 26-year-old man in
Mladost 2[1][6][3][4], who has a criminal record and a conviction for drug dealing and is serving a
suspended sentence.[1][4]At his address they found electronic scales and a jar of plant matter, about
60 grams of marijuana.[1][5][4]
A second raid, with the directorate’s narcotics section, detained a 33-year-old man who rented a home in
the district[1][4]using a fake identity document.[7]There officers found about €1,700, two
electronic scales and a vacuum machine[1][5][4], many bags of plant matter, a slab of resinous
substance, a zip bag of white lumpy substance, three mobile phones and the fake ID.[1][4]One account
gives 4.3 kg of marijuana and 150 grams of hashish oil there.[8]The two Mladost addresses together
held about 5 kg of marijuana and 0.5 grams of cocaine.[1][5][3][4]Investigators say the 33-year-old sold
large amounts of drugs in Sofia, has a conviction for possessing drugs for sale and is known for
offences under Articles 216, 195 and 354a.[1][5][4]
Botunets
In Botunets at about 10.30pm, patrol officers of the Fifth District Police Department stopped a man on
an electric scooter.[1][8][3][4]They found plastic bags of green plant matter on him and in a hollow in
the handlebar, which he said was marijuana[1][5][3][4], and 35 more bags and electronic scales at his
home.[1][5][4]He was known to police for drug offences but had not served a prison sentence.[7]
Charges
The two Mladost men were held for up to 24 hours and then for up to 72 hours after police reported to
the Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office.[1][5][3][4]They were charged with possession for distribution, the
second also with a document offence[6][7][9], which carries one to six years in prison and a fine of
5,000 to 20,000 leva; a court was to decide on permanent custody the next day.[7][9]The prosecutor’s
office said it had sent 37 people to court for drug dealing in the past month, in cases with drugs
worth over €1,113,000.[7][9]
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BTAbta.bgBGСтоличната полиция е задържала трима души за държане на наркотици с цел тяхното разпространение
Dnes.bgdnes.bgBGСДВР е задържала трима души за разпространение наркотици
NOVAnova.bgBGТрима задържани за наркоразпространение в София
Утро Русеutroruse.comBGСтоличната полиция е задържала трима души за държане на наркотици с цел тяхното разпространение
Open questions the AI reported
The article gives no separate date for the Botunets stop, describing it as about 10.30pm last night relative to its 4 November 2026 publication; 3 November 2026 is used as the incident date for the whole operation.
No net or laboratory weight was published; the cannabis total is reported only as more than 5 kg and about 5 kg, so 5 kg is recorded as the stated figure.
The 35 plastic bags seized in Botunets and the many bags found in the second Mladost home were not weighed, so they are not counted beyond the reported total.
A slab of resinous substance and a zip bag of white lumpy substance were not identified or weighed and are excluded from cannabis figures.
The reported 0.5 grams of cocaine is mentioned only to explain the mixed seizure and is excluded from cannabis figures.
The reported cash of about €1,700 is seized cash, not a valuation of the drugs, so no value is recorded.
No names were published for the three detained men and no charges or court outcome beyond 24-hour and 72-hour custody were reported.
Only one accessible source for this event was found after searching in English and Bulgarian.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in BurgasMedia: The Botunets man is being held for up to 24 hours under pre-trial proceedings opened under Article 354a, paragraph 1, with police due to report the case to the prosecutor's office.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in BurgasMedia: Sofia police director Nikolay Peltekov, a chief commissioner, announced the operation at a briefing at the directorate's headquarters, joined by prosecutor's office spokesman Nikolay Nikolaev.
NOVA reports a total of 130 grams from the first Mladost address while the submitted source reports about 60 grams there, so the exact amount for that address remains unresolved.
NOVA reports 4.3 kg of marijuana plus 150 grams of hashish oil in the second Mladost flat while the submitted source reports about 5 kg overall and an unweighed resinous slab, so the exact split remains unresolved.
The monthly aggregate of 37 persons sent to court and drugs worth over 1.1 million euro mentioned in the same briefings is a separate statistic left out of this event.
The court's decision on permanent custody for the two charged Mladost men was due the next day but its outcome is not reported in these sources.
No hearing or court outcome has been reported from the pre-trial proceedings opened over the Botunets seizure.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in BurgasMedia: Police detained three men in raids on alleged drug dealers in Sofia's Mladost and Botunets districts.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in BurgasMedia: On 3 November, officers from SDVR's Specialised Police Forces unit checked a 26-year-old man in Mladost 2.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in BurgasMedia: The 26-year-old has a criminal record and a conviction for drug dealing and is serving a suspended sentence.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in BurgasMedia: A second raid in Mladost was carried out by the same unit together with SDVR's Narcotics section, which detained a 33-year-old man who rents a home in the district.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Министерство на вътрешните работи: In Botunets at about 10.30pm, patrol officers from the Fifth District Police Department stopped a man on an electric scooter.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Dnes.bg: Police said they found the second dealer through the 26-year-old and that the 33-year-old told them he was spending his proceeds on renovating another Sofia flat.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Dnes.bg: Police said the 26-year-old is known for thefts, has served an effective sentence for drug possession and was now breaching a suspended sentence for drug offences.
The reprint does not name the Mladost and Botunets districts or give the reported 5 kg total, which are established by the fuller MVR, NOVA and BurgasMedia accounts already cited.
This Ukrainian-language account does not itself give the number of people sent to court or the drugs' euro value reported at the same briefings, so no figure for those is added.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in BurgasMedia: Police said the Botunets case material would still be reported to the prosecutor's office.
Traffic police detained a 31-year-old man from Blagoevgrad on the Struma motorway after a roadside test was positive for cannabis, amphetamine and methamphetamine. He was held for up to 24 hours and gave a blood sample; the car was not seized.
Police in Smolyan detained a 19-year-old driver on 10 November 2026 after a roadside drug test returned a positive result for cannabis. He was held for up to 24 hours while fast-track proceedings were opened.
Police in Burgas Province detained a 35-year-old man with about 4 g of cannabis in Ruen and a 49-year-old man with about 3 g of marijuana in Sozopol on 10 November 2026. Fast-track proceedings were opened in the Ruen case and both men were detained, with about 7 g seized in total.
Pazardzhik police stopped a Peugeot on the Trakia motorway and seized 2.2 kg of marijuana from four vacuum-sealed bags inside. The 25-year-old driver from Rogosh, who was driving under the influence of cocaine, was detained for 24 hours and faces pre-trial proceedings.
