Police in St Petersburg’s Primorsky district searched a rented flat on Arzeulovskaya alleya and found a growbox holding 22 cannabis plants.[1][2] In the flat were also 15 sacks of plant material with the smell of cannabis, weighing more than 67 kilograms in total.[1][2]

A 34-year-old local man was detained.[1][2] At his actual home on the reclaimed land of Vasilyevsky Island, officers seized electronic scales, packaging materials and eight packets of a substance weighing about 45 grams.[1][2] Tests confirmed that the sacks held marijuana and that one of the packets from his home held cocaine, which he said was for personal use.[1]

The police said he had bought cannabis seeds, fertiliser and growing equipment himself and made the drug for sale.[1] A criminal case was opened for attempted large-scale drug production and sale.[1][2] He was placed in a temporary detention centre under article 91 of the criminal procedure code.[1]