39-year-old held after police find 2 g of cannabis in Sunny Beach flat
Police who searched a flat in the Sunny Beach resort found about 2 grams of cannabis and two hand-rolled cannabis cigarettes, along with about 3 grams each of methamphetamine and amphetamine. They detained the 39-year-old man who lived there for up to 24 hours and opened a fast-track criminal proceeding against him.
🇧🇬 Sunny Beach, Nesebar Municipality, Burgas Province, Bulgaria
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Police detained Valeri B., a 39-year-old man from Sliven known by the nickname
Valkata.[1][2][3] The search was at his flat in the Sunny Beach resort.[4] He had
previous convictions and was known to police in Sliven.[5][2] The detention order
was for up to 24 hours.[4] He was kept in the arrest facility of the Nesebar
district police department.[1][6] A fast-track criminal proceeding was opened
against him.[1][2][6][3]
Police found about 3 grams of methamphetamine and about 3 grams of amphetamine
in the flat.[1][2] They also seized about 2 grams of dried plant material
believed to be cannabis and two hand-rolled cigarettes containing it.[1][2][6][3] The
search began at about 08:00 in a flat a few metres from the beach and the Kakao
bus stop.[1][2] Officers from the Burgas criminal police and the Nesebar district
police carried out the operation.[7] A field test identified the white
crystalline substance as methamphetamine, known in Bulgaria as “piko”, and the
white powder as amphetamine.[1]
Police did not say whether the drugs were intended for sale or for personal use.[1][2][6] Investigators said they still had to establish where the substances came
from and how they were stored.[1][2]
Photos and video
Police photo from the Sveti Vlas and Sunny Beach operation, published with the report on the two searches. Photo: ODMVR Burgas. Source: PoligrafF
The reports give the time of the search as about 08:00 but no calendar date; 29 October 2026 is the date of the first police statement and reports.
The same police operation also searched a home in Sveti Vlas, where a 25-year-old woman was detained with about 27 grams of cannabis; that search is a separate event left out of this report.
No charge, court date or outcome of the fast-track proceeding was reported.
No weight was given for the two hand-rolled cannabis cigarettes.
The reports say the man had previous convictions but do not say for what.
The submitted article's image is an illustrative Wikimedia Commons photo of a police car in Sunny Beach, not of the search.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in BurgasMedia: The search was at his flat in the Sunny Beach resort.
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