27-year-old held smoking marijuana in a Tiraspol internet club
Transnistrian militia officers detained a 27-year-old Tiraspol man in the early hours of 21 May 2022 after a visitor reported him smoking marijuana in an internet club toilet. He faces an administrative fine above 2,700 roubles or 15 days' administrative arrest if testing confirms drug use.
Militia officers detained a 27-year-old Tiraspol resident who was smoking
marijuana in one of the capital’s internet clubs.[1]The arrest came after a
visitor told the duty desk that the man was smoking a mixture in the toilet
without hiding from other people.[1]It happened shortly after one in the
morning on Saturday, 21 May 2022.[1]The Interior Ministry said the man used a
special device to smoke the banned smoking mixture in the club toilet.[2]
Officers who arrived seized a plastic bottle and sent it, with the suspect’s
biological fluid, for examination.[1]The ministry said the bottle was seized
together with the suspect’s biological fluid and sent for expert testing.[2]
If drug use is confirmed, the 27-year-old suspect faces administrative liability
carrying a fine above 2,700 roublesstrian roubles or 15 days of administrative
arrest.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
No weight, dose or laboratory result for the substance smoked was published, so no cannabis quantity can be recorded.
The reports do not name the internet club or the man, and give no street address beyond the city of Tiraspol.
Both sources say the penalty was possible only if testing confirmed drug use; no decision or penalty outcome was later reported.
The bottle and biological fluid were sent for examination, and no separate criminal or administrative case outcome was published.
Only the state news agency account and the Interior Ministry's own statement were found; both describe the same arrest.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in МВД ПМР: The ministry said the case would be opened under Article 6.13 of Transnistria's Administrative Offences Code.
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