Two Tiraspol friends held with hashish face up to 3 years
Operatives in Tiraspol detained two friends, aged 21 and 20, in the daytime on 15 July 2026 and seized hashish from each of them. Both reportedly use drugs and face a fine of up to 21,000 rubles or up to three years in prison for storage.
Operatives in Tiraspol detained two friends from the city during the daytime on
15 July 2026 and seizedhashish from them.[1]One of the detained men was a
21-year-old who told operatives he had found a packet containing drugs at that
moment, by chance.[1]The Interior Ministry’s press centre account says the
21-year-old claimed he had “purely by chance” found a ziplock bag with the drug.[2]
Officers later also found a small packet containing a prohibited substance on
his 20-year-old friend.[1]The 20-year-old said he had found a ziplock bag two
days earlier and had not told his friend so as not to share it.[1]According
to Transnistria’s Interior Ministry press centre, both detained young men use
drugs.[1]
The Internal Affairs Ministry reported that the drugs had to be handed over to
the militia.[2]For storing the prohibited substance the two face a fine of up
to 21,000 rubles or up to three years in prison.[2]The Novosti Pridnestrovya
article reports the same threatened penalty, a fine of up to 21,000 rubles or up
to three years in prison.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
No weight or other quantity was published for either packet of hashish, so no cannabis weight can be recorded.
Neither man was named; the sources give only their ages of 21 and 20 and that they are from Tiraspol.
No court outcome was reported; only the penalty the men could face was stated.
The article gives no street or district of Tiraspol where the detention happened.
The Interior Ministry's site carried the same text as its Telegram post but returned a server error and had no Wayback copy when checked, so that page could not be opened directly.
Criminal-investigation officers in Tiraspol detained a 20-year-old man suspected of unlawfully storing drugs after finding a ziplock packet with a brown mass resembling hashish in his jeans pocket. The substance was sent for chemical-biological examination during a pre-investigation check, with up to three years' imprisonment cited as possible criminal liability.
Police in central Bender detained a 19-year-old local resident carrying about 10 grams of plant material thought to be hashish, and found three more packets of about 10 grams each at his home. The seized material was sent for biological examination, and if confirmed as a drug he could face a fine of up to 21,000 Transnistrian roubles or up to three years in prison.
Police detained a 19-year-old Bender resident in Kitskany forest after finding hashish on him, which officers seized. He faces a fine of up to 6,300 Transnistrian roubles or up to 30 days of administrative arrest, with an administrative case under consideration.
Criminal-investigation officers of Transnistria's capital militia detained a 42-year-old Sukleya resident who carried a fold of suspected marijuana in his shorts pocket and was under the influence of drugs. He first said he found it on a walk, then that he picked the plant in a nearby field, and an examination will decide whether he faces up to three years in prison or an administrative penalty.