Sakhalin man goes on trial over wild cannabis kept in a shed
The Tomarinsky district prosecutor approved an indictment against a local man accused of finding wild cannabis at Krasnogorsk in August 2026 and keeping it in an outbuilding on his partner's land until police seized it. The case under part 1 of article 228 has gone to the Uglegorsk city court's session in Tomari, where the offence carries up to three years in prison.
🇷🇺 Krasnogorsk, Tomarinsky district, Sakhalin Oblast · Russia
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A man from Tomarinsky district goes on trial over wild cannabis he found and
kept for himself.[1]The Tomarinsky district prosecutor approved the
indictment in the case against the local man.[2]He is accused under part 1 of
article 228 of the Russian Criminal Code, which covers obtaining and storing
drugs without intent to sell in a significant amount.[1]
Prosecutors say that in August 2026 the man found a wild drug-containing plant
in the village of Krasnogorsk, Tomarinsky district.[2]He carried it off and
kept it in a shed on the land of his partner, where it stayed until police
seized it.[2]The seized plant was taken by officers of the Tomarinsky police
department, ОМВД России «Томаринский».[3]
The case has been sent to the Uglegorsk city court for trial at its permanent
session in Tomari.[2]The offence carries up to three years in prison, and he
has not yet been sentenced.[1]An earlier release from the same prosecutor’s
office, on 30 October, described the man as finding the cannabis in a forest and
keeping it at his home address.[4]
No weight, plant count or area was published for the cannabis he kept, so no quantity can be recorded.
Only the month of the discovery is known; the text gives no exact date in August 2026.
An earlier prosecutor release, dated 30 October 2026, said he found the plant in a forest in Tomarinsky district and kept it at his home address; this report follows the 5 November release, which names Krasnogorsk and an outbuilding on his partner's land.
Neither the man's name nor his age was published, and no court date has been set.
The only photographs on the pages are a stock or illustrative image credited to a third-party photographer on Sakh.online and an illustration on ТИА «Острова», neither of which is established to show this case, so no media entry is included.
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