95 kg marijuana seized in Tuzi; 20-year-old arrested
Montenegrin border police seized about 95 kg of marijuana from a car boot in the Traboin area of Tuzi and detained the 20-year-old driver. Prosecutors ordered his detention on drug-trafficking suspicion while police sought the person who moved the drugs from Albania.
Employees of the Border Police Sector at Border Police Station Podgorica checked
a vehicle and the person driving it in the Nabom Traboin area of Tuzi after
several days of activities conducted under their jurisdiction in that area.[1]The driver was 20-year-old MU from Tuzi.[1]The prosecutor at the High State
Prosecutor’s Office in Podgorica was notified of the incident.[1]By order of
that prosecutor, MU was deprived of his liberty on suspicion of having committed
the criminal offense of production, possession and placing unauthorized narcotic
drugs on the market.[1]
In the trunk of the checked vehicle, police found four large PVC packages
containing marijuana.[1]Those four packages together had a total weight of
about 95 kilograms.[1]The drugs had been transferred from the territory of
Albania into the territory of Montenegro and had then been taken over by the
suspect MU.[1]Measures and actions were being taken to identify and prosecute
the person suspected of having carried out that cross-border transfer from
Albania.[1]
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Packages seized in the Tuzi operation.Photo details
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