Ufa police seize 100 cannabis plants and 5 kg in a mother's house
Bashkortostan drug-control officers arrested a 28-year-old Ufa man who, they say, grew cannabis in his mother's house and supplied it to two couriers working for an online drug shop. Officers found about 100 plants and 5 kg of dried marijuana, and detained the two women, mothers of several children, on a delivery run.
Drug-control officers of Bashkortostan’s Interior Ministry identified three Ufa
residents who police say grew cannabis and sold drugs.[1]A 28-year-old Ufa
man set up a cannabis plantation in his mother’s house on the instructions of a
curator for an online drug shop, made the drug from the plants and handed
packages to two couriers.[1]In the room, detectives found about 100 cannabis
bushes, 5 kg of dried “dope grass” (durman-trava, a slang term for marijuana)
and equipment used for the operation.[1]Detained, the grower admitted he had
received instructions on caring for, harvesting and processing the plants from
accomplices.[1]
Police later detained two women who are mothers of several children and had
joined the same drug shop as couriers in 2024.[1]The two friends were
detained while delivering the drug to customers.[1]Searching the car the
couriers drove and their flats, police found and seized three types of drugs
weighing about 350 grams in total: hashish, mephedrone and cocaine.[1]The
hashish is part of that combined 350-gram figure, and officers published no
separate weight for it.[2]
A criminal case for illegal drug trafficking was opened, and all three suspects
were remanded in custody.[1]The investigation in Ufa was still under way when
Bashkortostan’s Interior Ministry announced the arrests on 1 July 2025.[3]
Photos and video
Police operational footage from the Ufa case, published with the Bashkortostan Interior Ministry statement about the cannabis plantation and the 5 kg of dried marijuana. Photo: Press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of BashkortostanPhoto details
The sources give no separate weight for the hashish seized from the couriers, only a combined 350 grams of hashish, mephedrone and cocaine, so no hashish kilogram figure is recorded.
The article gives no separate date for the search or the arrests; 1 July 2025 is the publication date and is used as the incident date.
The Interior Ministry does not name the suspects or say which charges each of the three faces beyond a general drug-trafficking case.
No court trial or sentence outcome was reported; the case was still under investigation, and an older undated page reporting the same case as new does not establish a later court step.
The photo published with the ministry statement is credited only as operational footage and its exact subject is not described, so it is linked rather than described in detail.
Bashinform and MK Ufa repeat the Interior Ministry statement, so only one original account underlies the reporting.
Police in Kaliningrad detained a 32-year-old man accused of growing cannabis at a plot in Kutaisky Lane and preparing it for sale. Officers seized 153.6 grams of the drug and eight cannabis bushes, and a criminal case for attempted large-scale drug sale was opened.
Police in Belokalitvinsky District, Rostov Oblast, detained a 72-year-old man suspected of using and storing cannabis and seized more than four kilograms from his home. He told them he grew the plants from wild cannabis seeds to smoke for his bronchial asthma, and a criminal case was opened under part 2 of article 228.
Police in Naberezhnye Chelny detained a 45-year-old man and found two indoor grow boxes, with examinations identifying 451.04 g of cannabis and 69.86 g of marijuana. A criminal case was opened under part 2 of article 228, carrying up to 10 years' imprisonment, while refusal of a medical test brought five days of administrative arrest.
Sevastopol drug police detained a 43-year-old man who they said stored and packed drugs and laid master stashes for an online shop, and seized a 1.3 kg pressed cannabis briquette from his rented garage. Officers also found single doses of marijuana and amphetamine at his rented house and about a kilogram of mephedrone in a woodland stash near Inkerman; a court ordered him held in custody.
