39-year-old held with 5-plant indoor cannabis farm in Uralsk
Police in Uralsk detained a 39-year-old online-shop owner suspected of selling and storing drugs, seizing five cannabis bushes from a phytolaboratory at his dacha plot. Officers also seized five wraps of plant material, suspected cannabis seeds and growing equipment during the Qarasora-2026 operation.
🇰🇿 Uralsk, West Kazakhstan Region · Kazakhstan
Arrested
1
Plants destroyed
5
Police in Uralsk detained a 39-year-old man suspected of storing and selling
drugs.[1]The detained Uralsk resident owned an online shop allegedly involved
in selling and storing drugs in the region.[2]Police opened a pre-trial
investigation, with further investigative steps under way to establish all the
circumstances.[1]
At a dacha plot, officers found a room equipped as a phytolaboratory for growing
cannabis and seized five cannabis bushes there.[1]The same equipped room held
a fan, lighting lamps, exhaust hoods, temperature sensors and fertilisers.[2]At his residence, officers seized five wraps of plant material and a large
quantity of seeds believed to be cannabis.[1]Officers also seized an iPhone
13 during the home search.[2]
Anti-drug officers of the West Kazakhstan police department carried out the
operation with Burkіt special police during the Qarasora-2026 preventive
campaign.[2]Police said the offence is punishable by five to eight years’
imprisonment with confiscation of property.[1]
The exact dates of the home and dacha searches were not given; 27 October 2026 is the earliest publication date and is used as the incident date.
No weight was published for the five wraps or the seeds, so no kilograms are recorded.
The reported five-to-eight-year penalty is the possible punishment, not an imposed sentence.
No charges, custody ruling or court outcome were reported; the pre-trial investigation was still under way.
The CaspianLife page labels its photo as illustrative, and the Caravan photo credit alone does not establish that it shows this seizure, so no media entry is included.
Both accounts repeat the police version; no statement from the detainee was reported.
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Court No. 2 in Kostanay sentenced 29-year-old Aleksandr Nerush to seven years in a medium-security facility for transporting and storing marijuana with intent to sell. He hid three packets of marijuana inside a punching bag bought in Almaty and carried it to Kostanay.
Almaty anti-drug officers detained a 43-year-old man in Nauryzbai district after finding 13 cannabis bushes and a box of dried material in his private house. Police said the seized narcotics totalled 10 kg; a criminal case was opened and the suspect was placed in temporary detention.
Police in Aktobe detained a 33-year-old man in a dacha settlement and found a bag of plant material on him, then seized more marijuana from a barn at his home. Experts put the total at more than 1.7 kilograms, and a medical examination found him intoxicated with drugs at the time.
