Half gram of cannabis seized in Veliko Tarnovo lorry and Vodoley checks
Police in Bulgaria's Veliko Tarnovo region seized about 0.5 grams of cannabis from a 54-year-old lorry passenger on 3 November 2026 and detained him for up to 24 hours. The same day officers in Vodoley village found a 27-year-old woman with marijuana and cocaine, opening a case file with no weight or detention reported.
🇧🇬 Veliko Tarnovo and Vodoley village, Veliko Tarnovo Province · Bulgaria
Veliko Tarnovo road and district police officers seizednarcotic substances in
checks announced by the regional police directorate.[1]During a lorry check
on 3 November 2026, officers found on a 54-year-old passenger from Strazhitsa a
small bag of leafy matter that tested positive for cannabis in a field test.[1][2]Officers detained the man for up to 24 hours and opened pre-trial
proceedings in his case.[1]
The cannabis weighed about 0.5 grams.[1][3]Officers also found two more small
bags under the lorry’s front seat containing white and yellow powder that tested
positive for amphetamine in a field test.[1]The powder weighed about four
grams in total.[1]
At midday the same day officers checked a 27-year-old woman from the village of
Vodoley.[1][2]Officers found and seized two bags of leafy matter that tested
positive for marijuana in a field test, along with white powder that tested
positive for cocaine.[1][3]Officers opened a case file over the Vodoley find.[1][2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Cannabis
500 mg
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (500 mg)
Setting
Vehicle
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
Утро Русеutroruse.comBGВеликотърновски полицаи иззеха наркотични вещества от мъж и жена, водач на автомобил е задържан след положителна проба за канабис и кокаин
Делник БГdelnik.bgBGВеликотърновски полицаи иззеха наркотични вещества от мъж и жена, водач на автомобил е задържан след положителна проба за канабис и кокаин
Фокусfocus-news.netBGАмфетамин откриха под седалката на товарен автомобил полицаи от Стражица
Open questions the AI reported
No weight was published for the marijuana found on the woman in Vodoley, so only the 0.5 grams from the lorry check is recorded as cannabis.
The amphetamine found in the lorry and the cocaine found in Vodoley are mentioned only to explain the mixed seizures and are excluded from cannabis figures.
No charges or court outcome were reported for either possession case.
The bulletin dates the checks to yesterday relative to its 4 November 2026 publication, so 3 November 2026 is used as the incident date.
Only the Utro Ruse reprint could be opened in this review; its BTA original was not reopened separately.
The same bulletin also reports a 30-year-old Ukrainian driver held for drug-driving, which is already recorded in veliko-tarnovo-ukrainian-drug-driver-held and is left out here.
Bulgarian customs, Interior Ministry officers and prosecutors stopped a freight truck on the entry lane at the Kulata border checkpoint and found nearly 500 kg of marijuana. The weight was reported only from unofficial information, with official details on the case still awaited.
Agents of Bulgaria's anti-organised-crime directorate seized about 12 kg of marijuana from a farm building on a property in Smirnentsi, near Harmanli, and detained the 46-year-old man who managed it. Prosecutors in Haskovo opened a pre-trial investigation.
Agents of Bulgaria's anti-organised-crime directorate detained two men in a search of a property in Chelnik, Yambol region, and found about 3 kg of marijuana packed in bags and hidden in a beehive in the yard. Prosecutors in Yambol opened a pre-trial investigation, and the raid was one of two operations in Yambol and Haskovo that ended with three detentions and about 15 kg of marijuana seized.
Police found 103 kg of marijuana, in the form of 159 cannabis plants left to dry, at a private property in Grashevo, a village in Velingrad municipality, during a special operation across Pazardzhik region. No arrest at the property was reported, and the directorate named no suspect or owner.
