Man, 49, held with 13.75 kg of marijuana and five plants near Vetren
Detectives at the Septemvri police directorate detained a 49-year-old man from Septemvri in the Bashaliysko dere locality near Vetren, Pazardzhik, carrying two sacks of dry marijuana police weighed at 13.75 kilograms. Officers found five irrigated cannabis plants nearby and two electronic scales in his home, and the Pazardzhik district prosecution service is supervising pre-trial proceedings.
🇧🇬 Bashaliysko dere locality near Vetren, Septemvri, Pazardzhik · Bulgaria
Officers from the criminal police group at the Septemvri police directorate
caught a 49-year-old man from Septemvri in the Bashaliysko dere locality near
the town of Vetren.[1]The man was carrying the drug in two polythene sacks as
dry leaf mass of heads and inflorescences.[1]Field drug tests identified the
material as dry marijuana with a total weight of 13.75 kilograms.[1]
In a neighbouring locality officers found five planted cannabis plants between
0.5 and 1.3 metres tall.[1]The growing site had been fitted with a drip
irrigation system.[1]Two electronic scales were found in the man’s home.[1]All the drug and equipment were seized and the man was held in custody at the
Septemvri police directorate for up to 24 hours.[1]
The operation was run as a drive against the production and distribution of
drugs.[1]The article presents the arrest as the failure of an attempt to use
the election day, when more than 600 Interior Ministry officers were deployed in
the region, as cover.[1]Pre-trial proceedings are being conducted under the
supervision of the Pazardzhik district prosecution service.[1]
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The article is dated 2 November 2026 and says the operation took place the previous afternoon, so 1 November 2026 is used as the incident date.
The report does not say what happened to the five plants, so the tracker counts them as destroyed, the usual police practice, rather than seized.
No charge, court outcome, estimated value or full identity of the man was published; the case was at the pre-trial stage under the Pazardzhik district prosecution service.
Only one accessible source for this event was found; searches in Bulgarian and English found no second outlet or agency statement.
The three photographs carry no captions or credits on the page; they are linked because the article's subject is the marijuana find, but it is not established exactly what each shows.
The article also reports a separate arrest in Peshtera of a 22-year-old with a bottle of methadone, which is not cannabis and is left out of this report.
Traffic police detained a 31-year-old man from Blagoevgrad on the Struma motorway after a roadside test was positive for cannabis, amphetamine and methamphetamine. He was held for up to 24 hours and gave a blood sample; the car was not seized.
Police in Smolyan detained a 19-year-old driver on 10 November 2026 after a roadside drug test returned a positive result for cannabis. He was held for up to 24 hours while fast-track proceedings were opened.
Police in Burgas Province detained a 35-year-old man with about 4 g of cannabis in Ruen and a 49-year-old man with about 3 g of marijuana in Sozopol on 10 November 2026. Fast-track proceedings were opened in the Ruen case and both men were detained, with about 7 g seized in total.
Pazardzhik police stopped a Peugeot on the Trakia motorway and seized 2.2 kg of marijuana from four vacuum-sealed bags inside. The 25-year-old driver from Rogosh, who was driving under the influence of cocaine, was detained for 24 hours and faces pre-trial proceedings.
