Two couriers held in Vitebsk region over 3 kg hashish
Vitebsk drug police detained a 34-year-old Gomel-region courier with three kilograms of hashish in his car and later held a 35-year-old Minsk-region accomplice with drugs in his caches. Investigators opened a drug-trafficking case; both men face up to 15 years in prison.
Vitebsk drug-control officers with OMON riot-police support detained a
34-year-old resident of Gomel region.[1]The man worked as a courier for an
online shop selling drugs.[1]In follow-up operations officers detained a
second alleged participant, a 35-year-old resident of Minsk region, and seized a
banned substance from caches he had prepared.[1]Police said both men had
found offers of illegal earnings on the Internet and had worked as drug couriers
for less than a month.[1]
On his curator’s instructions, the first courier was to bring a banned substance
from a neighbouring country and place it in a cache in the capital region.[1]During the detention officers found and seized three kilograms of hashish in his
car.[1]The Interior Ministry described the three kilograms as a dangerous
narcotic drug, hashish.[2]A 35-year-old Minsk-region participant was also
detained with banned substance found in his caches.[2]
Investigators opened a criminal case for illegal trafficking in narcotic drugs.[1]The two detainees face up to 15 years’ imprisonment.[2]
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Photo published with the report on the 3 kg hashish seizure in the car.Photo details
Three men aged 22 to 27 were detained in a Minsk suburb after officers found 50 g of marijuana and six cannabis pots in a rented house. One of them had built an app for remote climate control of the grow, and a criminal case was opened against all three.
Minsk police detained a 43-year-old resident after seizing more than 400 grams of marijuana from his city apartment and his dacha plot in Minsk District. He said he made it from wild cannabis for personal use; a criminal case was opened carrying up to five years in prison.
Minsk drug-control officers detained a 27-year-old resident who ran his own online drug shop after starting as a stash-maker, seizing more than 320 g of hashish from his flat and caches. Investigators opened a trafficking case and liquidated the shop; he faces up to 15 years in prison.
Police in Bobruisk detained a 32-year-old courier for an online drug shop and seized more than 600 g of hashish and marijuana, plus 2,000 LSD stamps, from him, his home and caches in four cities, the Interior Ministry said. Investigators opened a drug-trafficking case and he faces up to 15 years in prison.
