Wałbrzych police detained five people within one day on suspicion of possessing drugs, four of them with marijuana.[1] Criminal officers saw a 22-year-old man near the market square in Śródmieściu after 4 p.m. and found a wrap of plant material that a forensic field test confirmed was marijuana.[1]

At about 6 p.m. district officers detained a 39-year-old in a stairwell of a building on Traktorzystów Street in Szczawienko; he carried plastic wraps of plant material and crystals that tested as marijuana and methamphetamine.[1] The same officers then searched a flat in the same building and detained a 49-year-old woman, finding a blue box with larger amounts of plant material, crystals and white powder that tested as marijuana, methamphetamine and amphetamine.[1] After 10 p.m. officers stopped a car travelling through Lubomin in Wałbrzych County and found a metal box with two plastic bags of crystals that proved to be methamphetamine.[1] The 41-year-old driver was held in a police cell overnight and was taken to the District Prosecutor’s Office in Wałbrzych, where he was charged with possessing a significant quantity of drugs; that methamphetamine-only case is not counted as cannabis.[1] The next day at about 6 a.m. preventive officers detained a 27-year-old walking on Piłsudskiego Street in Nowe Miasto with a plastic wrap of white powder that tested as amphetamine, a case with no cannabis component.[1] At the same time intelligence-unit officers went to Klonowa Street in Szczawienko and found a 23-year-old man sitting in a car with plant material that tested as marijuana, and a search of his flat produced crystals that tested as methamphetamine.[1]

All five suspects were questioned and charged under Poland’s law on counteracting drug addiction.[1]

Police said four of them face up to three years in prison.[1] The man found with the larger amount of methamphetamine faces up to ten years in prison.[1]