Wałbrzych and Wałbrzych County police detained four people for possessing drugs between Saturday evening, 7 November 2026, and the early hours of 9 November.[1] On 7 November before 6 p.m., officers from the Głuszyca police station saw an 18-year-old get out of a taxi on Kamienna Street in Jedlina-Zdrój and found two wraps on him, with white powder and dried plant material.[1] A forensic technician’s test confirmed the wraps contained amphetamine and marijuana.[1] The 18-year-old, a resident of Wałbrzych County, was detained, held in a police cell and charged with drug possession the next day.[1]
On the morning of Sunday 8 November, preventive officers patrolling Podgórze stopped a 37-year-old on one of the district’s main streets and found a plastic bag of dried plant material in his cigarette packet.[1] A field test confirmed the material was marijuana, and the Wałbrzych man was questioned and charged the same morning.[1] That evening after 8 p.m., district officers and preventive officers responded to a noise complaint at a flat on Piaskowa Street in Biały Kamień and detained a 46-year-old carrying methamphetamine.[1] The 46-year-old spent the night in a police cell and was questioned and charged the next morning under the law on counteracting drug addiction.[1] At about 1 a.m. on Monday 9 November, officers from the second police station went to a noise complaint on Batorego Street in Stary Zdrój and found dried plant material on a 37-year-old Wałbrzych man.[1] A field test showed the material was marijuana, and the 37-year-old was taken to a police cell and charged with drug possession on Monday morning.[1] Three of the four detentions involved marijuana, and the fourth, the 46-year-old’s case, involved methamphetamine.[1]
Police said drug offences under the law on counteracting drug addiction carry up to three years in prison.[1] The statement was issued by the press officer of the Wałbrzych city police commander, Superintendent Marcin Świeży.[1]
