30-year-old held in Yakutsk with 4.5 kg of hashish in 35 pressed bars
Drug-control police detained a 30-year-old Yakutsk man in the Ptitsefabrika microdistrict while he was laying hidden drug stashes, finding five packets in his backpack and 35 pressed bars of hashish in the stashes and his freezer. A court remanded him in custody on a charge of attempted large-scale drug sale.
🇷🇺 Ptitsefabrika microdistrict, Yakutsk, Sakha (Yakutia) · Russia
Drug-control officers of the Yakutsk city interior directorate stopped a
30-year-old local man suspected of illegally distributing banned substances.[1]Police detained him in the Ptitsefabrika microdistrict on the edge of
Yakutsk while he was setting up hidden stash caches in a forest area.[1]Yakutia-Daily, citing the same police operation, said officers detained the
30-year-old while he was setting up hidden stashes in the forest of the
Ptitsefabrika microdistrict on the edge of Yakutsk.[2]
A personal search of his backpack found five wraps containing an unidentified
dark plant substance.[1]Officers later recovered 35 pressed bricks with
similar contents from caches he had set up and from a freezer during a search of
his flat.[1]An examination identified the seized material as the narcotichashish weighing more than 4.5 kilograms.[1]Yakutia-Daily reported the
combined haul as 35 bricks whose contents proved to be hashish weighing more
than 4.5 kilograms, including what officers found in the flat’s freezer.[2]
Operatives said the detained man acted as a so-called storehouse, receiving
criminal goods on the instructions of an unknown curator for later contactless
sale.[1]A criminal case was opened against the suspect for an attempted
large-scale drug sale under part 3 of article 30 and point A of part 4 of
article 228.1 of the Russian Criminal Code.[1]
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Source: MVD Media (Russian Interior Ministry)Police photo of an officer's hand uncovering dark hashish bars inside a black plastic bag. Photo: Press service of the Interior Ministry for the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)Photo details
The ministry says only that the hashish weighed more than 4.5 kilograms; the exact weight was not published.
3 July 2025 is the ministry page publication date and is used as the incident date; the detention may have occurred a day or more earlier.
Neither source gives a separate date for the flat search and the inspection of the stashes.
The five packets from the backpack and the 35 bricks were not weighed separately, so 4.5 kilograms is the single combined figure.
The detained man was not named; only his age and local residence were given.
The two remaining photos on the ministry page could not be confirmed to show distinct scenes, so only two entries are listed.
No later step in the case, such as a trial or sentence, was reported in the accounts opened for this report.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Yakutia-Daily.ru: At the investigator's request the suspect was remanded in custody, as reported by the Interior Ministry press service.
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