24-year-old held in Yerevan with 18 g of marijuana after a Telegram-arranged drop
Police from Yerevan's Arabkir district station detained a 24-year-old resident of Berd on Nairi Zaryan Street and found seven packets of suspected marijuana and a pipette, 18 grams in all, on him. Officers said he bought the drug for sale from a Telegram channel user and had left one packet by garages on Azatutyan Avenue; the investigation was continuing.
Police from Yerevan’s Arabkir district station detained a 24-year-old resident
of the town of Berd on Nairi Zaryan Street and took him to the station, a police
press service statement said.[1]Operational information indicated the man had
left a packet of drugs near garages on Azatutyan Avenue, the avenue’s name also
spelled Azatutyun in the same report.[1]
A search of the young man turned up seven packets of a substance resembling
marijuana and a pipette holding the same substance.[1]The total weight of
what was found was 18 grams, or 0.018 kilograms.[1]The man had bought the
drug for sale from a user of one of the Telegram messaging app’s channels.[1]
In a search carried out under the criminal case, officers found the packet the
young man had left by a garage in the yard of a building on Azatutyan Avenue.[1]The investigation was continuing.[1]
Photos and video
Page picture illustrating the detention of the 24-year-old Berd resident in Yerevan. Photo: News ArmeniaPhoto details
No separate date is given for the detention; 17 July 2025 is the article's publication date and is used as the incident date.
Only one account, quoting the police press service, could be opened; no Armenian-language police release or second outlet report of this arrest was found.
Police describe the substance as resembling marijuana; the article does not say whether any laboratory confirmation was reported.
The report gives no street value, no charge, and no court decision, and only the investigating stage is reported.
The Berd resident's name, and whether he was formally remanded or released pending investigation, were not published.
The page picture is captioned only with the headline, so whether it shows this arrest or the recovered packets cannot be established, and the embedded video could not be opened.
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Yerevan community police detained two residents aged 19 and 20 who allegedly bought 20 marijuana packets for 250 dollars over Telegram to place in dead-drop caches. Officers recovered part of the packets in a search and part where one suspect threw them while fleeing, and both were remanded in custody after a criminal case was opened.
Police in Aragatsotn detained three Agarak residents after finding marijuana and pipettes at a 51-year-old man's home, saying he had sold drugs to the other two. Follow-up searches recovered 882.25 grams of marijuana and cannabis plants, and the suspected seller was remanded in custody.
Police in Yerevan detained a 36-year-old Erebuni resident on 2 November 2026 as he placed a marijuana packet in a dead-drop cache on Moldovakan Street. Officers found three packets already hidden and 18 more weighing about 42 grams in his Nissan Teana, and he was arrested after court-ordered searches also recovered heroin and hallucinogenic mushrooms.
