Two youths held with 4 kg marijuana on Yerevan-Ashtarak road
Police detained an 18-year-old Yerevan resident and a 20-year-old Vayots Dzor resident on the Yerevan-Ashtarak road on 18 May 2026. Officers found about 4 kg of suspected marijuana on the 20-year-old and transferred both cases to investigators.
On 18 May 2026, officers of the Criminal Police Main Department’s
anti-drug-trafficking unit and Kotayk-region patrol officers detained two young
men on the Yerevan-Ashtarak road during joint operative-search measures.[1]Police announced on 19 May that the pair had been detained the previous day on
reasonable suspicion of acquiring, possessing and selling drugs.[2]According
to the agency, one detainee was an 18-year-old resident of Yerevan and the other
was a 20-year-old resident of Vayots Dzor Province.[2]Officers took both
young men to the Mashtots department of the community police.[2]
A personal search of the 20-year-old young man found about 4 kg of a substance
resembling marijuana.[2]Police described the seized material as 4 kilograms
of marijuana-type drug-like mass discovered during that personal search.[1]
The young men and the compiled documents were presented to the
preliminary-investigation body.[1]A preliminary investigation was under way.[2]The joint operation combined central criminal-police drug investigators
with Kotayk regional patrol officers.[1]
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Still image of the detention on the Yerevan-Ashtarak road reported with about 4 kg of suspected marijuana.Photo details
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