Yerevan criminal-police drug officers and Davtashen community-police officers detained a 49-year-old Davtashen resident after finding cannabis at his yard and home on 16 October 2026.[1] Officers took the man to the Davtashen police department, where he said he had grown the cannabis and prepared the drug for personal use.[1] A public criminal prosecution was initiated against him, with house arrest imposed as the restraint measure.[1]

Police said they had received operational information that the man was growing cannabis in his yard and selling marijuana made from it.[1] Armenia’s police statement gives the same tip, saying the 49-year-old Davtashen resident grew cannabis in his yard and sold the resulting marijuana.[2] A subsequent inspection at his residence recovered 36 cannabis bushes, 9 kg of dry cannabis mass, 1 kg of cannabis seeds and five pipettes.[2]

The inspection was conducted within criminal proceedings handled by the investigative department for the Ajapnyak and Davtashen administrative districts.[3] The second outlet described the 9 kg as dried plant mass, presumably marijuana, and reported the same totals of plants and seeds.[3]