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.
Yerevan police detained two young men who planned to distribute drugs through
dead-drop caches.[1]A tip that two youths were placing drugs on the road
section from Fanarjyan Street toward Lepsius Street reached the Kanaker-Zeytun
community police department.[1]Community officers went immediately to the
stated location.[2]When the officers appeared, the youths tried to flee, and
one of them threw packets from his pocket while running.[2]Both were detained
on suspicion of drug sale and taken to the station, where they were identified
as 19- and 20-year-old Yerevan residents.[1]
Through a Telegram channel, they had bought 20 packets of marijuana for 250
dollars to place in the caches.[1]Part of the packets was found during the
personal search of the 20-year-old, and the rest on the Fanarjyan Street section
where the 19-year-old had thrown them while fleeing.[1]The placement attempt
did not succeed.[2]
A criminal case was opened over the incident.[1]Both young men were remanded
in custody.[2]
The articles give no separate date for the detention, so 4 November 2026, the publication date, is used as the incident date.
No weight for the 20 packets was published, so no cannabis quantity in kilograms can be recorded.
The suspects were identified only by ages and Yerevan residence; no names were published.
No court outcome beyond remand in custody was reported; the investigation was still under way.
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No separate police or investigative-committee statement for this incident could be opened; only Verelq's Russian and Armenian versions of the same account were found.
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.
The National Security Service stopped two Armenian citizens and an Iranian citizen with 69.3 kg of marijuana near Meghri, after they picked up the load from a cache near Nrnadzor. The case was opened under the aggravated sale and smuggling articles, and a court ordered the two Armenians held.
Armenia's Investigative Committee finished its probe on 21 August 2026 into H.M. and A.K., who allegedly collected 5 kg of marijuana from a Telegram-arranged dead drop and were arrested immediately. One suspect was detained and one placed under house arrest; the case went to prosecutors with an indictment.
In 2024 prosecutors stopped opening criminal cases for small amounts of plant-based drugs, cannabis included, when there was no evidence of sale, and sent the files for an administrative fine instead. Drug crimes fell from 5,070 in 2023 to 3,639 in 2024, while administrative drug offences rose from 387 to 633.