Three held in Yerevan; 1.85 kg marijuana and 256 g hashish seized
Police in Yerevan detained three people on Mazmanyan Street and searched the 40-year-old driver's house, finding 1.85 kg of marijuana and 256 g of hashish among other drugs. All three were placed in a detention isolator while a preliminary investigation continues.
Police officers joined investigators from the Erebuni and Nubarashen districts
and Yerevan patrol officers to act on verified information about illicit drug
trafficking.[1]According to the police press service, on 7 July at 15:20 on
Mazmanyan Street in Yerevan they detained two residents of Dzorakhpyur and a
woman from Yerevan.[1]The three were taken to the Erebuni police division
together with the Ford car driven by the 40-year-old man.[1]
A personal search of the driver found a pipette with ash-like traces and a
folding knife.[1]Under an opened criminal case and by court order, officers
then searched the 40-year-old man’s house.[1]The house search found 1 kg850
g of marijuana and 256 g of hashish, alongside opium, methamphetamine, methadone
tablets and two automatic-rifle cartridges.[1]Police put the market value of
all the drugs taken out of circulation at about 216 million drams.[1]
All three detainees were placed in a detention isolator and forensic
examinations were ordered.[1]The circumstances are being established in a
preliminary investigation.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
3
Cannabis
2.106 kg
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (1.85 kg); Hashish (256 g)
Activity
Trafficking
Setting
Home, Vehicle
Case stage
Under investigation
Region
Yerevan
Sources
Новости-Арменияnewsarmenia.amRUВ Армении из незаконного оборота изъято более 6 кг наркотиков на сумму в 216 млн. драмов
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The article prints the larger weights as 3 742 kg of opium and 1 850 kg of marijuana; they are read as 3 kg 742 g and 1 kg 850 g because the same article says the total seizure was just over 6 kg.
The 216 million dram market value covers all the seized drugs together, not the cannabis alone, so no value figure is recorded.
The location of the searched house is not given beyond it being the 40-year-old man's home.
No names, charges or court outcome were reported; the case stood at the preliminary investigation stage.
The whole account rests on one opened report of the police statement; a second outlet's copy of the same statement could not be opened.
Police in Echmiadzin detained two local men, aged 54 and 63, on 6 November 2026 after a tip that they stored drugs and planned a sale that day. Officers found 92 grams of a mass resembling marijuana in their Lexus, and a criminal proceeding was opened.
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.
