Police received operational information that a 36-year-old resident of Yerevan’s Erebuni administrative district was illegally acquiring drugs and selling them by hiding them in dead-drop caches.[1] On 2 November 2026 the man was detained on Moldovakan Street in Yerevan as he placed and photographed a packet.[1] He was taken, together with his Nissan Teana, to the Nor Nork community-police department.[1] Armenia’s Interior Ministry said its department for combating illicit drug trafficking had received the tip about the Erebuni resident and reported the same detention on Moldovakan Street.[2]

Officers found three packets that had already been placed at the scene and 18 more packets in the car, weighing about 42 grams in total.[1] The man said he had bought the packets of marijuana through the Telegram app in order to sell them on.[1] A criminal proceeding had been opened in the investigative department for the Avan and Nor Nork administrative districts of Yerevan.[1]

On a court decision, officers searched the man’s home and his car.[1] At home they found nine polyethylene bags holding more than 39 grams of heroin, one bag with 13 grams of hallucinogenic mushrooms and electronic scales, and in the car more than three grams of a yellow-green mass, a pipette and four tablets.[1] The 36-year-old man was arrested and a preliminary investigation was continuing.[1]