Four detained in Yerevan with 335 g of suspected marijuana
Police in Yerevan detained four men on Nazarbekyan Street on 29 July over alleged Telegram-linked drug dealing. Searches of their car and a home found 335 grams plus 30 packets of suspected marijuana, and a criminal case was opened.
🇦🇲 Nazarbekyan Street, Yerevan · Armenia
Arrested
4
Cannabis
355 g
Agency
Police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Armenia
Police said they had received operative information that four men, two residents
of Yerevan and two residents of Kotayk Province, were illegally acquiring and
selling drugs.[1]Police detained all four on 29 July on Nazarbekyan Street in
Yerevan and took them, together with the car driven by a 33-year-old Yerevan
resident, to the Mashtots department of the Community Police.[1]
The men admitted that they had acquired the drugs through the Telegram app in
order to sell them.[1]A criminal case was opened, and a search of the Neta
car found a packet of a marijuana-like mass weighing 335 grams.[1]
On 1 August a search of the home of a 29-year-old Yerevan resident found 30
tape-wrapped packets with a combined mass of more than 20 grams of a
marijuana-like substance.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
4
Cannabis
355 g
Agency
Police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Armenia
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (355 g)
Setting
Vehicle, Home
Case stage
Under investigation
Operation
29 Jul 2026 – 1 Aug 2026
Region
Yerevan
Sources
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Both seized masses were described only as resembling marijuana, with no laboratory confirmation reported.
The house-search weight was given only as more than 20 grams, so 0.355 kg is the minimum total of the stated 335 grams plus 20 grams.
The names, full ages and procedural status of the four detained men beyond detention were not reported.
The specific criminal charge and any court outcome were not reported.
Only one accessible source for this event was found after searching in Russian and English.
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