Three held in Yerevan and Jjrvezh as police find 1.4 kg of marijuana
Armenian criminal police detained two men aged 52 and 53 on Tevosyan Street in Yerevan on 30 October 2024, then detained the 56-year-old Jjrvezh resident who allegedly sold them Subutex. A search of his home found 1.4 kg of marijuana and 2 g of hashish among heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, methadone and psychotropic tablets, and the investigation continued.
🇦🇲 Tevosyan Street, Yerevan, and Jjrvezh village, Kotayk Province · Armenia
Officers of the criminal police department against illegal drug trafficking,
working with the Abovyan investigative division, the Kotayk police division and
Yerevan patrols, acted on operational information.[1]On 30 October 2024
police detained two men aged 52 and 53 on Tevosyan Street in Yerevan on
suspicion of illegally acquiring, keeping and using drugs, and took them with
their GAZ-3110 car to the Kotayk police division.[2]
A search of the 52-year-old man found marijuana.[2]The 53-year-old admitted
under the weight of the facts that the Subutex found in the car he had bought
for 10,000 drams from an acquaintance in Jjrvezh village, whose identity the
police already knew.[2]Inside a criminal proceeding opened on the case,
police detained a 56-year-old Jjrvezh resident on suspicion of illegally selling
drugs.[2]He was brought to the division in the Mercedes he was driving.[1]
A search at the 56-year-old’s home the same day found 1.4 kg of marijuana, 15 g
of methamphetamine, 2.5 g of cocaine, 1 g of heroin, 2 g of hashish, 1.5 Subutex
tablets, 170 ml of methadone and 110 psychotropic tablets, according to the
Armenian Interior Ministry’s press service.[2]
The preliminary investigation was continuing.[2]Armenian law presumes a
suspect or accused innocent until guilt is proved under a court decision that
has entered into force.[2]
Photos and video
Picture at the top of the Interior Ministry press release as republished by Novosti-Armenia; no caption or credit establishes what it shows beyond the headline on the drug seizure.Photo details
The Interior Ministry press release puts the marijuana found at the Jjrvezh home at 1.4 kg, while Aravot, relaying the police, gives 1 kg 452 g; the report records 1.4 kg and keeps the police figure alongside it in the text.
No weight was published for the marijuana found on the 52-year-old in Yerevan, so the 1.4 kg covers only the Jjrvezh home search.
No street value was published for the cannabis, and no combined valuation of the mixed haul is used.
No charges, custody rulings or court outcome were reported; the preliminary investigation was still under way.
The suspects' names were not published, only their ages and the Jjrvezh residence.
The picture at the top of the Novosti-Armenia page carries no caption or credit tying it to this seizure, and the embedded video's content could not be established; both are listed only as links to the page they appear on.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Առավոտ: Reporting the police statement, Aravot gave the Jjrvezh marijuana weight as 1 kg 452 g alongside the same quantities of the other drugs.
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