Three arrested as heroin, meth and marijuana seized in Yerevan
On 28 October 2026, police in Yerevan detained three residents on suspicion of acquiring and selling drugs after finding heroin, crystal methamphetamine and marijuana in three caches. A criminal case was opened and a preliminary investigation was continuing; the reports give no separate marijuana weight, so no cannabis quantity is recorded.
On 28 October 2026, police detained three residents of Yerevan on reasonable
suspicion of illegally acquiring and selling drugs.[1]Officers brought the
three detainees to the Nor Nork community-police department in Yerevan.[2]The
action followed operational information that especially large consignments of
drugs had been smuggled into Armenia and placed in caches for later sale.[1]
Officers from the criminal police department for combating drug trafficking
carried out the operation jointly with the Investigative Committee and the
Yerevan patrol service.[1]Officers discovered the drugs in three separate
caches on the territory of the capital.[2]The caches together yielded 503
grams of heroin and 3.3 kg of crystalline methamphetamine.[1]Marijuana was
also recovered in the same caches.[2]
Police said the smuggled drugs had been hidden in the caches for subsequent
distribution.[2]A criminal case was opened in the investigative department
for the Avan and Nor Nork administrative districts of Yerevan.[1]A
preliminary investigation into the case was continuing.[2]
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Seized drugs recovered from the three caches in Yerevan.Photo details
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Cannabis
Herbal cannabis
Activity
Smuggling, Trafficking
Setting
Vehicle
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Under investigation
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No separate weight for the marijuana was published, so no cannabis quantity is recorded; the 503 grams of heroin and 3.3 kg of methamphetamine are excluded from cannabis figures, as is the combined 3.8 kg total.
The reports give 28 October 2026 as the detention date, with no separate date for the discovery of the three caches, so the detention date is used as the incident date.
The names and ages of the three detainees were not published.
No charges, custody ruling or court outcome were reported; the preliminary investigation was still under way.
Both accounts relay the police version of the operation; no separate agency-statement page could be opened directly.
The page also embeds a video presented as part of this report, but its content cannot be established from a caption, so no video entry is included.
The text gives a weight ("3.3 kg") but the figures have no kg_seized; check whether it belongs there.
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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.
