Gendarmerie member among three held over Zrenjanin cannabis lab; 7.5 kg seized
Police in Zrenjanin arrested three people, one of them a Gendarmerie member, over an illegal indoor cannabis-growing laboratory and said they seized 81 plants and about 7.5 kilograms of dried marijuana. The three were held for 48 hours and were to be brought to the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Zrenjanin with a criminal complaint.
🇷🇸 Zrenjanin · Serbia
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Arrested
3
Plants destroyed
81
Cannabis
7.5 kg
Sites
1
Agencies
Policijska uprava Zrenjanin, Više javno tužilaštvo u Zrenjaninu
Police in Zrenjanin, with the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in the city, arrested three people on
suspicion of unauthorised production and sale of narcotics.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]One of the
three, identified as Ž. G., is a Gendarmerie member aged 43; the other two are 64 and 63.[12][13][4][14][9][15]
Officers searched the flat and other premises the suspects use and found an illegal indoor
cannabis-growing laboratory.[1][2][5][8][14][15]They seized 81 plants resembling Indian hemp, about 7.5
kilograms of dried plant material suspected to be marijuana and scales[1][13][3][4][5][6][7][8][14][9][10][15][11],
and equipment used to grow the drug, the Police Administration for Zrenjanin said.[12][13][15]
By order of the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office the three were held for up to 48 hours and were to be
brought to the prosecutor with a criminal complaint.[1][16][13][3][6][7][8][14][9][10][11]Police said the
investigation would establish each suspect’s role in the operation.[12]
Photos and video
Indoor cannabis-growing equipment and plants from the Zrenjanin laboratory, in the handout photo published with the police statement. Photo: Police Administration Zrenjanin / MUPPhoto details
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Source: Volim ZrenjaninHandout photo captioned 'U Zrenjaninu otkrivena ilegalna laboratorija za uzgoj marihuane, uhapšene tri osobe', published with the NIN copy of the police statement. Photo: MUP SrbijePhoto details
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Arrested
3
Plants destroyed
81
Cannabis
7.5 kg
Sites
1
Agencies
Policijska uprava Zrenjanin; Više javno tužilaštvo u Zrenjaninu
Agency type
Police, Prosecutor
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (7.5 kg); Living plants (81 plants)
Activity
Cultivation, Possession
Setting
Home
Grown
Indoor
Charge
unauthorised production and sale of narcotics
Case stage
Under investigation
Force
No force reported
Region
Vojvodina
Date
Publication date
Sources
Volim Zrenjaninvolimzrenjanin.comSRŠOKANTNO OTKRIĆE U ZRENJANINU: Pripadnik Žandarmerije među uhapšenima zbog ilegalne laboratorije marihuane – zaplenjeno 7,5 kilograma droge!
RTRSrtrs.tvSRЗаплијењено 7,5 килограма марихуане, ухапшена три лица, међу њима и припадник Жандармерије
Снага Југаsnagajuga.rsSRУ Зрењанину откривена лабораторија за марихуану: Ухапшен припадник Жандармерије, заплењено 7,5 килограма дроге – Снага Југа
Blicblic.rsSRŽANDARM PAO ZBOG LABORATORIJE MARIHUANE! Policija upala u stan i zaplenila drogu, uhapšeno još dvoje ljudi
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No date is given for the search or the arrests; 7 November 2026 is the date of the police statement and of publication, and is used as the incident date.
The material was described as plants resembling Indian hemp and dried material suspected to be marijuana; no laboratory confirmation was reported.
The plant and drug figures are given once for the searches across the flat and other premises, so the 81 plants and 7.5 kilograms cannot be assigned to particular locations.
Only initials and birth years were released for the three suspects, and no plea or court outcome was reported.
The amount is stated as about 7.5 kilograms, not an exact measured weight, and no value estimate was published.
Telegraf, Blic and the submitted portal all reproduce the same Zrenjanin police statement, so they are not independent reporting; the Interior Ministry's own page could not be opened for this report.
The Republika page presents the story under the headline about the Gendarmerie member and lists a gallery that includes unrelated police stock photographs and links to other cases.
Objektiv credits the story to Tanjug and reproduces the same Police Administration Zrenjanin statement already cited in the report, so it is not independent reporting of the arrest.
The Naslovi.net page is a Newsmax Balkans text reproducing the same Zrenjanin police statement as the outlets already cited, so it is not an independent account and gives no date, plea or court outcome.
The Tanjug page gives no separate date or time for the search or arrests; 7 November 2026, the date of the police statement and of publication, stands in for the incident date.
The image on the Tanjug page is captioned only 'Foto: Tanjug video' and is not confirmed to show the seized plants or the laboratory, so it is not listed as media.
BL Portal credits the text to Blic ("prenosi Blic") and reproduces the same Police Administration Zrenjanin statement, so it is not independent reporting of the arrest.
BL Portal labels itself a Banja Luka outlet and published in Bosnian-language orthography, and its lead gives the suspects' birth years (1983, 1962, 1963) rather than their ages.
The NS Uzivo page gives no separate date for the search or arrests; 7 November 2026 is its publication date and the date of the reported police statement.
Insajder credits the text to Tanjug and reproduces the same Police Administration Zrenjanin statement as the outlets already cited, so it is not independent reporting of the arrest.
The article mentions a separate cannabis-growing laboratory discovered in Smederevska Palanka the previous day; that is a different event and is not covered here.
The page photo is captioned only 'Hapšenje, policija / Foto: Insajder' and is the same stock image used on other Insajder pages, so it is not confirmed to show this laboratory or seizure and is not listed as media.
Glas Srpske reproduces the same Police Administration Zrenjanin statement as the outlets already cited, so it is not independent reporting of the arrest.
Glas Srpske gives no separate date for the search or the arrests; 7 November 2026 is its publication date and the date of the police statement.
The Glas Srpske lead photo has no caption or credit identifying which premises or seizure it shows, so it is not listed as media.
Glas Srpske gives the suspects' ages as 43, 64 and 63 rather than birth years, as some other accounts did.
The page image is the same police handout used by other outlets, captioned only with the story headline, and no caption states which of the searched premises it depicts.
The NIN headline says 7,5 kg marihuane while the text gives the amount as about 7.5 kilograms of dried material suspected to be marijuana; the body text is used.
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