Police detain 7 drug traffickers in one week
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The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs has announced that they have detained 7 drug dealers over the course of one week.
The ministry stated that four drug traffickers who sold drugs on a regular basis were detained in Marneuli and now face 7-14 years in prison.
Police seized heroin as evidence. One of the detainees had five packages of heroin in his accommodations ,” the ministry reported.
The fifth drug dealer is a citizen of Ukraine who was selling drugs via the internet.
He had eight packages of synthetic drugs with him when he was detained. The detainee had different hiding places in Tbilisi. We have seized four packages of synthetic drugs from four locations. He is facing 6-12 years in prison,” the ministry said.
The sixth individual, who is 37 years old, was detained at Kutaisi International Airport. He had 122,2 grams of cocaine, 51 pills of buprenorphine, subutex and tetrahydrocannabinol.
The detainee may be sent to prison for 8-20 years or for life.
The seventh case took place in the Lagodekhi region, in eastern Georgia, where a 20-year-old man was detained for the possession and sale of drugs in especially large quantities.
Police seized 275,77 grams of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) from him.
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