MIA arrests US citizen trying to import large quantity of drugs to Georgia
Investigators said the detainee was found 229 in possession of packages of heroin alongside other narcotic substances. Photo: MIA
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A US citizen born in 1976 was arrested today at Tbilisi International Airport for attempting to bring in large quantities of drugs into the country.
The detainee is facing eight to 20 years of imprisonment.
Investigators said the detainee was found 229 in possession of packages of heroin, 101 pills of narcotic substances and eight jars of different kind of drugs. Forensic studies will reveal the exact substance of the drugs.
The MIA has arrested 116 people for drug trafficking and seized 35 kilograms of heroin, more than six kilograms of cocaine and up to 12 thousand pills of subutex, as well as up to three kilograms of MDMA this year alone.
Georgian Interior Minister Giorgi Gakharia believes that prevention and rehabilitation are among the most important steps for improving the drug-related situation in the country.
The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs has announced that they have detained 7 drug dealers over the course of one week.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia says that 98 individuals have been charged for drug crimes over the past seven months.
A drug and pharmaceutical quality control agency will be launched in Georgia in 2019, announces Minister of Health Davit Sergeenko.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs has burned more than one tonne of drugs seized during investigations.
The officers of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti Police Department of the Interior Ministry of Georgia have arrested a Ukrainian national identified as only O.S.
Georgian law enforcers have seized up to 10 kg heroin this year, the Georgian Interior Ministry says.
The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs has detained seven individuals for online drug trafficking, four are a family of a mother, father and two children.
The Interior Ministry has destroyed narcotic substances worth approximately 55 million GEL ($20 mln/€ 18 mln). The drugs were seized during 737 investigating operations conducted around the country at different times, the Ministry reported.
The Georgian Interior Ministry has detained two Georgian citizens for the purchase and possession of about 130 pills of Subutex in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. The crime is punishable by eight to 20 years in prison or life imprisonment.