Police seize large quantities of drugs in Kvemo Kartli region, arrest one

Police officers have seized especially large quantities of drugs in the town of Marneuli, in the Kvemo Kartli region and arrested one, identified only as I.G. yesterday.

Police report that the detainee, born in 1967, faced charges in past and currently is on parole.

The law enforcers have seized narcotic substance that consisted of 30 gram of heroine as a result of personal search of the detainee. 

The detainee faces from eight to twenty years in jail.

Take a look at the video the Interior Ministry has released:

Georgian police officers also arrested 13 people for drug offences in the coastal town of Anaklia in Samegrelo yesterday. 

The detention took place in the vicinity of the area where music festival Echowaves is underway.