Foreigner detained for illegal possession of 220 pills of Subutex in Georgia
The Interior Ministry released video footage of the detention, but did not specify the nationality of the detainee. Photo: Shot from Interior Ministry video on Facebook
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The Georgian police have detained one foreign citizen for the illegal purchase and possession of 220 pills of Subutex in the Kvemo Kartli region.
The Interior Ministry released video footage of the detention, but did not specify the nationality of the detainee:
The Ministry reported today that the individual, identified only as E.A. and born in 1982, was found in possession of “especially large quantity of drugs” in Gardabani municipality.
The crime is punishable by eight to 20 years in prison or life imprisonment.
Georgian police officers have detained one individual for drug offences in the west Georgian town of Poti today.
Police have detained three Georgian citizens for the purchase and possession of over 22 gr of heroin and 50 pills of methadone in the Georgian Black Sea region of Adjara. Police have seized illegal firearms and ammunition in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi as well.
Police have detained a Georgian citizen for the purchase and possession of 65 pills of Suboxone in the western Georgian region of Samegrelo. The crime is punishable by eight to 20 years in prison or life imprisonment.
A foreign citizen has been detained at Tbilisi International Airport for smuggling a large amount of drugs into Georgia.
Police have detained a Georgian citizen for violence against his wife in the Georgian Black Sea region of Adjara today. The individual, identified only as G.Kh. and born in 1982, verbally insulted and physically attacked her wife in the small town of Chakvi in Kobuleti Municipality.
Police have detained a Georgian citizen for bride kidnapping in the town of Marneuli, Kvemo Kartli region. The Georgian Interior Ministry reported today that the individual, identified only as G.M. and born in 1998, kidnapped a girl, to force her to marry him.
One individual has been detained in Tbilisi for drug possession and trafficking.
The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs has destroyed narcotic and psychoactive substances worth 6.5 mln GEL ($2.3 mln/€2.1 mln) which were seized in 765 cases of drug deals, says the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The Georgian police have detained a Georgian citizen for the illegal possession of firearms in the eastern Georgian region of Kvemo Kartli. Meanwhile, two individuals have been detained for domestic violence in the Black Sea region of Adjara and Samtskhe-Javakheti.
One man of Chechen origin has been detained during a special operation on Kavtaradze street in Tbilisi, reports Rustavi 2. Media report that the detainee is suspected of involvement in narcotics crimes.
Georgian law enforcers have detained three Ukrainian citizens for the purchase, possession and sale of drugs. 779 pills of Subutex have been confiscated from the apartments of the detainees in Tbilisi.
Police have detained a Georgian citizen for the purchase and possession of four packs of heroin in Georgia’s eastern Kvemo Kartli region.
Georgian law enforcers have detained a Russian citizen, identified only as A.A. for the purchase and possession of drugs in large quantities.
Georgian police have detained one individual in Georgia’s coastal city of Batumi for the possession and sale of heroin in large quantities with the use of social media and Internet applications.
Georgian law enforcers of the MIA Central Criminal Police Department have detained three drug dealers in the Ponichala district in Tbilisi today.
The Georgian Interior Ministry has proposed tougher punishment for the sale of drugs, as well as for psychotropic and psychoactive substances.
Police have detained a Turkish citizen for the illegal purchase and possession of over 2kg of cocaine at Tbilisi International Airport earlier today.