Police detain one for bride kidnapping in Kvemo Kartli
The crime is punishable by seven to ten years in prison. Photo: Shot from Interior Ministry video
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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, identified only as A.K. and born in 2002.
Interior Ministry released video footage of the detention:
Yesterday G.M., with the help of the three accomplices, tried to abduct A.K. to force her to marry him.
The crime is punishable by seven to ten years in prison.
Nino Lomjaria visited Marneuli yesterday. Photo: Ombudsman's Facebook page
Public Defender Nino Lomjaria visited the abducted girls’s family, witnesses and the local police yesterday.
Lomjaria was told that the girl was against the marriage, she resisting while being kidnapped and asked for help, but in vain.
A foreign citizen has been detained at Tbilisi International Airport for smuggling a large amount of drugs into Georgia.
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 the video of detention, without specifying the nationality of the detainee.
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 premediated murder and car theft in the village of Tkinvali, Ozurgeti Municipality in the western Georgian region of Guria.
One individual has been detained in Tbilisi for drug possession and trafficking.
Three individuals have been imprisoned for drug trafficking through the internet.