6 detained for drug trafficking, 4 kg heroin, 20 kg marijuana seized [VIDEO]
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Six individuals have been detained for drug trafficking by the Georgian Interior Ministry over the past several days, the ministry reports.
Police seized up to four kilograms of heroin and 20 kg marijuana from two of them.
The video released by the Georgian Interior Ministry regarding the detention.
The ministry says that four drug dealers have been detained in the village of Ponichala and the Marneuli region in eastern Georgia, “who were systematically selling drugs.”
The detainees face eight to 20 years in prison or life imprisonment,” the ministry stated.
The fifth individual was also detained in Ponichala, with a previous criminal record of robbery.
Police seized up to four kg heroin from his house,” the ministry says.
The sixth detainee is a citizen of South Africa, who was trying to smuggle in 20 kg marijuana.
The crime is punishable by 15-20 years in prison or life imprisonment,” the ministry states.
In the first six months of the year the Interior Ministry has seized:
- 21 kg heroin.
- 8.8 kg new psychoactive suspense.
- 1.9 kg cocaine.
- 900 grammes of psychotropic drugs.
Officers of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti Police Department of Georgia’s Interior Ministry have arrested one person, identified only as N.Dz., for the illegal purchase and possession of drugs as well as their transportation to Georgia.
The officers of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti Police Department of the Interior Ministry of Georgia have arrested a Ukrainian national identified as only O.S.
Tbilisi City Court has found eight people arrested during the 12 May 2018 nightclub raids guilty of the sale and distribution of drugs in large quantities at different night clubs in Tbilisi.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia says that 98 individuals have been charged for drug crimes over the past seven months.
The Georgian Interior Ministry has charged 77 individuals of smuggling drugs into Georgia in between January and July 2019. The Ministry reports that three were detained for attempting to smuggle drugs in Georgia several days ago.
Georgian police have seized a methadone substance in especially large quantities in the Georgian region of Samegrelo today. The operation ended up with the arrest of one individual identified only as T.M. born in 1976. The detainee faces from eight to twenty years or life in jail.
Police detained four for drug offenses including two drug dealers on August 11. Two of the detainees were arrested on the Tbilisi – Senaki – Leselidze highway. 1,002 pills of Subutex and 293 pills of MDMA were seized as the police officers searched the vehicle.
Georgian police officers have detained Turkish national, identified only as I.A. in the Georgian region of Adjara for drug possession and sale. The detainee, born in 1979, faces from seven to 14 years in jail. As part of the investigation law enforcers bought narcotics twice from the detainee before they arrested him.
Police have detained a Turkish citizen for drug dealing in the Georgian seaside town of Batumi yesterday. The individual only identified as E.I., born in 1987, was selling ecstasy.