Turkish citizen detained for drug dealing in Batumi [Video]
The individual only identified as E.I., born in 1987, was selling ecstasy. Photo: Interior Ministry press office
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Police have detained a Turkish citizen for drug dealing in the Georgian seaside town of Batumi yesterday.
The video shows how police officers detained the individual:
The individual only identified as E.I., born in 1987, was selling ecstasy.
The crime is punishable by eight to 20 years in prison or life imprisonment.
Police have detained two Georgian citizens for the purchase and possession of a large quantity of drugs in the country’s Black Sea region of Adjara. The crime is punishable by eight to 20 years in prison or life imprisonment.
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.
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.
Six individuals have been detained for drug trafficking by the Georgian Interior Ministry over the past several days, the ministry reports.
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.
Georgian police have seized heroin in especially large quantities from a Turkish citizen in Georgia’s western coastal city of Batumi. The individual, who was identified as M.I., 46, has been charged with the possession of drugs.
Five individuals have been detained for sale of drugs by Central Criminal Police Department in Tbilisi, Ponichala district and Gardabani municipality today, Director of the Central Criminal Department Mamuka Chelidze announced at a briefing today.
Six drug traffickers have been detained in Tbilisi, in Ponichala district this month, with large quantity of drugs confiscated, the Georgian Interior Ministry has reported earlier today.
Georgian police have detained an individual at Tbilisi International Airport earlier today for smuggling in 508 pills of subutex and three pills of methadone from Turkey.