Police seize 65 Suboxone pills in western Georgia
The individual, identified only as R.K., born in 1993, was found in possession of “especially large quantity of drugs” while driving. Photo: Interior Ministry video
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Police have detained a Georgian citizen for the purchase and possession of 65 pills of Suboxone in the western Georgian region of Samegrelo.
The Georgian Interior Ministry released a video of the detention:
The Georgian Interior Ministry reported today that the individual, identified only as R.K., born in 1993, was found in possession of “especially large quantity of drugs” while driving on the central highway.
The crime is punishable by eight to 20 years in prison or life imprisonment.
The Georgian Interior Ministry has recently destroyed narcotic and psychotropic drugs worth three million USD (9 million GEL), confiscated during the investigation of 765 different cases around the country.
The Georgian Interior Ministry reports that they have detained eight individuals for drug crimes over the past several days. Five of the detainees are drug traffickers, the ministry says.
The Georgian Interior Ministry has destroyed narcotic and psychotropic drugs worth three million USD (9 million GEL), confiscated during the investigation of 765 different cases around the country, the ministry has reported earlier today.
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.
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.
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.
Georgian police have detained two foreign nationals for the possession of 1,557 pills of ecstasy. The police have not released information pertaining to the the countries of origin of the detainees.
Police have detained a Georgian citizen for the purchase and possession of 12 packs of heroin in the western Georgian region of Imereti. The Georgian Interior Ministry reported today that the individual, identified only as O.Ch., born in 1946, was found in possession of “especially large quantity of drugs”.
The Georgian Justice Ministry has opened the first ever Drug Situation Monitoring National Centre in Tbilisi which will have to respond to drug-related challenges in the country. The ministry says that to open the centre they have been “closely cooperating” with the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) over the past five years.
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.
Georgian police officers have detained one individual for drug offences in the west Georgian town of Poti today.
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.