Police seize 12 packs of heroin in western Georgia
The individual, identified only as O.Ch., born in 1946, was found in possession of “especially large quantity of drugs” in Kutaisi. Photo: Shot from Interior Ministry video
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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” in Kutaisi.
The Georgian Interior Ministry released a video of the detention:
The ministry also noted that the individual had been formerly convicted and is currently on parole for drug offences.
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.
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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 crime is punishable by eight to 20 years in prison or life imprisonment.
One individual has been detained for drug trafficking, the Georgian Interior Ministry reports.
The Georgian Interior Ministry has detained two Iranian and an Azerbaijani citizen for the purchase and possession of about two kg of heroin in the eastern Georgian region of Kvemo Kartli. 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 two Bulgarian citizens for the purchase and possession of 40kg of heroin in the Black Sea region of Adjara. The Bulgarians had smuggled ‘an especially large quantity of drugs’ with the intention of selling them in Europe.
Georgian police have confiscated 6.5 kilograms of heroin from an individual living in the Georgian village of Vakiri in Signagi municipality, eastern Georgia.
Customs officers have seized illicit drugs in a postal item that was coming through Tbilisi International Airport, says the Revenue Service of Georgia.
Georgian police have detained an Iranian citizen for illegal purchase, possession and attempted smuggling of a large amount of drugs through western Georgia's port city of Poti, the Head of the Central Criminal Police Department said on Thursday.