Police detain 11 drug dealers in Ponichala, Tbilisi
The crime is punishable by eight to 20 years in prison or life imprisonment. Photo: screenshot from the video of MIA.
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Georgian law enforcers of the MIA Central Criminal Police Department have detained 11 drug dealers in Ponichala district in Tbilisi today.
The detainees have been accused of the systematic illegal purchase, possession and sale of drugs in especially large quantities.
Officers of MIA Central Criminal #Police Department, along with employees of the General Prosecutor’s Office, as a result of joint operative-search & investigative activities detained 11 #drug dealers in Ponitchala.https://t.co/bmVrfnf6IK pic.twitter.com/2BOqPs4jsT
— MIA of Georgia (@MIAofGeorgia) September 23, 2020
Heroin, cash and mobile phones were seized by the law enforcers as evidence from the apartments of the detainees.
The crime is punishable by eight to 20 years in prison or life imprisonment.
Police officers of the Main Division for Illicit Drug Trafficking have detained four drug dealers and seized a large quantity of drugs in Tbilisi and Marneuli municipality in eastern Georgia.
Georgian law enforcers have detained four drug dealers in Ponichala district in Tbilisi and in Gardabani, Georgia’s eastern Kvemo Kartli region.
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.
The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs has stated that over the course of the first 10 months of 2018, 192 drug dealers have been detained in the Ponichala district of Tbilisi alone.
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