Georgian police confiscate 6.5 kg of heroin (VIDEO)
The detainee faces 8-20 years in prison or life imprisonment if convicted. Photo: Interior Ministry press office.
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Georgian police have confiscated 6.5 kilograms of heroin from an individual living in the Georgian village of Vakiri in Signagi municipality, eastern Georgia.
Video by Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The detainee is a 35-year-old man.
The crime is punishable by 8-20 years in prison or life imprisonment.
A monk has been detained in Georgia’s western Samegrelo region for possession of drugs, the Georgian Public Broadcaster reports.
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”.
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.
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.
Customs officers have seized illicit drugs in a postal item that was coming through Tbilisi International Airport, says the Revenue Service of Georgia.