Large drug bust sees 28 arrested, 1 kg of various narcotics seized
The crime is punishable by eight to 20 years in prison or life imprisonment. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge
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Georgian police have detained 20 drug dealers and eight other individuals for the illegal purchase and possession of a total of over one kg of heroin and 129 pills of Subutex in the Ponichala district outskirts of Tbilisi.
The investigation established that the detained drug dealers were selling drugs on a regular basis.Following the relevant court ruling, the law enforcers repeatedly carried out the so-called “control purchases” of "Heroin" and "Alpha-PVP" drugs from the defendants and recorded the process”, the interior ministry announced yesterday.
It also said that the law enforcers of its Central Criminal Police Department and Special Tasks Department in cooperation with the General Prosecutor’s Office carried out a ‘complex operative and investigative activities’.
The crime is punishable by eight to 20 years in prison or life imprisonment.
Georgian law enforcers of the Central Criminal Police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) have detained 11 drug dealers in Ponichala district in Tbilisi and in Marneuli earlier today. The detainees have been accused of the illegal purchase, possession and sale of drugs in especially large quantities.
Georgian police have detained one individual in Georgia’s coastal city of Batumi for the possession and sale of heroin in large quantities with the use of social media and Internet applications.
Georgian law enforcers have detained one individual for the illegal purchase and possession of drugs, reports the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia (MIA).
Police have detained one individual with a previous conviction for the illegal purchase and possession of drugs in especially large quantities, illegal possession of firearms and ammunition in the Adjara region.
Georgian Interior Minister Vakhtang Gomelauri’s parliamentary address on the violence of July 5-6 in Tbilisi has been postponed due to an opposition protest.
368 kilograms of heroin worth $24 million has been seized on the territory of Ukraine in an eight-month international operation with the involvement of Georgian, Armenian and Ukrainian law enforcers, the Georgian Interior Ministry reported earlier today.
Police have arrested 20 drug dealers in various cities of Georgia such as Tbilisi - Ponichala district, Rustavi, Batumi, Kutaisi and Bolnisi municipality in Georgia's eastern Kvemo Kartli region today. The police said that the detainees ‘were systematically selling drugs to citizens.’
A foreign citizen, identified as R.V. and born in 1988, was detained for drug crime in Tbilisi yesterday. The Georgian Interior Ministry has reported that R.V. was involved in the scheme of online drug sale.
Police have arrested a 34-year-old foreign citizen for selling drugs online in Tbilisi earlier today. The Interior Ministry reports that the man was arrested when he intended to deliver methadone-containing drugs for further sale to various spots in Nadzaladevi district.
Georgian police have arrested four foreign citizens on Thursday in Tbilisi, with the individuals charged for selling drugs online.
The Georgian police arrested 22 individuals, including 17 for drug dealing, in the Ponichala district of Tbilisi and in a number of regions of Georgia on Tuesday, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia announced.
Georgian police officers have arrested 24 individuals, including 18 drug dealers, for sale, purchase and possession of drugs in Tbilisi and other regions of the country.