Police detain 5 including a drug dealer in Adjara region, seize large quantity of drugs
The crime is punishable by 20 years in prison or life imprisonment. Photo: The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia/video grab.
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Police have detained five individuals, including a drug dealer in Georgia’s Black Sea region of Adjara today, reports the Interior Ministry.
An official statement released by the Interior Ministry reads that four among the five detainees are foreign citizens.
The offenders, identified only as B.A., T.D., A.G., have been detained for the illegal purchase and possession of drugs.
Police seized over 247 packages of drugs, including Alpha-PVP during the personal search of two detainees. Photo: MIA/video grab.
Another individual, identified only as A.G., was detained in Batumi for the illegal purchase and possession of drugs. The Interior Ministry says that he had been convicted in the past.
Police officers have seized 10 packages of Alpha-PVP during the personal search of A.G.
Police have also seized 247 packages of drugs, including Alpha-PVP during the personal search of two other individuals, identified only as V.K. and O.P.
The crime is punishable by 20 years in prison or life imprisonment.
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.
Police have detained 21 individuals, including a 17-year-old minor, for drug crimes in Tbilisi, Lagodekhi, Marneuli, Rustavi and Batumi 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.’
The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs has destroyed narcotic and psychoactive substances worth 6.5 mln GEL ($2.3 mln/€2.1 mln) which were seized in 765 cases of drug deals, says the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Police have arrested 11 drug dealers, including a foreign citizen, in the last 10 days in Tbilisi, the Director of the Criminal Police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Mamuka Chelidze, said today.
The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs has uncovered an online drug trafficking scheme and arrested five drug dealers in the country’s coastal Adjara region and capital Tbilisi, the Ministry said on Thursday.