Police arrest two for drug dealing in Samegrelo region
The crime is punishable by eight to 20 years in prison or life imprisonment. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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Police in western Georgia’s Samegrelo region arrested three individuals, including two charged with drug dealing, the Ministry of Internal Affairs said on Tuesday.
Identified only through their initials, the apprehended persons include G.CH., charged with illegal purchase and possession of large quantities of drugs.
The group also involves individuals identified as A.K. and A.G., and charged with illegal purchase, possession and sale of narcotic substances.
Police officers seized “especially large quantities” of various types of drugs during the personal search of offenders, the ministry said.
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 arrested four individuals for the illegal purchase and possession of large quantities of drugs in Tbilisi, Zugdidi and Marneuli, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia (MIA) reports.
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 Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said the sale of psychotropic drugs should be tightened and he will personally oversee the issue.
Police departments across Georgia increased their rate of solving criminal cases from 35.5 percent to 49.8 percent last year, Minister of Internal Affairs Vakhtang Gomelauri told chiefs of departments from across the country in a meeting on Friday.
Georgian police have arrested 11 individuals, including a foreign citizen, for illegal purchase and possession of large quantities of drugs in the cities of Tbilisi and Rustavi on Thursday, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia announced.