Police arrest 55 on drug violations across Georgia
Involving charges for sale, purchase, possession, illegal planting, growing and cultivation of drugs, the offences are punishable by 20 years in prison or life imprisonment. Photo: Interior Ministry
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Georgian police on Thursday said law enforcement officers had arrested 55 individuals on drug-related charges, including 37 for drug-dealing.
Central Criminal Police Department Head Teimuraz Kupatadze said the individuals had concealed the substances before communicating their positions to persons interested in purchasing the drugs.
He added police officers had seized “especially large amounts” of heroin, cocaine, alpha PVP, methamphetamine, marijuana and other drugs as well as money allegedly obtained from drug sales during searches of the individuals, residential houses and vehicles related to them.
He also said police officers had seized a firearm, 26 cartridges and two magazines from one of the arrested individuals.
Involving charges for sale, purchase, possession, illegal planting, growing and cultivation of drugs, the offences are punishable by 20 years in prison or life imprisonment.
Four individuals have been arrested for group extortion of large amounts of money, group violence, illegal possession of drugs and failure to report crime, Georgia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs said on Wednesday.
Georgian police on Tuesday said law enforcement officers had arrested 45 individuals, including 23 drug dealers, for sale, purchase, possession and smuggling of drugs across the country “over the recent period”.
Law enforcement officers have arrested 58 individuals, including 31 drug dealers, for the sale, purchase, possession and smuggling of drugs across the country over the recent period, Georgian police said on Thursday.
Georgian police have arrested 10 individuals, including foreign citizens, for illegal drug-dealing in Tbilisi and other regions of the country.
Georgian customs officers seized a total of ₾55,582 ($21,972) in undeclared gold items on Georgia’s south-western Sarpi border crossing with Turkey, the Revenue Service announced on Thursday.
Georgian police have detained an Iranian citizen for illegal purchase, possession and attempted smuggling of a large amount of drugs through western Georgia's port city of Poti, the Head of the Central Criminal Police Department said on Thursday.
Georgian police on Thursday said law enforcement officers had arrested 52 individuals on drug-related charges, including 37 for drug-dealing, sale, purchase, possession and smuggling of drugs, in capital Tbilisi and other regions of the country.
Law enforcement officers and the Revenue Service's Customs Department arrested three foreign citizens on drug-related charges, including purchase, possession and smuggling of drugs across the country over the recent period, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday.
Georgian police on Tuesday said law enforcement officers had arrested more than 10 individuals, including a Ukrainian citizen, on drug-related charges in ongoing operations across the country.
Georgian police on Wednesday said law enforcement officers had arrested 112 individuals on drug-related charges, including 66 for drug-dealing, in capital Tbilisi and other regions of the country.
Interior Ministry statistics show 4,023 out of 5,492 individuals tested for drug use had confirmed cases of use across Georgia over the past year, with the figures including 10 minors.
Georgian police on Friday said law enforcement officers had arrested 270 individuals on drug-related charges, including 27 for drug-dealing, across the country since the beginning of the year.