Police arrest 45, including 23 drug dealers, across Georgia
Teimuraz Kupatadze, the head of the Central Criminal Police department, told local media 14 foreign individuals were among those arrested. Photo: video grab.
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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”.
Teimuraz Kupatadze, the head of the Central Criminal Police department, told local media 14 foreign individuals were among those arrested.
Kupatadze also said police officers had seized “especially large amounts” of heroin, cocaine, alpha PVP, buprenorphine, methamphetamine and other drugs while searching the individuals, as well as residential houses and vehicles related to them.
The crimes are punishable by 20 years in prison or life imprisonment.
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.
Georgian police have arrested 10 individuals, including foreign citizens, for sale, purchase and possession of illegal drugs in Tbilisi and other regions of the country.
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.
Police have arrested 12 individuals, including 10 drug dealers, in the Ponichala and other districts of Tbilisi. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports that one of the 10 drug dealers is a citizen of Azerbaijan.
The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs on Tuesday announced the launch of regular patrols and inspections along the country’s Black Sea coastline following Monday’s explosion off the coast of Batumi.
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 have arrested ten individuals in Tbilisi and other regions of the country on charges of illegal purchase and possession of firearms and ammunition, the Georgian Interior Ministry said on Saturday.
Georgian police have arrested 10 individuals, including foreign citizens, for illegal drug-dealing in Tbilisi and other regions of the country.
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 on Thursday said law enforcement officers had arrested 55 individuals on drug-related charges, including 37 for drug-dealing.