SARAJEVO: Drug cultivation and production laboratory found, one person arrested

SARAJEVO, (Patria) - In activities related to the discovery of narcotic drugs in the Sarajevo Canton area, based on an order from the Municipal Court in Sarajevo, and under the supervision of the Cantonal Prosecutor's Office of Sarajevo Canton, police officers of the Department for Combating Narcotic Drug Abuse, Sector of Criminal Police of the Police Administration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Sarajevo Canton, yesterday searched the house, yard, and accompanying premises used by T.B., born in 2000 in Sarajevo, where he resides, in Kenana Demirovića street, municipality of Novi Grad Sarajevo.

The following was found and seized:

- one complete indoor laboratory for the cultivation and production of narcotic drug "IN DOOR" consisting of four plants resembling the plant species cannabis sativa, one grow box for cultivating marijuana, one humidifier, one dehumidifier, an air filter with a flexible hose and a filter with a fan, one lighting-heating unit, two thermostats, two fans, two timers, and one bag with CO2 content,

- 26 tablets resembling the narcotic drug ecstasy,

- a certain amount of dry herbaceous matter resembling the narcotic drug marijuana,

- one bag with a substance resembling the narcotic drug MDMA, and

- one digital scale.

The duty prosecutor of the Cantonal Prosecutor's Office of Sarajevo Canton was informed about everything, and T.B. was deprived of his liberty, due to the existence of grounds for suspicion that he committed the criminal offense under Article 238, Paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Unauthorized Production and Trafficking of Narcotic Drugs) and was handed over to the detention facilities for persons deprived of liberty of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Sarajevo Canton.

Police officers are continuing the criminal investigation of the mentioned person.