Six arrests for drug possession and production in 24 hours

Members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs yesterday deprived six persons of liberty for possession and enabling the use of narcotic drugs, as well as illegal production and placing on the market of narcotic drugs, writes the Bosnian news agency Patria.

At several locations in the Sarajevo Canton, persons were found in whose possession drugs were discovered during a search. In the Sarajevo neighborhood of Dobrinja, J.I., born in 1989, was deprived of liberty after discarding a packet of marijuana; he had been previously arrested for possession.

On Franca Lehara Street at 7:00 PM, K.V., born in 1993, was arrested, in whose possession a packet of marijuana was found, and at 7:10 PM, A.E., born in 1994, was also arrested, in whose possession the same substance was found.

On Maršala Tita Street last night around 9:15 PM, police officers searched D.D., born in 1996, and found two packets containing marijuana and speed.

- Police officers from the Department for Combating Drug Abuse of the Police Administration of this Ministry deprived R.K., born in 1983 in Sarajevo, residing in Hadžići, of liberty. A search of the house used by R.K. on Binježevo Street, Hadžići municipality, resulted in the discovery and seizure of 80 grams of a substance resembling the narcotic drug amphetamine, one packet of the narcotic drug amphetamine, 5 packets of a plant-like substance resembling the narcotic drug marijuana, and 9 blue tablets resembling the narcotic drug Ecstasy - the MUP KS stated.

On Kalemova Street, in the apartment used by F.F., a personal search and a search of the apartment resulted in the discovery and seizure of 580 tablets from the narcotic group heptanone, one bottle with a liquid resembling the narcotic drug methadone, and one packet with a substance resembling the narcotic drug marijuana.

After the completion of the criminal investigation, both were handed over today to the competent prosecutor of the Cantonal Prosecutor's Office in Sarajevo.