25 July 2003
Suspected amphetamine dealer arrested in Brest
Officers of the regional vice and drug control police department in Brest seized 450 grams of amphetamine from a Brest district resident on July 19. The 32-year-old man was arrested when he was trying to sell 1,491 amphetamine pills, estimated at $5,000, in a bar on Kovelskaya Street, the press service of the Brest Regional Police Office told BelaPAN.
The police currently try to trace the origin of the amphetamine.
In the first half of the year, the Brest region's drug control officers seized more than 85 kilograms of poppy straw, around 1.5 kg of marijuana, almost 43 kg of extracted opium, 357 grams of acetylated opium, 210 grams of heroine, 1.1 gram of cocaine and 1.4 kilograms of various illicit stimulants, the regional vice and drug control department told BelaPAN.
As many as 746 residents of the Brest region have been diagnosed as being drug addicts and 374 people have been registered as drug users, according to the department.
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