Volyn law enforcement officers caught another drug courier red-handed. A 33-year-old resident of the village of Ladyn in the Lyuboml district was engaged in the production and sale of poppy straw. Law enforcement officers detained the woman during an undercover purchase of poppy straw. This was reported to the Western Information Corporation on January 20 by the Central Public Relations Service of the UMVS of Ukraine in the Volyn region.
In addition, a pleasant surprise for the Volyn VBNON officers was the detention of buyers of the harmful potion, who were residents of Volodymyr-Volynskyi and had just purchased it from the "drug courier" and were trying to transport it home. However, the officers of the Lyuboml DPS "Kobra" platoon, who had already been alerted to the car that had driven away from the suspect's house, prevented the "would-be intermediaries" from carrying out their plan.
During the search of the car, the state traffic inspectors found and seized 17 kilograms of crushed poppy straw. From the citizen who was selling the poppy straw, law enforcement officers seized about three more kilograms of the harmful potion. Police officers claim that the price of the seized poppy straw on the "black" market is more than four thousand hryvnias. If it is sold through intermediaries, this amount doubles, or even triples.