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Sverdlovsk police have started detaining drug stashers using drones (VIDEO)
Officers of the Line Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs at Yekaterinburg-Passazhirsky station detained two residents of Sverdlovsk Region suspected of distributing drugs through “zakladki” (hidden caches) near the railway tracks at Revda station.
Specialists from the new unit for the use and operation of robotic complexes and unmanned aerial vehicles of the Transport Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Ural Federal District took part in the operation. From the air they monitored the suspects and recorded their illegal actions.
Police units responsible for combating drug trafficking identified the suspected dealers thanks to operational intelligence.
The police established the identities of the detainees: a 46-year-old worker at a local steelmaking enterprise and his 43-year-old live-in partner, who had no official employment. The man had no prior criminal record, whereas the woman had been convicted three times before: for robbery, for assault on a public official, and for theft.
During a search, officers found packets with a light-colored powder in the man’s left jacket pocket and in the woman’s trouser pocket. An examination showed it was heroin with a total mass of 0.933 grams.
Photos with coordinates of 20 stash locations that the pair had managed to set up by the time of their arrest were found on the detainees’ phones. Later, police seized similar packets of the narcotic substance from those locations with a total mass of more than 7 grams.
During questioning by investigators the detainees admitted to being drug dependent. According to them, they had been distributing drugs in Revda for about a month, including near the railway tracks. Following the instructions of a handler who contacted them via a messenger app, the pair made at least 30 “zakladki” a day and received about 4,000 rubles between them for this.
A criminal case has been opened. The detainees face up to 15 years in prison.
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Sverdlovsk police have started detaining drug stashers using drones (VIDEO)
Officers of the Line Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia at Yekaterinburg-Passazhirsky station detained two residents of Sverdlovsk Oblast who are suspected of distributing drugs via "stash points" near the railway tracks at Revda station.