Krusevac Driver Arrested With 1.25 Kg of Marijuana in Car
Marijuana in Krusevac was found in a stopped car, packed in two vacuum-sealed bags weighing roughly 1.25 kilograms combined. The suspect has been ordered held for up to 48 hours.
The Krusevac Police Department has arrested N. N. (1981), a local resident, on suspicion of unauthorized production and trafficking of narcotics. Marijuana in Krusevac was found during a routine traffic check, in the passenger car the suspect was driving. Serbia’s Interior Ministry (MUP) announced the arrest on August 3, 2026.
Officers stopped the car and, during the search, came across two vacuum-sealed packages. Inside was green plant matter suspected to be marijuana. The combined weight came to roughly 1.25 kilograms.
What was found in the car
According to the police statement, the sequence of events was short and unremarkable:
- a passenger car was stopped during a routine traffic check
- the search of the vehicle turned up two vacuum-sealed packages
- the contents were weighed at roughly one kilogram and 250 grams of green plant matter
- the suspect was ordered held for up to 48 hours, on the prosecutor’s order
The suspect, along with a criminal complaint, will be handed over to the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Krusevac. Until a court reaches a final ruling, he is only charged with the offense, and guilt is not established by a police statement.
How much is 1.25 kilograms of marijuana?
That quantity sits above the threshold typically treated as personal use in practice, which is why the charge cites trafficking rather than simple possession. The vacuum sealing is a detail that carries weight here. Vacuum packaging cuts down odor and extends shelf life, and in seizures it is usually tied to preparation for resale rather than a purchase meant for personal consumption.
The offense the suspect is charged with, under Article 246 of the Criminal Code, carries a base sentence of three to twelve years in prison.
Traffic patrols as a channel of discovery
The Krusevac case fits a pattern that keeps showing up in police statements over the summer. Seizures increasingly come not from lengthy investigative work but from routine vehicle stops on the road. A patrol pulls a car over for a traffic check, searches it, and that is where the story ends.
We reported on a similar outcome in the arrest of three men in Nis, where cocaine was seized along with cash in three currencies. There too, the find came through police action on the ground rather than a tip from the public.
A car is a logical tool for dealers, since the goods inside it are not tied to one location and are harder to link to an address. That same choice is also the most exposed one, since every traffic check becomes a potential trunk search. Krusevac sits at the crossroads of routes toward Nis, Kraljevo and Pojate, so traffic passes through the city without necessarily stopping there.
What the plant matter turns out to be will be confirmed by forensic analysis. Until then, what is officially known is only what the Interior Ministry stated: two packages, roughly 1.25 kilograms, and one suspect awaiting the prosecutor.
