Baric: 30 Kilograms of Marijuana Found at Illegal Dump
Police found several packages containing about 30 kilograms of dried plant matter suspected to be marijuana at an illegal dump in Baric, near Obrenovac. No suspects have been identified so far.
Police have found several packages containing roughly 30 kilograms of dry, green plant matter suspected to be marijuana in Baric, a settlement in the Belgrade municipality of Obrenovac. Unlike previous seizures, the drugs were not hidden in an apartment or a vehicle this time. They had been dumped at an illegal landfill, the Ministry of Interior said.
Officers from the on-duty unit of Intervention Unit 92 and police from the Crime Suppression Department of the Zvezdara police station worked the scene. An on-site investigation was carried out, and the seized material and other items were sent for forensic testing to confirm whether the substance is in fact marijuana.
Ivica Dacic, deputy prime minister of Serbia and minister of interior, announced the seizure to the public.
They found several packages with a total of 30 kilograms of dry, green plant matter resembling the narcotic marijuana
Dacic said in a statement on the Baric seizure.
The statement named no one arrested or under suspicion, not even by initials. Police, it added, are continuing to work on establishing the full circumstances of the case and identifying anyone connected to the drugs that were found. That sets the Baric seizure apart from a case reported earlier, in which 180 kilograms of marijuana and cocaine were found in an apartment in Sremska Mitrovica and the investigation began with a specific person already in the picture. Here the sequence runs the other way: the drugs surfaced first, and the circle of suspects still has to be closed around them.
Whether the material was meant for resale or was simply abandoned once it was discovered is something further work by police and prosecutors will have to determine.
