Correspondence in WhatsApp* helped the police to find a cache of methadone in Donskoy

The Don city court sentenced the previously convicted man to six months in prison for attempting to illegally purchase drugs for personal use. He was going to take the banned substance from the cache, but was detained by police, told “MK in Tula” in the joint press service of the courts and the local police.

As it turned out during the proceedings, in July 2026, the man ordered the drug through WhatsApp* (owned by Meta - recognized as an extremist organization and banned in Russia) from an unknown seller. Having received the coordinates of the bookmark, he went to buy, but on July 15 he was detained before he managed to pick up the package.

During the search, the man’s phone was seized. The correspondence revealed the photo and coordinates of the cache. Police checked the area and found 0.42 grams of methadone.

At the hearing, the defendant pleaded guilty and repented. The court appointed him six months in a maximum security colony. After the announcement of the sentence, the man was taken into custody right in the courtroom, changing the previously chosen measure of restraint.

The sentence has not yet entered into force and can be appealed.

Earlier, “MK in Tula” told about a similar case in Novomoskovsk.

Then the police found in the phone of a local resident photos and coordinates of drug caches.

According to one of the tips on the street Youth found a flask with powder. The man was suspected of distributing prohibited substances through bookmarks, what happened next, read our material.