In Lipetsk, a drug courier was sentenced to 8 years of strict regime
28-year-old resident of Lebedyan received 8 years in a strict regime colony for trying to distribute drugs through caches in Lipetsk

A 28-year-old resident of Lebedyan received 8 years in a strict regime colony for trying to distribute drugs through stashes in Lipetsk. The man acted on the instructions of curators on the Internet, but to bring the plan to the end could not, said the Prosecutor’s office of the Lipetsk region.
According to the Prosecutor’s office of the Lipetsk region, the young man laid out in the caches of bundles with methylephedron, then they were taken by buyers. In February 2026, police detained him near one of the houses on Democratic Street. Initially, law enforcement officers suspected the man of administrative offences related to drugs.
On the same day, staff found stashes containing about 2.17 grams of drugs. The court found the man guilty of attempted drug sales by an organized group on a large scale.
In addition to 8 years of imprisonment, at the request of the state prosecutor, the convict was confiscated to the state income of the phone, which was used in the commission of the crime. The sentence has not yet entered into force.



