Three residents of the Vitebsk region were transporting 74 kg of freshly cut hemp

October 5, Minsk /BelTA correspondent/. Polotsk border guards and police officers of the Verkhnedvinsk district detained three local residents who were transporting 74 kg of freshly cut cannabis in a car, the press center of the State Border Committee (GPC) of Belarus told a BelTA correspondent. Law enforcement officers learned about the existence of a cannabis plantation near the Western Dvina River. "We didn't have to wait long - at night, during operational-search activities, a Renault Megane car was detained, in which there were three local residents. 74 kg of freshly cut cannabis were seized from the foreign car," the GPC said. Investigative measures have been initiated in this regard. As noted in the committee, one of the detainees is 17 years old, and the other two were born in 1991.-0-