In Khabarovsk, the police detained an attacker who was transporting drugs in slow cookers.

Khabarovsk police detained an attacker who was transporting drugs hidden in slow cookers. This was announced on March 18 by the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Irina Volk in the Telegram channel.

"According to preliminary information, an employee of one of the illegal online stores selling illegal substances received parcels with slow cookers in which his accomplices hid drugs at the branch of a logistics company in the city of Khabarovsk. After taking the criminal goods, the man went to the city of Vladivostok to sell them," she said.

Subsequently, law enforcement officers managed to track down two more drug dealers from Primorsky Krai. They were captured by the transport police while receiving a large shipment of synthetic substances in the forest.

Three accomplices were also involved in the scheme, who were engaged in obtaining prohibited substances through marketplaces, as well as the most effective disguise of drugs in household appliances.

"In total, the transport police seized about nine kilograms of mephedrone, five kilograms of N-methylephedrone and over five thousand MDMA tablets weighing over 2.5 kg from illegal traffic," Irina Volk said.

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