{"id":534551,"date":"2026-04-17T14:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=534551"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:13:10","slug":"latvian-citizen-tried-to-bring-psychotropic-substances-into-belarus-hidden-in-a-keychain-and-vitamin-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/latvian-citizen-tried-to-bring-psychotropic-substances-into-belarus-hidden-in-a-keychain-and-vitamin-bottle","title":{"rendered":"Latvian Citizen Tried to Bring Psychotropic Substances Into Belarus Hidden in a Keychain and Vitamin Bottle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>At the Hryharoushchyna checkpoint, Vitsyebsk customs officers discovered psychotropic substances in the belongings of a Latvian citizen who arrived as a passenger in a car.<\/p>\n<p>A service dog indicated the presence of prohibited substances. During the inspection of the man\u2019s personal belongings, yellow and purple pills were removed from a capsule-shaped keychain and a container labeled \u201cMultivitamins.\u201d According to experts from the State Forensic Examination Committee\u2019s Vitsyebsk Regional Department, the pills contained the psychotropic substances tramadol and alprazolam.<\/p>\n<p>A criminal case has been opened against the detainee under Part 1 of Article 328-1 of the Criminal Code. He faces up to seven years in prison.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_534511\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-534511\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-17_12-50-53.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-534511 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-17_12-50-53.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-17_12-50-53.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-17_12-50-53-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-17_12-50-53-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-17_12-50-53-599x400.jpg 599w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-534511\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: t.me\/customs_bel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_534510\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-534510\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-17_12-50-53-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-534510 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-17_12-50-53-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-17_12-50-53-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-17_12-50-53-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-17_12-50-53-2-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-17_12-50-53-2-599x400.jpg 599w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-534510\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: t.me\/customs_bel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_534509\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-534509\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-17_12-50-52.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-534509 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-17_12-50-52.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-17_12-50-52.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-17_12-50-52-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-17_12-50-52-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-17_12-50-52-599x400.jpg 599w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-534509\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: t.me\/customs_bel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_534507\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-534507\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-17_12-50-51.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-534507 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-17_12-50-51.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-17_12-50-51.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-17_12-50-51-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-17_12-50-51-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-17_12-50-51-599x400.jpg 599w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-534507\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: t.me\/customs_bel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Hryharoushchyna checkpoint, Vitsyebsk customs officers discovered psychotropic substances in the belongings of a Latvian citizen who arrived as a passenger in a car. A service dog indicated the presence of prohibited substances. During the inspection of the man\u2019s personal belongings, yellow and purple pills were removed from a capsule-shaped keychain and a container [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":534550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69e223d949183.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Latvian Citizen Tried to Bring Psychotropic Substances Into Belarus Hidden in a Keychain and Vitamin Bottle"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[143171],"class_list":["post-534551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident","tag-latvija"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}