{"id":557911,"date":"2026-07-08T12:29:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T09:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=557911"},"modified":"2026-07-08T13:11:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T10:11:52","slug":"kazakh-truck-driver-arrives-in-belarus-with-marijuana-and-hashish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/kazakh-truck-driver-arrives-in-belarus-with-marijuana-and-hashish","title":{"rendered":"Kazakh Truck Driver Arrives in Belarus With Marijuana and Hashish"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belarusian customs officers have detained a Kazakh citizen found to be carrying marijuana and hashish, the State Customs Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/customs_bel\/13472\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The truck entered Belarus from Latvia through the Hryharoushchyna border crossing. During an inspection, customs officers found a packet containing &#8220;a substance of plant origin&#8221; among the driver&#8217;s personal belongings. Another packet, hidden in the windowsill of the passport control booth, was discovered by a service dog.<\/p>\n<p>A forensic genetic examination showed that the second packet also belonged to the driver. Experts identified the substances in the packets as hashish and marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>Two criminal cases have been opened against the driver on charges of illegal drug trafficking and the illegal transportation of narcotic drugs across the border. He faces up to seven years in prison.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_557874\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-557874\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-557874\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-08_12-27-40.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-08_12-27-40.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-08_12-27-40-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-08_12-27-40-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-08_12-27-40-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-08_12-27-40-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-557874\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: State Customs Committee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_557875\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-557875\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-557875\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-08_12-27-43.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-08_12-27-43.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-08_12-27-43-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-08_12-27-43-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-08_12-27-43-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-08_12-27-43-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-557875\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: State Customs Committee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarusian customs officers have detained a Kazakh citizen found to be carrying marijuana and hashish, the State Customs Committee reported. The truck entered Belarus from Latvia through the Hryharoushchyna border crossing. During an inspection, customs officers found a packet containing &#8220;a substance of plant origin&#8221; among the driver&#8217;s personal belongings. Another packet, hidden in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":557910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a4e226b8d166.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Kazakh Truck Driver Arrives in Belarus With Marijuana and Hashish"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557911","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=557911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}