{"id":561595,"date":"2026-07-22T13:25:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=561595"},"modified":"2026-07-22T14:07:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T11:07:20","slug":"german-citizen-detained-with-marijuana-at-the-belarusian-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/german-citizen-detained-with-marijuana-at-the-belarusian-border","title":{"rendered":"German Citizen Detained With Marijuana at the Belarusian Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A 53-year-old German citizen was detained at the Belarusian-Polish border after marijuana was found among his belongings.<\/p>\n<p>The man was entering Belarus on a regular bus through the Brest border crossing. While going through customs, he chose the green channel. A service dog alerted officers to the foreign national. During an inspection, customs officers found a container with a green substance hidden in his underwear.<\/p>\n<p>An examination established that the seized substance was more than 8 grams of marijuana, the State Customs Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/customs_bel\/13576\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A criminal case has been opened against the German citizen under Part 1 of Article 328-1 of the Criminal Code (illegal transportation of narcotic drugs across the border). He faces up to seven years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 53-year-old German citizen was detained at the Belarusian-Polish border after marijuana was found among his belongings. The man was entering Belarus on a regular bus through the Brest border crossing. While going through customs, he chose the green channel. A service dog alerted officers to the foreign national. During an inspection, customs officers found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":561594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a60a46beb6a8.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"German Citizen Detained With Marijuana at the Belarusian Border"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,142373,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-germany","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561595","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=561595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}