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Empty transparent baggies, a precision electronic scale and a phone with its screen lit up on a dark surface — illustrative image.
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17 drug criminal cases in Ungheni in 2026 — already more than in all of 2025

In response to a public-interest request, the Ungheni Police Inspectorate disclosed the raion's drug caseload: 12 criminal cases in 2025 and 17 since the start of 2026, young people aged 17–20 among those detained, a network that sold on Telegram, and an admission by the institution itself — that police presence on the ground ‘is insufficient’ without modern technology. What the figures and the articles of law behind them actually mean.

Ion Calmis·20 July 2026· Analysis
Evidence laid out on the floor and photographed by police: stacks of printed zip-lock baggies, a precision electronic scale, a blackened spoon and small, dark pieces of hashish.
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Why Telegram drug networks look for couriers who are exactly 18 — police detained one of them in Ungheni

The Anti-Drug Directorate detained him at his home in Ungheni after about a month of surveillance: police say he collected drugs in bulk, portioned them in a rented flat in Chișinău and hid them around the city for a shop that sells on Telegram. Police announced the value of the goods — over 50,000 lei — but not the quantity in grams, the one figure that decides whether the sentence starts at 2 years or at 7. He is the second 18-year-old announced in twelve days with exactly the same pattern, and the Criminal Code shows why this link in the chain is sought at precisely this age.

Ion Calmis·13 July 2026· Explainer