Drugs cop in western Russia busted for growing marijuana at home & planting it on innocent citizen to boost his arrest numbers

The deputy head

The deputy head of a Russian city’s drugs control department has been arrested for growing cannabis and using it to stage the arrest of an innocent man in a fake possession case. The officer was trying to improve his arrest total.

On Saturday, in the city of Velikiye Luki, the cop was arrested after being accused of planting the substance on a local resident. With a population of 100,000 people, Velikiye Luki is the second-largest city in the Pskov Region, 150km from the border with Latvia.

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