"Spice" dealers sentenced to ten years in Volgograd
VOLGOGRAD. Jan 19 (Interfax) - The Volgograd Voroshilovsky District Court has sentenced three members of an organized criminal group that engaged in the sale of synthetic drugs to ten years in prison, the press service for the Federal Penitentiary Service's department for the Volgograd region reported on Monday.
"The Volgograd Voroshilovsky District Court found the men guilty of the charges and sentenced them to ten years in prison. They will be serving their sentences in high-security colonies," the press release says.
According to the press service, members of the criminal group rented out apartments in different districts of Volgograd, where they brought "spice." The drugs were later placed in caches, where customers took them.
The investigators seized from the suspects some 2,500 drug doses prepared for sale, telephones, SIM cards, money, laptop computers, electronic scales, and bags for packing the drugs.