This year, police arrested over 150 narcotics users, the type of heroin growing

859 people have been arrested by police for using or selling narcotics during 2023.

Of them minors from 14 to 18 years of age have been 74 people.

Meanwhile, during the year 2024, 159 people were arrested for narcotics. Of them minors 14-18 were 10 people.

These data have been provided by Kosovo Police

Last week a Kosovo and Croatian national has been captured and arrested by Kosovo Police at the border checkpoint with Serbia in Merdar.

Police have found in the suspect 20 packs weighing over 10kg allegedly of heroin, worth about 250 thousand euros.

Kosovo police have indicated that heroin drugs that were confiscated during 2024 so far are in greater quantity than it was in 2023.

Since this year, 9494.06 pounds of heroin were seized last year, 2872.05 grams.

The kind of narcotics that's mostly captured is marijuana.

Police confiscated 601113.45 gg of marijuana in 2023 and 50876.86 gt in 2024.

In terms of hashish, law - enforcement agencies have seized 145.93 pounds in 2023 and 26.19 pounds this year.

Kosovo police seized a total of cocaine of 5466.86 kg in 2023 and 907.5 grams in 2024.

Regarding one of the most serious metadon drugs, police have confiscated 19 billion years.

1331.35 is the amount of other drugs confiscated for 2023 and 612.11 for 2024, the police's response to Front Online reported.