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Two men with criminal records detained

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Two men with criminal records and previous sentences from Razgrad and Rouse have been detained with illegal firearms and drugs after a large-scale police operation, public service TV BNT reports.

Property connected with them in Varna, Rouse and Silistra has been searched. Two handguns with erased serial numbers and 28 rounds of ammunition were found on private property in Razgrad where one of the men lived. Packages of pills weighing 1,235 grams with a positive reaction for methamphetamine were found in the home of the other man. Money has also been found – Bulgarian Leva, US dollars and euros totaling EUR 40,000. 1,606 rounds of ammunition of various caliber, firearms, a gas gun and a metal box full of gunpowder were found during searches at other addresses in Rouse. One of the men was apprehended in Razgrad and the other – in Isperih. The prosecutor’s office is to charge them with possession of firearms and munition for which they could be sentenced to 2 to 8 years of imprisonment.



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