Police have detained five drug dealers in Ponichala settlement of Tbilisi and in Sartichala Gardabani municipality, Mamuka Chelidze, Director of the Central Criminal Police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, said at a briefing on Thursday.

He said that police have detained : D.M. (DoB 1983), A.E. (DoB 1981), , P.T. (DoB 1978) , G.A. (DoB 1981) and A.I. (DoB 1982) and seized narcotic drugs in particularly large amount – 11 packages of heroin and GEL 20, 970 as physical evidence.

The detainees have been charged with selling of narcotic drugs illegally and face from 6 to 11 years of imprisonment.