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Drug Agency Worker Caught Growing Dope

By The Moscow Times

An employee of the Federal Drug Control Service faces eight years in prison for growing marijuana at his dacha, prosecutors said Tuesday.

The man, a driver for a logistics department at the agency, as well as an accomplice cultivated the drug for "personal use" at the Leningrad region residence, prosecutors said in a statement.

Last month, drug control agents confiscated "25 buckets" of marijuana from the home in the town of Babino-2, southeast of St. Petersburg, the statement said.

The driver's name was not disclosed, and authorities did not say how his colleagues found out about the crop.

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