Saturday, January 10, 2026

Georgia indicts five in major drug trafficking case

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Prosecutor’s Office has charged five individuals with illegal possession and distribution of large and especially large quantities of narcotics, including heroin, cocaine, buprenorphine, and alpha-PVP. The charges follow a Ministry of Internal Affairs investigation, which uncovered and seized the drugs during coordinated operations. The accused face charges under multiple articles of Georgia’s criminal … Read more

Georgian shepherd found guilty of murdering American couple and their 4-year-old son

TBILISI, DFWatch–A 19-year-old shepherd from Georgia was found guilty on Monday of savagely killing an American couple and their 4 year old son in July, 2018. Apart of homicide of three people, Malkhaz Kobauri was also found guilty of other crimes, including rape. He now faces a life sentence in jail. The cold-blooded murder of … Read more

19 y/o shepherd charged with murdering American family of three in Dusheti

The murder victims Lora (42), Caleb (4) and Ryan Smith (43).

TBILISI, DFWatch–A 19 year old shepherd from Georgia’s mountain region Dusheti was charged Monday with the cold blooded murder of an American family of three.

The shepherd, whose identity is being withheld by authorities, has confessed to the killing of Ryan Smith, 43, an entrepreneur,

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Two women arrested, suspected of stabbing Georgian singer

Tamta Janjgava (left) and Natia Topuria. (Facebook.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Police in Georgia have arrested two young women implicated in the near fatal stabbing of a popular crooner.

Irakli Nozadze, nicknamed ‘Picasso’, was in a critical condition after major loss of blood after being stabbed multiple times in the chest and neck on Monday.

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Gang fight at Tbilisi school leaves two 16 year old boys dead

FlowersTBILISI, DFWatch–Crowds gathered outside a school in the center of Tbilisi Sunday evening to pay tribute to two teenage boys who were brutally murdered by their peers two days earlier.

School students and teachers, as well as relatives of the victims,

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Gunman wounds four ahead of Georgia's local elections

Georgian Dream's party office in Kyzilajlo near Marneuli
People gathered outside the hospical in Marneuli, where the wounded Georgian Dream members were being treated. (1tv.ge.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A gunman opened fire at a local office of Georgia’s ruling party Thursday night, wounding four people, two days before nationwide local elections that will gage the government’s hold on power.

The attack, which wounded a candidate for Georgian Dream,

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Georgian priest sentenced to nine years in prison for murder attempt

TBILISI, DFWatch–A Tbilisi court on Tuesday sentenced a high ranking cleric to nine years in prison for trying to kill the patriarch’s personal secretary with poison. The case has sent shock waves through Georgian society and revealed divisions within one

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State auditor shown holding pistol in bar in new online video

Lasha Tordia pointing a pistol at the staff of P.A.M. Club in Tbilisi.
Lasha Tordia (far left) apparently brandishing a pistol at PAM Club last December. 

TBILISI, DFWatch–A new video of a public auditor pointing a pistol in a bar last December further undermined his claim that a recent fight with an ex-prosecutor was corruption related.

The video surfaced on the Internet on Wednesday, and shows state auditor Lasha Tordia

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