Tag: illegal weapons

Police arrest 37 as nationwide weapons searches continue

August 20, 2025August 19, 2025 by DFWatch staff

TBILISI, August 19 – Police across Georgia made 37 arrests arrests the last three days, for illegally purchasing, storing, or carrying firearms and ammunition. The arrests followed coordinated searches of homes, vehicles, and storage buildings, the Ministry of Internal Affairs said in a statement. Dozens of firearms of various types and large amounts of ammunition … Read more

Scores of illegal weapons seized as nationwide raids continue

August 10, 2025August 9, 2025 by DFWatch staff

TBILISI, August 9 – Police in Georgia have continued carrying out raids across the country, seizing more firearms, ammunition, and drugs, and arresting 11 people. The Interior Ministry says the operations took place over the past week in Tbilisi, Imereti, Racha-Lechkhumi, and other regions, signalling an ongoing campaign to track down illegal weapons. The new … Read more

Georgian police seize large amount of illegal weapons in nationwide raids

August 5, 2025August 3, 2025 by DFWatch staff

TBILISI, August 3 – In a sweeping two-day operation across Georgia, law enforcement authorities have confiscated a significant stockpile of illegal firearms, ammunition, and military equipment. The Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that multiple individuals have been arrested, some of whom have prior criminal records, in raids that took place in the capital Tbilisi and … Read more

Large weapons collection discovered in Tbilisi

April 30, 2014 by DFWatch staff

TBILISI, DFWatch–A Georgian citizen has voluntarily handed over a large collection of military type weapons to the police department in Tbilisi.

The impressive weapons collection included an RPG-26 anti-tank grenade launcher, four prefabricated PG-9

Saakashvili: I gave the order to create weapons cache

June 24, 2013 by DFWatch staff

TBILISI, DFWatch–President Mikheil Saakashvili says he ordered the establishment of underground weapons caches all over the country. He said, in case of renewed aggression, Georgia wouldn’t be ‘unprotected as it was in 2008.’

“There is nothing new for me in that

More surveillance material found in western Georgia

June 22, 2013 by DFWatch staff

Some of the tapes found in an underground weapons cache in Samegrelo last week. (Police.ge.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Interior Ministry in Georgia Friday announced the discovery of more weapons in an underground cache in the western Samegrelo region.

The latest find adds four more barrels to a cache discovered last week containing weapons, drugs and surveillance

Torture videos will be shown in closed screening

June 20, 2013 by DFWatch staff

weapons cache - barrels — The tapes were found along with weapons, explosives and drugs inside these plastic barrels. (Police.ge.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Interior Ministry in Georgia Thursday will hold a screening for media leaders of newly discovered videos of torture and rape, but filming will not be allowed.

A few dozen people will be shown the tapes which were discovered in a buried weapons cache

Georgia torture videos not published, nine detained

June 19, 2013 by DFWatch staff

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Interior Ministry in Georgia changed its mind about publishing videos showing torture of prisoners, but said nine persons have been detained regarding the discovery of the weapons cache where the videos were found.

Minister of Internal Affairs

Weapons cache found in western Georgia

June 17, 2013 by DFWatch staff

weapons cache samegrelo — Photo released by Georgian Interior Ministry. (Police.ge.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Interior Ministry in Georgia has discovered an underground cache in the Samegrelo region, which borders with breakaway Abkhazia.

The cache contained ammunition, explosives and explosive devices, grenades, automatic rifles and other weapons.

Large ammunition depot found in south Georgia

December 17, 2012 by DFWatch staff

weapons cache 2012-12-03 — Military police found this weapons stash in Tbilisi December 3, 2012. Now an ammunitions depot was found in southern Georgia. (Photo: Georgia's Ministry of Defense.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgian police have seized a large amount of ammunition in an abandoned house in a town in the south of the country.

According to Interior Ministry, the ammunition was hidden at an abandoned airport dormitory house in the town Akhalkalaki.