Resident of Karachay-Cherkessia detained for contacts with militants

The police have detained a 31-year-old resident of Karachay-Cherkessia suspected of participating in an organized criminal group. The police detained the suspect on the Cherkessk-Dombay road in Uchkurka at about midnight.

According to police information, the man had been holding an SMG in his car for several days. An AK was found in the trunk of his car. The weapons were allegedly given to him by Eziyev, a member of an extremist gang killed in Chechnya in 2009. The AK had been hidden in a cache for a long time. A few days ago the suspect retrieved it and put in his car.