Bad Camberg/ Groß Gerau/ Büttelborn/ Frankfurt am Main – Customs and police officials have caught a big fish. In addition to 67 kilograms of amphetamine, firearms, cutting and stabbing weapons were also seized. The Dutch courier driver was arrested, as were three men behind the attack.
First, employees of the traffic control unit - KEV - of the main customs office in Giessen checked a Dutch car in the midday hours of October 4th, 2017 at the Bad Camberg service area (A3, southbound direction). They discovered 67 kilograms of amphetamine in the 56-year-old Dutchman's vehicle.
To further clarify the case, the Joint Drug Investigation Group - GER - of the Frankfurt Customs Investigation Office and the Hessian State Criminal Police Office took over the further investigation. The suspected transfer location of the drug was later determined to be in the Groß-Gerau area. The investigators took action here in the early evening and arrested two Germans aged 37 (living in Groß-Gerau) and 47 (living in Büttelborn).
The subsequent investigation led the investigators to the trail of the alleged client of the drug deal. This is an “old acquaintance”, a 32-year-old German from Büttelborn. On the orders of the Darmstadt public prosecutor's office, officers from the Frankfurt police headquarters arrested the man in his apartment.
During the subsequent search, two pistols, one loaded with a total of five rounds of ammunition, an air pistol, a weapon part, six cutting and stabbing weapons and two hand grenades, which subsequently turned out to be dummies, were seized. At the request of the public prosecutor, the district courts in Limburg (courier) and Darmstadt (backers) ordered all four accused to be in pre-trial detention on October 5, 2017.
“This success in the investigation is thanks to the excellent cooperation between the public prosecutor’s office, customs authorities and the police. “We have succeeded in an exemplary manner in our goal of not only removing drugs from the market, but above all also removing those behind them from circulation,”
said Hans-Jürgen Schmidt, spokesman for the Frankfurt am Main customs investigation office.
Source: Customs Investigation Office Frankfurt am Main
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