Burgenland police smash drug ring
Burgenland narcotics investigators arrested three men on Thursday in Vienna and Mistelbach in Lower Austria that are believed to have grown and sold cannabis in the past eight months worth €170,000.
They first arrested a 45-year-old Viennese man for drug dealing, who then fingered a 36-year-old accomplice, who in turn turned in a 47-year-old man from Lower Austria as a grower, police said on Friday. Through drug users, investigators were able to track down the first suspect. After executing a search warrant at the home of 45-year-old, the officers found 1.45 kilograms of dried cannabis flowers, and more than €5,000 in cash, reported the National Police Directorate of Burgenland. In addition, the suspected drug traffickers had a prohibited weapon in the form of a baton. When the police went to the apartment of his 36-year-old alleged accomplice, they discovered in the apartment around 2,000 pieces of rifle ammunition, a pistol, a rifle with silencer and €33,000. The second suspect then revealed the named of a third accomplice. In the house of the 47-year-old Lower Austrian man investigators discovered in the basement a growing facility with 77 cannabis plants. The prosecution has asked a judge to remand all three suspects in custody while a case is prepared.
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They first arrested a 45-year-old Viennese man for drug dealing, who then fingered a 36-year-old accomplice, who in turn turned in a 47-year-old man from Lower Austria as a grower, police said on Friday.
Through drug users, investigators were able to track down the first suspect. After executing a search warrant at the home of 45-year-old, the officers found 1.45 kilograms of dried cannabis flowers, and more than €5,000 in cash, reported the National Police Directorate of Burgenland.
In addition, the suspected drug traffickers had a prohibited weapon in the form of a baton.
When the police went to the apartment of his 36-year-old alleged accomplice, they discovered in the apartment around 2,000 pieces of rifle ammunition, a pistol, a rifle with silencer and €33,000.
The second suspect then revealed the named of a third accomplice. In the house of the 47-year-old Lower Austrian man investigators discovered in the basement a growing facility with 77 cannabis plants.
The prosecution has asked a judge to remand all three suspects in custody while a case is prepared.
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