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Augsburg Police Hit Suspected Drug Ring With Multi-Region Raids, 17 Held

Months of narcotics investigations culminated in coordinated searches across Bavaria and Hesse.

Overview

  • Officers executed more than 30 searches in Augsburg, Munich, Lower Bavaria and Hesse, detaining 17 suspects aged 19 to 49.
  • All 17 were brought before an examining magistrate who issued arrest warrants, and they are now in pretrial detention in separate prisons.
  • Police report seizing several kilograms of cocaine, significant quantities of marijuana, other narcotics, large sums of cash and unspecified dangerous items.
  • The operation followed extensive work by the Augsburg criminal police narcotics unit and deployed support from Bereitschaftspolizei for the planned action.
  • An earlier search at a brothel on Riedinger Straße led to four short-term detentions without remand, and investigators say the ongoing case centers on suspected drug dealing as they withhold further details.