Overview
- Police seized cocaine, pharmaceuticals, various weapons and cash during coordinated searches of multiple prisons and residential addresses.
- Kriminalpolizei Friedrichshafen launched the probe in spring following tips about drug dealing by inmates at JVA Ravensburg.
- The operation drew in the Ulm, Heidelberg and Karlsruhe police presidiums, the Bereitschaftspolizei and the Neu-Ulm criminal police.
- Investigators identified four primary suspects inside prisons and a 29-year-old woman accused of assisting from outside, with a fifth warrant suspended under conditions.
- Authorities have declined to disclose how many prisons were searched or where they are located, citing the ongoing investigation.