Overview
- Plainclothes border officers stopped a van near Vohenstrauß on Thursday morning and found four boxes containing more than 400 cannabis plants.
- Three Italian nationals in the vehicle were detained, and the 62-year-old driver admitted recent cannabis use and tested positive before a doctor drew a blood sample.
- Police seized the plants and barred further travel, and the driver faces a separate charge under road traffic law for drug impairment.
- Kripo Weiden took over the case and opened investigations into suspected cannabis trafficking and unlawful transit under the consumption-cannabis law.
- The detainees told police they were traveling from Milan to Prague to exhibit the plants at Cannafest Prague 2025, a claim that remains unverified.