Overview
- German police in Wolfenbüttel found a professional but inactive facility believed to produce amphetamine-base, a precursor for millions of doses.
- At the request of German authorities, Dutch officers searched a house in Groessen, seizing illegal fireworks as specialists removed potentially hazardous materials.
- Investigators say the probe has been running since December 2024, with an earlier seizure of about 130 liters of amphetamine-base near the border estimated to yield roughly 1.5 million doses.
- In a separate weapons investigation, police arrested a second suspect after discovering more than one hundred prohibited weapons and large amounts of ammunition at a property in Uddel.
- FIOD and police in the Rotterdam area arrested two men on suspicion of drug trafficking and money laundering, seizing cash, luxury watches, a car and eight kilograms of cannabis from stash locations.