Overview
- Hannover customs officers stopped a Belgian-registered car on the A2 near Peine on January 5 and uncovered ten vacuum‑sealed packages totaling more than 22 kilograms of hashish.
- Officials estimate the street value of the seized hashish at about €220,000, with the drugs hidden under foot mats and within the trunk’s interior lining.
- The 48-year-old driver tried to flee on foot but was quickly caught in the snow, was arrested on the spot, and is now in pretrial detention.
- The Zollfahndungsamt Hannover is conducting further investigations on behalf of the Hildesheim public prosecutor’s office following the Peine seizure.
- In a separate case published January 12, Münster customs reported a December 29 stop of two Germans returning from the Netherlands where a search with a drug dog found 9 g of cocaine and 15.4 g of heroin hidden between a passenger’s buttocks, and a nearby plastic bag tested positive as a cutting agent; criminal proceedings were initiated and the men were allowed to continue their journey after measures.