Overview
- Officers stopped a Belgian-registered car on January 5 on the A2 toward Berlin and detained the 48-year-old driver.
- Ten vacuum-sealed packages hidden under floor mats and inside the trunk lining totaled more than 22 kilograms of hashish.
- The haul carries an estimated street value of about €220,000, according to officials.
- After the drugs were found, the suspect tried to flee on foot but was quickly caught in the snow and arrested at the scene.
- In a separate case now disclosed by Münster customs, a late-December stop found 9 grams of cocaine and 15.4 grams of heroin concealed on a traveler, plus a confirmed cutting agent, leading to criminal proceedings.