Overview

• Raids in Leipzig, the Erzgebirgskreis and sites in North Rhine-Westphalia in recent days disrupted the operation.
• More than 200 officers, including special units and dogs, seized narcotics, communications devices, weapons and several illegal marijuana grow operations.
• Authorities link the ring to sales exceeding 500 kilograms of cannabis and roughly one kilogram of cocaine.
• According to investigators, drugs were centrally packaged in Leipzig, sent in small pooled parcels to North Rhine-Westphalia and then dispatched to customers.
• Four suspects were detained on preissued warrants in Leipzig, Kreis Lippe and the Arnsberg region, with two more warrants requested after the searches as the Bavarian-led probe continues.