Overview
- Police say a 27-year-old from Amersfoort, already held for a New Year’s Eve car theft, is now linked to an attempted scooter theft and an earlier assault in the city.
- Officers intercepted a van on the A1 near Amersfoort carrying 486 nitrous-oxide cylinders totaling about 972 kilograms and arrested a 19-year-old Amsterdam driver; the gas was seized for destruction.
- After a package was thrown over the fence at Detention Center Rotterdam, a chase through Rotterdam and Schiedam led to three arrests, with two people released and the driver still detained; the package contained a phone and charger and one suspect remains at large.
- Separate overnight explosions damaged properties in Spijkenisse’s Citroengaard and at a tenth-floor apartment on Kromme Hagen in Rotterdam-IJsselmonde, with no injuries reported and causes still unknown.
- In Ermelo, police cordoned De Roerdompstraat as EOD specialists responded to a report of suspected illegal fireworks, with authorities yet to confirm the findings.