Overview

• Plainclothes officers in Hamburg-Tonndorf stopped six men and found €15,000 in cash, shopping bags, and a vacuum sealer in a car.
• Follow-up surveillance led to a Martensallee apartment where a 28-year-old carried two boxes containing roughly 19 kg of marijuana and about 500 g of cocaine, which police seized.
• Seven men were initially detained in Hamburg; a 22-year-old received a detention order, while the 28-year-old and others were released due to a lack of pretrial detention grounds.
• Hamburg’s drug unit LKA 62 has taken over the case, with inquiries continuing.
• In Kassel, police suspect a 24-year-old of active dealing after seizing nearly 2 kg of cannabis and about €4,000, and finding cannabis on visitors including a 15-year-old; the suspect was released as investigations proceed into commercial dealing and supplying minors.