Overview

• Officers intervened on August 26 during a planned handover in a Schwabach parking lot.
• The 17-year-old suspect was carrying a ready-to-use firearm when detained.
• More than 1.5 kilograms of crystal meth were secured during the operation.
• The SEK led the arrests with support from plainclothes units in Schwabach and Erlangen, the Erlangen deployment unit, and Nürnberg criminal police.
• A judge ordered pretrial detention on trafficking-in-non-negligible-amounts charges, and searches of both homes produced further evidence including a small additional quantity of crystal at the 17-year-old’s residence.