Overview
- Organized-crime investigators directed early-morning searches in Herdecke and Kamen with SEK support, arresting two men aged 42 and 47 and a 40-year-old woman on suspicion of dealing narcotics in not insignificant quantities.
- Officers seized multiple data carriers and mobile phones during the searches, and a heavily damaged entrance was later secured by the Federal Agency for Technical Relief with a replacement door.
- The three detainees were to appear before a magistrate on Thursday, and police said the investigation continues with operational details withheld to protect the probe.
- Local media reported the use of an explosive breaching device and the seizure of two cars and a motorcycle, while police declined to identify the drugs reportedly found.
- In a separate Cologne action on Wednesday afternoon, officers arrested a 26-year-old suspected heroin dealer, seized about 180 grams of heroin and roughly €40,000 in cash, and detained a 34-year-old who was wanted for drug offenses.