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Prison sentence for boss of "Coke Taxi" - tears in the courtroom

2022-10-05T17:02:25.746Z


Prison sentence for boss of "Coke Taxi" - tears in the courtroom Created: 05/10/2022, 18:39 Justitia can be seen on a pane at the entrance to the Higher Regional Court. © Rolf Vennenbernd/dpa/symbol picture Ordered by cellphone. Then the "coke taxi" delivered cocaine, amphetamines and cannabis free of charge. The flourishing drug trade is now costing five men dearly, despite their confession. T


Prison sentence for boss of "Coke Taxi" - tears in the courtroom

Created: 05/10/2022, 18:39

Justitia can be seen on a pane at the entrance to the Higher Regional Court.

© Rolf Vennenbernd/dpa/symbol picture

Ordered by cellphone.

Then the "coke taxi" delivered cocaine, amphetamines and cannabis free of charge.

The flourishing drug trade is now costing five men dearly, despite their confession.

The boss sobbed.

Kiel – The boss of a drug gang has to go to prison for six years for a drug delivery service he organized by “coke taxi”.

This was announced by the presiding judge Carsten Tepp on Wednesday at the district court in Kiel.

The court imposed prison sentences of three years and ten months, three years and a suspended sentence of one year and ten months on three of the other accused of illicit drug trafficking.

The 26-year-old main defendant took the verdict with a burst of tears.

He had become a father while in custody.

His wife, who was sitting in the courtroom when the verdict was pronounced, also cried when the court refused the requested temporary suspension of the arrest warrant - because of the continued risk of absconding.

The prosecutor was satisfied with the verdict.

He had applied for six and a half years for the 26-year-old.

The defense attorney, who asked for a sentence of less than six years, is considering a prison appeal.

Like the prosecution, the criminal court assumed that the 26-year-old, as head of the drug gang, bought cocaine, amphetamines, cannabis and ecstasy in Hamburg from April to December 2021 and organized drug trafficking in the Segeberg district by "coke taxi".

The customers' orders were received via WhatsApp on their mobile phones, and the goods were delivered free of charge.

The 26-year-old is said to have a profit of around 180,000 euros.

According to the public prosecutor, the amount of drugs charged in the judgment against the main defendant was around 900 grams of cocaine, eight kilograms of marijuana, three kilograms of amphetamines and 400 ecstasy tablets.

All the men had confessed comprehensively.

In order to mitigate the sentence, the court also took into account, among other things, the difficult family circumstances of the main depressive defendant and the severe blows of fate suffered by the co-defendants, such as unjustified imprisonment.

The court and public prosecutor Florian Müller-Gabriel expressed their astonishment at the judgment of the Hamburg district court the day before.

The main suspect, also a 26-year-old, was sentenced to four years in prison.

He bought a kilo of cocaine a week between April 2020 and February 2022 and also organized the sale via "coke taxis".

His profit was in the millions.

dpa

Source: merkur

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