Investigators are looking for drugs in several houses in the Offenbach district and in the Main-Kinzig district - and find them.
A bizarre scenario for the residents.
Update from Tuesday, January 17, 10:58 a.m .:
Never before has so much cash been secured in connection with drug investigations in Hesse: investigators have 6.29 million euros on Friday (January 13) with a 56-year-old in Hanau found.
The man was arrested and is in custody, police said.
The operation is directly related to the demolition of several highly professional marijuana plantations a few days ago in the Main-Kinzig district and in the Offenbach district (see below).
The investigators from customs and police are investigating the 56-year-old and other suspects in a joint investigation with the public prosecutor's office in Darmstadt on suspicion of "unauthorized gang cultivation and trading in narcotics in not small quantities".
Not only the record-breaking 6.29 million euros in cash were secured in the attic of an apartment building in Hanau.
The investigators also found jewelery and watches worth 220,000 euros, 25 kilograms of cocaine, six kilograms of marijuana and two kilograms of hashish hidden in suitcases and bags.
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The forces seized large amounts of drugs during the raid.
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After drug raids around Offenbach and Hanau: four suspects in custody
Update from Friday, January 13, 2:23 p.m .:
After the drug raid in the Offenbach district and the Main-Kinzig district on Wednesday (January 11), four men are in custody.
This was reported by the
German Press Agency (dpa)
on Friday.
Two others were conditionally released, a spokesman for the prosecutor said.
However, the 20-year-old and the 49-year-old have to report regularly to the authorities.
The 20 to 60-year-old men were caught by the drug investigators when they searched eleven houses.
During the operation, two professionally operated marijuana plantations were discovered and firearms and drugs by the kilo were seized.
Investigators suspect the men of "gang cultivation and trafficking in no small amount of cannabis".
"You really don't assume that": Residents and passers-by react in shock to a large drug raid
Update from Thursday, January 12, 4:46 p.m .:
When several police buses drove up on Wednesday afternoon (January 11) on Siemensstrasse in the Lindenbäumchen commercial area in Nidderau-Heldenbergen (Main-Kinzig-Kreis), the residents and customers of the supermarket opposite were not amazed bad.
Several masked officers from the police and customs access a commercial property.
The action is part of a large-scale drug raid in the Main-Kinzig district and in the Offenbach district.
A total of six men between the ages of 20 and 60 were arrested on suspicion of gang cultivation and trade in cannabis "in no small quantity", as the Frankfurt Customs Investigation Office announced on Thursday afternoon.
Among other things, two professionally operated marijuana plantations were excavated, reports op-online.de.
Police confiscate drugs in the Main-Kinzig district and Offenbach district
In Nidderau, investigators carried dozens of paper bags and plastic bags labeled "Cocos Mix" off the site into the evening hours on Wednesday and packed them in a truck. is searched.
The investigators also ensure evidence here, carrying boxes out of the house.
Later, when it is already dark, another container is delivered and parked on the street.
During the search and evidence securing measures, which continued on Thursday, more than 1,280 marijuana plants and other narcotics were secured in a total of eleven objects in the region.
According to the Frankfurt Customs Investigation Office, this included almost four kilograms of marijuana, more than five kilograms of amphetamine, three kilograms of hashish, 500 grams of crystal meth and 50 grams of cocaine as well as three firearms and a silencer.
In addition, a total of 8,100 euros in cash was confiscated from two perpetrators, which they had with them when they were arrested.
"Due to extensive and intensive investigations that have been conducted against the 53-year-old main suspect since December of last year, it was finally possible on Wednesday afternoon to suddenly enter two plantations that had previously been localized by special forces from the Hessian State Criminal Police Office, the Frankfurt am Main Police Headquarters and the Federal Police and arrest the suspects," investigators said.
"One of the perpetrators was arrested in his vehicle and various narcotics ready for sale and a weapon within reach were secured."
Drug raid in the Main-Kinzig district: neighbors are shocked
According to the investigative authorities, the six arrested suspects should be brought before the magistrate at the Offenbach district court on Thursday afternoon.
A neighbor returning home from work on Wednesday evening watches in disbelief the scene on his street.
"You don't think that of Nidderau," he tells a reporter from the agency 5vision.news.
“We live here in the village.
You really don't assume that something like that will be found here."
Drug raid around Offenbach and Hanau - drugs, meth and cocaine confiscated
Update from Thursday, January 12, 2:40 p.m .:
As the investigation complex of the Darmstadt public prosecutor’s office together with the “Joint Investigation Group on Drugs” of the Frankfurt Customs Investigation Office and the Hessian State Criminal Police Office are now reporting, on Wednesday, January 11, a total of six men between the ages of 20 and 60 years on suspicion of gang cultivation and trafficking of cannabis in no small quantity.
During the ongoing measures, two professionally operated marijuana plantations in the Main-Kinzig district and in the Offenbach district were dug up by the investigators from the customs investigation and the police.
Due to extensive and intensive investigations, which have been conducted against the 53-year-old main suspect since December 2022, it was possible on Wednesday afternoon to enter two previously localized plantations by special forces from the Hessian State Criminal Police Office, the Frankfurt Police Headquarters and the Federal Police and to arrest the suspects.
One of the perpetrators was arrested in his vehicle and various narcotics that were ready for sale and a weapon that was ready to hand were seized.
Raid around Offenbach and Hanau: Several drugs and money confiscated
According to the joint press release, more than 1,280 marijuana plants and other narcotics have been secured during the subsequent search and evidence securing measures in a total of eleven buildings.
These include nearly four kilograms of marijuana, more than five kilograms of amphetamine, three kilograms of hashish, 500 grams of crystal meth and 50 grams of cocaine, as well as three firearms and a silencer.
In addition, a total of 8,100 euros in cash was confiscated from two perpetrators, which they had with them when they were arrested.
The six arrested suspects are to be brought before the magistrate at the Offenbach District Court on Thursday (January 12).
Drug raid around Offenbach and Hanau - Large amounts of drugs seized
First report from Thursday, January 12, 10.40 a.m .:
Large police operation on Wednesday (January 11) around Offenbach and Hanau: Investigators from the Hessian State Criminal Police Office, customs and the public prosecutor’s offices in Darmstadt and Frankfurt carried out a large-scale drug raid in the Offenbach district and in the Main-Kinzig district.
As the customs investigation office announced when asked, several objects were searched, including in Rodgau and Nidderau.
There is a suspicion of violating the Narcotics Act.
According to reports, the Joint Investigation Group on Narcotics (GER) had a great success in the search.
The investigators are said to have seized several hundred kilos of drugs.
A spokesman for the customs investigation office did not want to confirm or deny this report on Thursday.
Nationwide, such a large drug find would be extremely rare.
Allegedly several arrests in drug raids in the Offenbach and Main-Kinzig districts
The reporters from
5VISION.NEWS,
who were present at the raid, assume that several arrests were made during the house searches.
The police have not yet confirmed this news either.
According to
5VISION.NEWS
, the operational measures lasted several hours until late in the evening.
As part of the storming of the premises, several doors were also opened by force.
According to the customs investigation office, special forces were also involved in the measures.
Further details about the operation are to be made public in the coming days.
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