Overview
- Officers from police and customs searched 19 locations across Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in a coordinated early-morning operation.
- Investigators seized three live pistols, about 4,000 rounds of ammunition, 11 smoke and flash grenades, a silencer and 12 brass knuckles.
- Searches uncovered pallets of suspected stolen high-end car parts and electronics in a Borstorf warehouse, pointing to a broader fencing operation tied to earlier burglaries.
- The LKA identified nine male suspects aged 32 to 61, with a 43-year-old provisionally arrested and brought before a judge while six others were processed and released.
- An SEK team raided a 61-year-old’s Tonndorf apartment and found two live weapons plus ecstasy in storage, and a separate 42-year-old suspect with a loaded revolver was remanded to pre-trial detention after indications he sought to buy an assault rifle.