Overview
- In Essen, plainclothes officers arrested a 30-year-old suspect at the main station after watching a handoff, then found more than six kilograms of cocaine in his home.
- Officers also recovered almost €10,000 in small bills, 21 sale-sized packets on him, and two knives, which point to prepared street dealing.
- The Essen suspect, an Albanian national without a fixed address in Germany, was brought before a magistrate and is now in custody.
- In Kassel, investigators executed three judge-approved searches tied to a restaurant and seized cocaine valued at about €30,000 plus roughly €54,000 in suspected drug money.
- Police in Kassel detained a 65-year-old man and a 28-year-old woman who run the venue, with the older suspect due before a magistrate and the younger released, and they are checking seized perfumes and handbags for theft links.