Thousands of Pills Seized in Alblasserdam Raid, Suspects Held in Separate Fraud Arrests

Prosecutors say the search followed interception of a postal package, and investigators are tracing where the seized pills came from and were headed.

Overview

Police intercepted a postal parcel bound for a Vroegestraat address that contained 312 amphetamine pills and then searched the home, where they discovered roughly 2,500 more illicit pills.
A 31-year-old woman from Alblasserdam and her partner were arrested after the search and remain in pretrial detention as prosecutors investigate the drug-trafficking-by-post link.
Officers stopped a fleeing car in Culemborg and arrested a minor from Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht and a 19-year-old from Papendrecht on suspicion of a 'babbeltruc', recovering many of the elderly victim’s belongings.
Separately, a 15-year-old from Schiedam is in custody on suspicion of 17 bank helpdesk frauds that reportedly yielded about €30,000 in stolen goods and cash; he will be brought before the examining judge.
Authorities say the cases show active monitoring of postal channels and common fraud methods where suspects pose as officials, and investigators warn more arrests or prosecutions may follow as traces of the pills and illicit transfers are pursued.