Overview
- At a station on Rotterdamweg in Almere, a man threatened a clerk with a weapon, took goods, and fled on a bicycle toward Delftstraat as officers called for witnesses and camera footage.
- Another station on Kort Ambachtlaan in Zwijndrecht was held up, employees were unhurt, and police issued a Burgernet alert, a local system that pushes suspect details to residents, with the search still active.
- An anti-drug action in Capelle aan den IJssel’s Schenkel area led to three arrests and large seizures that included nearly 9 kilograms of soft drugs, hard drugs, weapons, and cash, and the city shut the implicated home.
- A gas leak at Nouryon’s Europoort plant involved a flammable spray-can propellant that firefighters said is non-toxic, and crews shut the unit, used water screens and drones, and flared the gas with no injuries reported.
- In related enforcement, five men were arrested in Rotterdam in a drug-production probe earlier in the week, and a reported break-in at an old Feijenoord police station prompted a sweep with a sniffer dog that found no one.