Police from Upper Austria and the Czech Republic have been able to track down several drug couriers smuggling narcotics across the border. A 27-year-old Czech woman was particularly brazen: she allegedly took her seven-year-old son with her as a cover on some of her smuggling trips.
Police have now announced that a 29-year-old from South Bohemia has been identified as the main player in the international drug trade. According to the investigation’s findings, he used business relationships in his car repair shop to sell drugs to couriers and dealers in Upper Austria.
Caught dealing
The investigation service of the Urfahr-Environment district police command found the first indications that the workshop could be a transfer point in the spring of 2022. At that time, a night police patrol checked a suspicious vehicle in a commuter parking lot in Bad Leonfelden. And look: during the check, a 21-year-old Croat from Bad Leonfelden was caught red-handed selling drugs in the car. The investigators seized 70 grams of cannabis.
It subsequently emerged that the 21-year-old had made a total of sixteen drug smuggling trips from the Czech Republic to Bad Leonfelden. The young man confessed and admitted that he had purchased the marijuana in the Czech car repair shop in question.
Son (7) as camouflage
In December 2022, the officers received the next blow: during a vehicle check, police officers found drugs on a 27-year-old Czech woman. The investigation showed that there were smuggling trips involving a total quantity of 1.8 kilograms of cannabis and 130 grams of crystal meth. On some of her trips, the woman is said to have taken her son (7) with her in disguise so that she would not be smuggled. recognized as a courier during inspections. The 27-year-old also made a full confession and got her medication from the car repair shop.
50-year-old as a possible smuggler
A Gambian (50) who is said to have also done shopping at the Czech car garage in the summer of 2022 has not confessed. The police assume that 400 grams of marijuana is believed to have been smuggled across the border to Austria by the 50-year-old. He was reported.
Source: Krone
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