The accused 52-year-old from Lower Austria filled the cut-off balls with cannabis resin and threw them over the wall of Hirtenberg prison (Lower Austria). He wanted to deliver to a “friend”. But the plan failed.
A few weeks ago, a young man was in the Vienna Regional Court who wanted to free his partner from prison in St. Pölten by throwing a rope tied to his car over the prison wall and then driving away. The prisoner reached the wall, but then the rope broke. Because of an equally creative action, a drug dealer was in court in the “Landl” on Monday.
According to the Viennese public prosecutor, the 52-year-old from Lower Austria was dealing in a wide range of addictive substances: cocaine, amphetamine, THC and cannabis. He apparently also wanted to supply the prisoners at Hirtenberg prison with the latter. “It was a false act of friendship,” his lawyer Christian Werner explained during the trial.
Explosive content: 106 grams of cannabis resin
“And a stupid one too,” adds his well-known client, who has already been convicted of drug offences: “I helped finance my addiction through the sales.”
How did he get the tennis balls over the meter-high prison wall? “He’s not the ultimate athlete. That’s why he used a catapult for dog play balls,” says Werner.
The grams of cannabis resin did not reach the recipient; the manipulated tennis balls were discovered by prison guards. The judge imposes a lenient sentence on the man from Deutsch Wagram, who wants to undergo therapy after his release: 16 months in prison, legally not binding.
Source: Krone
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