The 39-year-old Assenaar does not have to go back into the cell for setting up a drug lab in his home in Bovensmilde. The lab was discovered last November during a study of hemp plantations.
The man is guilty of setting up a drug lab, but a return to the cell will only cross the positive turn in the life of the Assenaar, the judge thinks. The man was sentenced to 288 days in prison, of which 180 days are conditional. He spent 108 days in custody. In addition, he must perform a 240 -hour community service.
A 31-year-old co-suspect from Assen has been acquitted for his share. He had been demanded for eight months. The judge finds it not demonstrably that the 31-year-old has had a role in setting up the lab. A certain ‘Sam’ would be behind the whole event from the telephone data. There have been suspicions from those conversations that this suspect could be ‘Sam’.
The judge sees insufficiently ‘significant’ contribution to be able to condemn the youngest Assenaar. The Public Prosecution Service was convinced that the sleeping man in a photo, in the phone of the oldest suspect, was the younger suspect. The judge does not have that conviction. The many fingerprints of the suspect in that house can be explained because he regularly ‘chilling’.