The Public Prosecution Service demanded prison sentences for up to six years against three suspects who would have been involved in a drug lab on Boslaan in Emmen.
It concerns two men aged 33 and 36 from Emmen and a 37-year-old man from Poland. The session was partly treated in terms of content, but it was cut down due to a wrong planning. At that session the Pole was still missing, but now he appeared in court in Assen. He was previously stuck for involvement in another crime, but was released on conditions. He is now stuck again.
The Druglab in Emmen, in which a large amount of amphetamine would be produced, came to light by that crime. The Polish man shot at the home of his ex-wife in Nijmegen at the beginning of July last year and was then on the run. To find out where he stayed, the police decided to tap his phone. The officers found out that the Pole was staying in a hotel in Emmen. There would also be conversations about a drug lab in Emmen.
At that address they then found the man on July 10 last year. A few days earlier he had been picked up by the two co -suspects from the hotel, as can be seen on camera images. A strong ammonia air hung in the shed. A kettle was simmering in a second room. In a space behind it the Pole slept and food could also be found.
According to the police investigation, amphetamine was widely produced. The two people from Emmen said on Tuesday they had no role in the drug lab. The Pool acknowledged that at some point he had added a raw material in a boiler, but he said he did not know what that was for. “I thought alcohol or something?” He said he was only at the location because he had no sleeping place.
The 33-year-old Emmenaar appears several times on the camera images of the shed. He seems to bring things with a van or in his mother’s car. “I brought groceries for the pool,” the man said. He had also stored tools in the front part of the shed. He never came to another part of the shed. As a result, he could not know that there was a drug lab in the shed, the man said.
The OM says it can link some songs to the two people from Emmen in the tap conversations. The oldest would have arranged things and instructed the co -suspect to get and bring it.
The public prosecutor stated that the statements of the suspects were “completely unbelievable”. She spoke of “serious criminal offenses” and the great danger based on a drug lab “in the middle of a residential area.”
The highest punishment, six years in prison, demanded the OM against the 36-year-old man. According to the OM he had a determining role within the lab and gave instructions and made decisions. He would have been a user of the telephone number, with which contact was maintained with the Pool, among other things. Together with the 33-year-old fellow suspect, he would be seen in the hotel to pick up the Pole. In his home of the oldest Emmenaar, the agents also found weapons and illegal fireworks.
The Pool heard four years in prison demand. According to the OM he would work in the shed as a cook. Phone data would show that he carried out assignments there in the lab. Gloves were also found on the spot with his DNA material on it.
According to the other Emmenaar, the other Emmenaar has to go into jail for 2.5 years. He had a more supporting role by, among other things, carrying out instructions from the fellow suspect and bringing messages to the Pole.
The suspect’s lawyer with the highest punishment, the 36-year-old Emmenaar, asked for acquittal. According to him, there is no evidence to link his client to the work in the drug lab. Several people would have used the telephone number and no DNA traces or fingerprints were found from his client. “There is nothing in the file that indicates that he would be the drug lord, for which the officer apparently holds him.”