The dealer is taken away by the police Photo: Spreepicture
By Dirk Böttger, Katharina Metag and Maren Wittge
Have the police caught a big fish here?
On Sunday evening around 8:30 p.m., civil officers wanted to check a black VW. The driver first stopped on the Beusselbrücke, opened the door and jumped out of the vehicle with a large bag.
Then the man ran to the bridge railing and jumped into the water. Not without reason, as it turned out: according to the police, there was a “not inconsiderable amount” of hashish in the bag.
The fire brigade came with a large contingent, including divers. That’s how the police fished the courier and the drugs out of the water. The man was arrested on the spot and taken to a detention center.
The Berlin police are fishing for the drugs from the boat Photo: Spreepicture
Whether he is a small or a big fish in the drug business is the subject of ongoing investigations.