‘Pablo Icecobar’, the Mexican main suspect in a controversial case involving crystal meth labs, will serve sixteen years in prison, according to the Public Prosecution Service. The man, together with a Dutchman, had a directing and coordinating role in the criminal organizations behind several drug labs, including the one in Willemsoord, the Public Prosecution Service believes. Twelve years in prison have been demanded against the Dutch main suspect.
Research by the National Criminal Investigation Department shows that Pablo-Icecobar supplies foreign ‘cooks’ for drug labs of Dutch criminal organizations. It can be concluded from the chats that he is partly responsible for four drug labs. The most famous is the drug boat or the narco barco who was found in Moerdijk in May 2019, but he is also behind labs that are being dismantled in Achter-Drempt, Hauwert and therefore in Willemsoord, just across the Drents-Overijssel border near Wilhelminaoord and Frederiksoord.
Pablo-Icecobar is one of the leaders of the criminal organization that has several labs at the same time in 2020 and 2021. It is also established that he exported more than 30 kilos of methamphetamine to Germany.
In September 2021, ‘Pablo’ is arrested and extradited to the Netherlands. The Public Prosecution Service is today demanding the highest prison sentence against him: sixteen years.
It is taken into account that he has already been sentenced to 9 years in an American case for trafficking in methamphetamine. The public prosecutor of the National Public Prosecution Service: “Given the role of this suspect as leader of the criminal organization, his involvement in four labs, the export of methamphetamine to Germany and the significant previous conviction in the United States, this case is only the maximum prison sentence that the law allows us is appropriate.”
According to the Public Prosecution Service, the most important contact of ‘Pablo’ in the Netherlands is a 42-year-old man from The Hague. The Public Prosecution Service is demanding a twelve-year prison sentence against him. According to the Public Prosecution Service, he coordinated the supply of raw materials for production, the collection of waste, the purchase of the end product and all kinds of payments.
The ‘cooks’ who were caught red-handed in the labs have also now been tried in separate lawsuits. This case is about the group that controlled them. A 42-year-old Mexican who is being sentenced to 10 years is said to have taken on more and more coordinating tasks as ‘head chef’.
The other four had supporting roles. Their role in the four labs in Willemsoord, Achter-Drempt, Moerdijk and Hauwert is discussed extensively in court. The suspects themselves do not reveal much and invoke their right to remain silent.
The court will deliver its ruling on November 29.