Smuggling more than 114 kilos of crystal meth across the border, right in the backseat of your car. A plan that is doomed to fail, as a 34-year-old man from Tilburg also experienced. He was caught by the police on the A58 with eight shopping bags full of crystal meth in his car. The man can whistle at the value of 7 million euros. However, he did hear a 5-year prison sentence against him on Tuesday.
The man was arrested on April 9 last year on the A58 near Gilze, when he was on his way from Belgium to the Netherlands. What he didn’t know was that there was a GPS tracker under his car at the time. The car had previously come to the attention of the police during a drug investigation, after which they had placed a sounding beacon under the car.
When the police stopped the man, the officer’s eye fell on the back seat of the car. It was folded down and was full of filled big shoppers. When he checked, he found plastic containers with white crystals that looked like crystal meth. The Tilburg driver was arrested.
Accomplices from Spain and France
Further investigation revealed that he was transporting 114 kilos of methamphetamine, with a street value of approximately 7 million euros. Two of the suspect’s telephones also showed that he had been communicating via Signal for a long time about the production and transport of crystal meth.
The investigation also identified two co-suspects, two brothers. The Nissan was registered to one of them and DNA from both brothers was found on the shopping bags. The men were arrested in France and Spain and are both suspected of involvement.
The Public Prosecution Service demanded a five-year prison sentence against the Tilburg citizen in the court in Zwolle on Tuesday. The judge will determine his final sentence on January 28. The two brothers’ trial is in May.
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