The police pulled a so-called coke taxi out of service in Berlin-Friedrichshain and confiscated a small amount of drugs.
Patrol officers on Wednesday evening on Richard-Sorge-Strasse suspected that drugs were being traded in the car, the police said on Thursday. Civil investigators checked the 40-year-old suspected buyer after he got out of the car and found two test tubes with him, probably with cocaine in them.
According to the information, the police officers then checked the 48-year-old driver and his car. The investigators secured around 20 laboratory vessels filled with white powder, cash in a lower four-digit amount, a forbidden knife, mobile phones, an apartment key and a key to another car. Around ten test tubes filled with white powder were discovered in the second car.
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The apartment and a restaurant were also searched. However, nothing was found there. The alleged drug dealer was listed as the owner of the restaurant. The apartment belonged to someone else. The investigations are ongoing.
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