Seven kilos of cocaine

Dealer led police to huge drug bunker

Huge quantities of cocaine and cannabis were seized in the apartment in Favoriten.(Bild: SCHUSTER Mattias (LPD-W-L1-1), Krone KREATIV)

It is thanks to good investigations and a bit of coincidence that the Vienna police discovered two huge drug stashes.

For some time, the criminalists of the Vienna State Criminal Police Office, Southern Branch, had been keeping a 45-year-old Slovenian under observation. The officers suspected that the suspect might be dealing drugs. On August 21, it turned out that they were right in their suspicions. When he handed over drugs to two Serbs (aged 38 and 52) on the Wiedner Gürtel, the handcuffs clicked for the trio.

Bunker discovered
While the Slovenian only had 30 grams of cocaine on him, the police found 7.2 kilograms of cocaine and 69.2 kilograms of marijuana as well as 1020 euros in cash in several apartments that were obviously used as bunkers for street sales. The three suspected drug dealers are still under investigation.

In the further course of the official action, around 7.2 kilograms of suspected cocaine and 69.2 kilograms of suspected marijuana were seized.

Revierinspektor Mattias Schuster, Pressesprecher der LPD Wien

On Tuesday night, Inspector Zufall once again directed a police operation. Officers were called to a courtyard in Favoriten's Leibnizgasse due to noise disturbances. On site, two Algerians (27 and 30 years old) were stowing cannabis, wrapped in aluminum foil, from a concrete tub into a backpack. Both were arrested and charged, the 27-year-old is in the country illegally and was taken into custody pending deportation.