Three held in Ostalbkreis raids that found cocaine, weapons and cannabis
Police arrested three people aged 20 to 27 in raids across the Ostalbkreis, Böbingen an der Rems, Mögglingen, Schwäbisch Gmünd and Kirchheim unter Teck over suspected cocaine trafficking. Officers seized about 1.5 kilograms of cocaine and an unquantified amount of cannabis, weapons, ammunition and a five-figure cash sum, and all three were remanded in custody.
Criminal police officers in the Ostalbkreis arrested three suspected drug
dealers on Thursday, 5 November 2026, with the support of special units.[1]The three taken into preliminary custody were a 23-year-old Albanian national, a
27-year-old German-Russian national and a 20-year-old Albanian national.[1]They are held on suspicion of unauthorised trafficking in narcotics in a not
insignificant quantity.[2]On Friday they were brought before a remand judge
at the request of the Ellwangen public prosecutor’s office, who issued the
arrest warrants, and they were then taken to prisons.[1]
Officers searched several buildings and rooms in Aalen, Böbingen an der Rems,
Mögglingen and Schwäbisch Gmünd, all in the Ostalbkreis, and in Kirchheim unter
Teck in the Esslingen district.[1]The searches turned up about 1.5 kilograms
of cocaine, cannabis and a five-figure sum of cash in euros.[1]Officers also
confiscated various stabbing and blank-firing weapons, ammunition and further
evidence.[1]
The first indications of the alleged crimes had emerged in October 2025, and the
suspicion hardened during the investigation.[2]
The Stuttgart regional council area, where the searched towns lie, covers the
Ostalbkreis and the Esslingen district.[3]
The investigation by the Aalen criminal investigation department and the public
prosecutor’s office in Ellwangen, the authority responsible for the Ostalbkreis,
is continuing.[1]
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The cannabis is mentioned without any weight or plant count, so no cannabis quantity is recorded and only the named product is listed.
No street value was published for any of the substances.
The 1.5 kilograms of cocaine are cocaine, not cannabis, and are quoted only for context; no cash figure is given beyond a five-figure euro sum.
The reports do not say in which of the searched buildings the cannabis was found, nor how it was stored or packed.
The suspects are identified only by age and nationality, and no pleas or court outcome beyond remand in custody were reported.
The dpa text published by the Schwarzwälder Bote, the Badische Zeitung and the Schwäbische Zeitung reproduces one police and prosecutor statement, so the accounts are not independent of each other.
The photograph published with the reports is credited to a dpa photographer and captioned as weapons and cocaine seized in a raid in Aalen, but it could not be confirmed that it shows this operation's seizure rather than a symbol picture.
The raids are reported across several Ostalbkreis municipalities and Kirchheim unter Teck, so the place is given as Aalen, where the reports are datelined and the investigation is based.
The text gives a weight ("1.5 kilograms") but the figures have no kg_seized; check whether it belongs there.
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