Antwerp police arrested a minor suspected of drug offences again on Saturday in Borgerhout, after catching him dealing only a few months earlier.[1][2] In the early evening, officers spotted two youths hanging around an apartment building on Plantin en Moretuslei, who went briefly inside and came back outside shortly afterwards.[1][3][4][2] When the two noticed the police, one of them immediately fled from the scene.[1][2] Officers arrested the remaining minor after he resisted heavily before they managed to bring him under control.[1][3][4][2]

A check of the minor’s bag found 40 grams of cannabis and 1,765 euros in cash.[1][5][4][2] The other 20-year-old youth accompanying him had nothing suspicious on him and, according to police, had accompanied the dealer.[1][3][4][2]

Police had already caught the boy selling narcotics a few months before this Saturday check.[1][2] Antwerp police spokesperson Wouter Bruyns said these new acts breached the conditions previously imposed on the boy.[1][5][4][2]