Two held after 800 g of hash and illegal fireworks found in Dinteloord garage
Police searching a garage box on the De Vriesstraat in Dinteloord found more than 750 kilograms of illegal fireworks together with just over 800 grams of hash and just over 90 grams of hemp. A 25-year-old man from Dinteloord was arrested on 4 November 2026 and a 42-year-old man from Steenbergen on 6 November, and police also seized pills, an alarm pistol, jewellery and a car.
🇳🇱 De Vriesstraat, Dinteloord, Steenbergen, North Brabant · Netherlands
Police entered a garage box on the De Vriesstraat in Dinteloord on the evening
of Wednesday 4 November 2026 and found a large quantity of heavy illegal
fireworks.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]Officers arrested a 25-year-old man from Dinteloord that evening
and a 42-year-old man from Steenbergen on the evening of Friday 6 November.[1][2][4][9][10][5][6][7][8]The search followed a longer police investigation that began with a report about
the possible storage and sale of illegal fireworks.[1][4][9][6][8]
Alongside the fireworks, officers found just over 90 grams of hemp and just over
800 grams of hash in the garage box.[1][2][3][4][9][10][5][7][8]Police also seized about 250 pills, an
alarm pistol, expensive jewellery and a car.[1][2][3][4][10][5][7][8]In total more than 750
kilograms of fireworks were taken away, including almost 10,000 cobras, boxes of
lawinepijlen (heavy rockets) and shells weighing several kilograms each;
specialists removed them safely.[1][4][8]
Police said the fireworks held large amounts of explosive flash powder and that
an explosion could set off a mass explosion affecting whole streets and
residential districts.[1][3][8]Police linked the case to their drive against
illegal fireworks ahead of New Year; since 1 August 2026 possessing, buying and
setting off fireworks is banned in the Netherlands.[1][8]
Mayor Ruud van den Belt of Steenbergen called the find very worrying and said the municipality had escaped with a fright.[10]
NOS reported that the find was in a garage box in a residential neighbourhood of Dinteloord, a village in North Brabant, without naming the street.[9]
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The quantities are given as more than 90 grams of hemp and more than 800 grams of hash, not exact weights, so the cannabis total of about 891 grams is approximate.
No street value for the hash or hemp was published, and the reports do not say which charges the two men face or whether they remain in custody.
The garage box is identified only by street; the pin is for Dinteloord.
The 250 pills are not counted as cannabis because the reports do not say what they contain.
Some accounts give the hemp and hash as 90 grams and 800 grams without the police statement's 'just over', so the already approximate cannabis total is unaffected.
NOS states 750 kilograms of fireworks without the 'more than' in the police statement, and does not name the street or give exact arrest dates beyond Wednesday and Friday.
One local reprint describes the drugs only as drugs, without naming hash or hemp or giving weights.
A cannabis grow with about 70 plants was dismantled on 11 November 2026 in a second-floor apartment at Aan de Vaart in Zaandam. The plants were shredded on site and growing equipment was removed, and no one was arrested.
Police arrested a driver at the Spottersweg plane-watching spot near Eindhoven Airport on Sunday evening after smelling a strong cannabis odour from the car and a drug test showed cannabis and cocaine use. The car, which was not correctly registered, was seized and an official report is being drawn up for driving under the influence.
Police in Wormerveer seized almost 9,800 ready-made joints from a car and a house after an anonymous tip, arresting one suspect. The cannabis was confiscated, the suspect was later released, and the investigation continues.
A van carrying about 3,000 kg of hashish crashed on a highway outside Avenhorn on 2 March 2007, scattering the load across the road. The driver and a passenger fled, and Dutch authorities later incinerated the hashish.
