Suspected dealer arrested at Echternach's e-Lake festival with 14 g marijuana
Luxembourg police arrested a suspected drug dealer at the e-Lake music festival in Echternach, finding 27 pellets of cocaine, 14 grams of marijuana and cash on him. Officers acting for the Diekirch prosecutor's office also found eight bags of marijuana on a second man who kept close to him.
🇱🇺 e-Lake festival, Echternach, Luxembourg
Arrested
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Cannabis
14 g
Agencies
Kriminalpolizei Grevenmacher, Public prosecutor's office of Diekirch
Luxembourg police arrested a suspected drug dealer at the e-Lake music festival
in Echternach in August 2012 and found cocaine and marijuana on him.[1]Officers at the festival followed a man who was repeatedly approached by young
people there.[1]
The search of the man found 27 packets or pellets of cocaine, 14 grams of
marijuana and a substantial amount of cash, police said.[2]Police said the
man had been dealing drugs actively on the festival grounds.[2]
Criminal investigators from Grevenmacher also checked a second man who kept
close to the first and found eight bags of marijuana on him.[2]The suspected
dealer was arrested on the order of the public prosecutor’s office in Diekirch.[3]
The e-Lake festival ran on 10 and 11 August 2012, and the police detained the
dealer on the festival car park by the lake.[4]The festival organisers
thanked the police for the arrest and presented it as a result of their
anti-drug policy at the event.[4]
Photos and video
Photo published with the report on the e-Lake arrest in Echternach, credited to the Grevenmacher criminal investigation service (SREC). Photo: SREC GrevenmacherPhoto details
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