The hotel-room search took place during a large police control in Frankfurt’s Bahnhofsviertel held on Wednesday as part of the so-called Innenstadtoffensive, which was directed in part against drug dealing.[1] Plainclothes investigators searched a hotel room in the station area and found just under 3,000 capsules of the medicine pregabalin and just over 300 grams of hashish.[1] The suspect was arrested shortly afterwards in the station district.[1]
Across the wider control, officers checked more than 420 people and opened 46 investigations.[1] Twelve people were taken to the cells at police headquarters and two arrest warrants were executed.[1] Police recorded 36 residence-law violations and opened five criminal proceedings on suspicion of unlawful drug dealing.[1] Police said narcotics, cannabis products and prescription medicines were seized during the operation.[1]
The checks covered the drug scene around the station area, Konstablerwache and Allerheiligenviertel as well as several bars and restaurants.[1] Officers also carried out traffic checks, including checks on e-scooter use on the Zeil shopping street.[1] Hesse’s interior minister said street crime in the Bahnhofsviertel had recently fallen by 6.9 percent and that control pressure would not ease.[1]
