A 57-year-old man from Kristiansand was sentenced to three years in prison after being caught with large quantities of heroin and other narcotics on several occasions.[1] Police also seized more than 190,000 kroner in cash, which the man has now forfeited, and the judgment is his 49th.[1] He was arrested with narcotics five times between July 2023 and September 2026, with seizures made at several places in Kristiansand city centre.[1] In total he stored about 149 grams of heroin, 128 grams of amphetamine and 84 grams of methamphetamine, as well as hashish and several hundred narcotic tablets.[1]
One of the incidents took place in March 2025, when a bus driver called police about a passenger he could not wake, and officers found the man unconscious at the bus station in Kristiansand.[1] In his pockets were 61.73 grams of heroin, 56.75 grams of amphetamine and a number of narcotic tablets, and he was taken to hospital and given an antidote.[1]
At three of the drug seizures police found a total of 191,450 kroner in cash.[1] The man said the money came from his disability pension and had been saved for a deposit on a home, but Agder tingrett did not believe the explanation and confiscated the whole amount.[1] The man has 48 previous convictions, including a number of narcotics cases, and said he had been addicted since he was 13 or 14 and that the narcotics were intended for his own use.[1] The court found that the storage was in principle connected to his own addiction but stressed that the quantities carried a considerable risk of distribution.[1]
The court found that all the offences in the man’s 49th criminal case warranted a combined sentence of five years, reduced because of his confessions and the long processing time.[1] Agder tingrett found that the case had had around 14 months of delay, which it said amounted to a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights.[1] The sentence was therefore set at three years in prison.[1]
