19-year-old caught with 3.5 kg hashish after Rodange chase
Luxembourg customs arrested a 19-year-old driver at Rodange on 5 April 2023 after he fled a border check and crashed. Service dog Balto found 3.5 kg of hashish hidden in the car, and officers seized the drugs with the vehicle.
Luxembourg customs officers set out to subject a car arriving from France to a
customs check near the Franco-Luxembourg border.[1]The 19-year-old driver
disobeyed the officers’ instructions and fled, so the customs officers set off
in pursuit of the car.[2]During the flight he broke traffic rules by driving
at excessive speed and running a red light, then caused a traffic accident at
Rodange where officers caught him.[2]Nobody was injured in the crash and only
material damage to the fleeing car remained.[1]Officers arrested the
19-year-old driver and presented him to the liberty judge.[2]
Officers confiscated both the drugs and the vehicle involved in the chase.[2]During the subsequent search of the vehicle, service dog Balto sniffed out the
hashish, which had been hidden in a professionally built smuggling cache in the
front compartment and the underbody of the vehicle.[2]The seizure totalled
3.5 kg of hashish found in the vehicle after the troubled border control.[2]The customs administration only disclosed the 5 April control on Thursday 29
June, saying the wait was for reasons linked to the case’s procedural
investigation.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
No court outcome beyond presentation to the liberty judge was reported.
The driver was identified only as a 19-year-old man; no name was published.
No value estimate for the hashish was published.
The second outlet account confirms the chase and seizure but its full text sits behind a paywall, so later paragraphs could not be read.
No verifiable event photo could be listed: the page lead image reuses an older customs-visit file photo, and the customs seizure photo loaded only as a placeholder without a recoverable direct address.
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