Police lift to Mersch ends with 2.1 kg marijuana and two arrests
Luxembourg police gave a lightly clad man a lift in Moesdorf late on Wednesday and found about 1.8 kg of marijuana in his bag. He blamed a relative whose car police then stopped; a search of the two relatives' shared flat found another 300 g in 19 bags, and the prosecutor had both residents arrested.
A police patrol found a man in the rue d’Ettelbrück in Moesdorf late on the
evening of Wednesday 1 February 2017, very lightly clothed for the weather, and
offered him a lift to Mersch after he said he had missed his bus.[1]When he
got into the car officers noticed the smell of marijuana and found that he was
carrying two large bags of it.[2]
At the police station the bags were weighed at 800 grams and one kilo, about 1.8
kg in total.[3]The man claimed he was innocent and that the bag belonged to
an acquaintance who had thrown him out of his car shortly before.[1]Police
found and stopped that car, driven by a family member of the man, with another
man inside.[1]
The public prosecutor ordered a house search at the shared home of the man and
the driver, carried out with a dog handler.[1]The flat smelled of marijuana
on entry and officers seized 19 small bags holding more than 300 grams in total.[2]Drug utensils, a prohibited weapon and a small bag of white powder were
also confiscated.[1]
The prosecutor’s office ordered the arrest of the two residents and both were
brought before an investigating judge on Thursday morning.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The 2.1 kg seized figure is the sum of the 800 grams and one kilo found on the man in Moesdorf and the more than 300 grams found in the flat; Le Quotidien and the Luxembourg Times give the two street bags separately, L'essentiel gives a 1.8 kg total.
Le Quotidien and L'essentiel say the two residents were presented to the prosecutor on Thursday morning; the Luxembourg Times says they were presented to an investigating judge.
The 300 grams were found together with an unspecified amount of white powder, a prohibited weapon and drug utensils, and no source says whether the flat discovery was classed as possession for sale, so no trafficking activity is recorded.
No charges, names, ages or court outcome were reported, and the reports do not say whether the two residents were remanded or released.
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