1,000 cannabis plants and 50 kg found in Rinteln and Porta Westfalica raids
Police searching a vacant house in Rinteln-Möllenbeck and a former pizzeria in Porta Westfalica-Barkhausen on 25 June 2026 seized more than 1,000 cannabis plants and more than 50 kg of harvested cannabis. One man was arrested at the plantation and two others are suspects in the cannabis trading investigation.
🇩🇪 Rinteln-Möllenbeck and Barkhausen, Porta Westfalica, Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia · Germany
Police searched a vacant house in Rinteln-Möllenbeck, in the Schaumburg district
of Lower Saxony, early on the morning of 25 June 2026 and found a cannabis
plantation.[1]In the same operation officers searched a former pizzeria in
Barkhausen, part of Porta Westfalica in North Rhine-Westphalia, which the
Bückeburg public prosecutor’s office said had been used as a cannabis store.[2]
A later Mindener Tageblatt report on the case repeats that more than 50
kilograms were found in the former pizzeria.[3]They arrested a 41-year-old
man at the plantation; police said he was caught working on the plants and was
to be brought before a judge on suspicion of flight risk.[1]Two other men,
aged 31 and 50, from Minden and Porta Westfalica are also suspects, and police
searched their homes for evidence.[2]
Prosecutors and police accuse the three men of trading in cannabis in not small
quantities, the wording German law uses for a serious amount, and say they ran
the plantation in the empty single-family house.[1]The searches were carried
out by officers from Rinteln police, the Lower Saxony state criminal police
office and the Minden-Lübbecke district police, and followed lengthy
investigations by the Bückeburg prosecutors and Rinteln police.[1]The
Bückeburg prosecutors said the operation followed meticulous planning and close
coordination with the Minden-Lübbecke police for the searches in Porta
Westfalica and Minden.[1]
Police said the investigations were continuing at the time of the raids.[1]
Photos and video
Photo published with the article on the former pizzeria in Porta Westfalica-Barkhausen. Photo: Jan Henning Rogge / Mindener TageblattPhoto details
Mindener Tageblattmt.deDEMehr als 50 Kilo Cannabis in ehemaliger Pizzeria in Porta entdeckt: Wie es nach dem Fund weitergeht
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The Mindener Tageblatt article is behind a paywall and its captured text is only the teaser, so its report that prosecutors filed an indictment at the Amtsgericht Rinteln, with a main hearing still to come, is not used as a fact here.
No trial date, court ruling or sentence is known; prosecutors and police had not announced charges at the time of the June accounts.
Police describe one 41-year-old man arrested and two further suspects aged 31 and 50; NDR published the arrested man's age as 47, while the police statement-based accounts say 41.
The accounts give more than 1,000 plants and more than 50 kilograms of cannabis, not exact laboratory figures.
It is not reported whether the plants were destroyed or kept as evidence, or whether the arrested man was remanded in custody.
The photo on the Mindener Tageblatt page is credited to Jan Henning Rogge; what it shows beyond the article's subject is not stated in the readable text.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in NDR: Officers seized more than 1,000 cannabis plants and, in the former pizzeria, more than 50 kilograms of harvested cannabis.
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