Two pensioners held after more than 9 kg of cannabis and a garden grow in Stainz
On 15 October 2026 Styrian police searched a house in Stainz shared by a 61-year-old woman and a 68-year-old man, found a cannabis plantation in the garden and more than nine kilograms of cannabis, and took both into custody on suspicion of commercial drug trafficking. Tripwires with acoustic alarms ringed the property; neither suspect confessed.
🇦🇹 Stainz, Deutschlandsberg district, Styria · Austria
On 15 October 2026 the narcotics group of the Deutschlandsberg district police command, backed by
Styria’s rapid intervention unit and other district officers, searched a single-family house in
Stainz shared by a 61-year-old woman and a 68-year-old man, on an order from the Graz prosecutor’s
office.[1][2][3][4]
The grounds were fitted with several tripwires that set off an acoustic alarm when triggered.[1][2][3][4]Inside the garden police found a cannabis plantation and already processed cannabis; altogether they
seized more than nine kilograms.[1][2][3][4]
Both suspects were arrested and remanded to Graz-Jakomini prison on suspicion of commercial drug
trafficking.[1][2][3][4]They have not confessed.[1][2][3][4]Kronen Zeitung said they were Austrian citizens
and had no prior drug record known to police.[2]
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