Police close Checkpoint, the Netherlands' biggest coffeeshop, seizing 110 kg
Dutch police raided the Checkpoint coffeeshop in Terneuzen on 20 May 2008, seizing a further large cannabis stock and closing what was described as the country's biggest coffeeshop. Prosecutors later put the seizure at 110 kilograms; the owner and sixteen staff and suppliers went on trial in Middelburg.
On 20 May 2008 Dutch police again raided the Checkpoint coffeeshop in Terneuzen and
closed what was described as the biggest coffeeshop in the Netherlands.[1]Prosecutors later put the cannabis seized in the raid at 110 kilograms.[2][3]Before its closure Checkpoint had served 2,000 to 3,000 customers a day, most of
them Belgian or French.[2][3]
The closure followed a June 2007 raid in which investigators had found 120 kilograms
at the shop.[3]Owner Meddy Willemsen and sixteen managers and suppliers later stood
trial in Middelburg on trafficking and criminal-organisation charges.[2][3]
Case data
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A later magazine account gives 72 kilograms seized in the shop against the prosecution figure of 110 kilograms; the report uses the prosecution figure.
The opened reports do not say whether anyone was arrested during the May 2008 raid.
No photograph of the raid with a recoverable direct image address was found in the opened sources.
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