Police raid Checkpoint, the Netherlands' biggest coffeeshop, finding 97 kg
Dutch police raided the Checkpoint coffeeshop in Terneuzen on 1 June 2007 and found 5.1 kg of cannabis in the shop plus 92.2 kg in a nearby storehouse, far above the 500 g tolerance limit. The shop was formally warned that a repeat would mean closure; prosecutors later put the haul at 120 kg at the trial.
On 1 June 2007 Dutch police acted against Checkpoint, a coffeeshop in Terneuzen
near the Belgian border described as one of the largest in the Netherlands, finding
almost 100 kilograms of cannabis in the shop and a related storehouse.[1]The
haul came to 5.1 kilograms in the shop and 92.2 kilograms in a storehouse close by,
many times the 500 grams a coffeeshop may officially keep on hand.[1]Checkpoint
served 2,000 to 2,500 visitors a day, most of them Belgian or French.[1]
Warning
Terneuzen mayor Jan Lonink said he was not surprised at the size of the stock and
called for a serious rethink of Dutch soft-drugs policy, in which the municipality
licences the shop’s front door while the supply remains a matter for the justice
authorities.[1]Checkpoint received a formal warning: if caught again it would be
closed for the time being.[1]Prosecutors later put the 2007 haul at 120 kilograms
when the owner and sixteen staff and suppliers went on trial in Middelburg.[2][3]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Prosecutors later put the 2007 haul at 120 kilograms against the 97.3 kilograms detailed in the contemporaneous account; the report uses the contemporaneous split.
No arrests in the June 2007 raid are reported in the opened sources.
No photograph of the raid with a recoverable direct image address was found in the opened sources.
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