Five held as Vienna police seize 60 kg marijuana in bunker flats
Vienna police arrested five men aged 25 to 39 on 22 September 2026 and searched two bunker flats in Hernals and Döbling used by an organised trafficking gang. Officers seized about 60 kg of marijuana alongside 3.6 kg of cocaine, cash and forged IDs; the five were jailed pending pre-trial detention requests.
🇦🇹 Hernals and Döbling, Vienna · Austria
Arrested
5
Cannabis
60 kg
Cash confiscated
EUR 1,500
Agencies
Einsatzgruppe zur Bekämpfung der Straßenkriminalität (EGS), Staatsanwaltschaft Wien
Austrian police arrested five men in Vienna on 22 September 2026 on suspicion of
drug trafficking.[1]The suspects are 25 to 39 years old and are Serbian,
Bulgarian and Austrian nationals.[2]They were picked up in
Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus, Hernals and Döbling.[1]Officers identified, stopped and
provisionally arrested the five suspected dealers during the street-crime
operation, with the arrests taking place in a taxi according to police.[3]They were reported under the Narcotic Substances Act and taken to a prison on
the Vienna prosecution service’s order, with pre-trial detention sought for all
five.[3]
Investigators then searched two homes in Hernals and Döbling believed to have
been used as storage premises.[1]Police say the flats served a gang linked to
organised drug crime as drug hideouts.[4]Investigators seized about 60
kilograms of marijuana and 3.6 kilograms of cocaine along with two forged
identity documents.[4]Officers also seized about 1,500 euros in cash and two
forged identity documents.[1]Police put the street sale value of the drugs at
about one million euros.[3]
Photos and video
Seized drugs laid out after the Vienna bunker-flat searches. Photo: LPD Wien via krone.atPhoto details
krone.atkrone.atDEMillionenwert: Beamte finden 60 Kilo Marihuana
Kurierkurier.atDEZwei Drogen-„Bunkerwohnungen“ in Wien ausgehoben, fünf Festnahmen
Open questions the AI reported
The marijuana figure is approximate: the sources say about (rund/ongeveer) 60 kilograms, not an exact weighed total.
The 3.6 kilograms of cocaine and the combined street value of about one million euros cover both drugs and are not counted as cannabis figures.
One account says the five were arrested in a taxi while another lists pick-ups in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus, Hernals and Döbling; the reports agree on the five arrests but differ on this detail.
The Austrian reports were published on 22 October 2026; 22 September 2026 is the stated day of the arrests and searches.
No court outcome beyond the requested pre-trial detention was reported; the case stood at the charged stage.
The submitted headline describes the cannabis as vacuum-packed, but the opened body gives no packaging detail.
The Kurier page's close-up photo of a flowering cannabis plant is a generic image and is not listed as a picture of this event.
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