Three held in Vienna-Penzing after check finds cannabis and crystal meth
Vienna police arrested two men and a woman in the Märzstraße in Penzing after a routine check of a trio pushing a bicycle turned up suspected burglary tools, cannabis, crystal meth and a forged 200-euro note. The 32-year-old woman told officers the two men had just stolen the bicycle from a cellar, and her account made her a suspect too.
Police in Vienna-Penzing arrested a 34-year-old Slovak man, a 45-year-old
Hungarian man and a 32-year-old Hungarian woman on the evening of 7 November
2026.[1]Officers from the Albert-Schweitzer-Gasse police station stopped the
three in the Märzstraße at about 19:30 while the trio was pushing a bicycle
along the street and they behaved conspicuously nervously on seeing the patrol.[2]
The two men were wearing work gloves that did not match their clothing and were
carrying a broken padlock.[3]During the check officers seized suspected
burglary tools, several bunches of keys, cannabis and crystal meth, along with a
forged 200-euro banknote.[3]
The 32-year-old woman told officers the two men had just stolen the bicycle from
a cellar, and her statement also raised suspicion that she had taken part in the
burglary and may have kept watch during it.[3]All three suspects were then
arrested, and police said the investigation was continuing, including whether
the trio had committed further offences.[3]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
No quantity is given for the cannabis, crystal meth or the forged banknote, so no weight or value is recorded.
The cannabis and crystal meth were found together among the items the trio carried; the sources do not say how much of either was seized or in what form the cannabis was.
The sources do not state whether charges were filed, what offence the three are suspected of beyond the burglary and drug possession, or any court outcome.
Police said the investigation was continuing, including whether the three were responsible for further offences.
The account comes from the Vienna police press release, which 5 Minuten and Heute reproduce; no independent reporting of the arrest was found, and the Regionews and Polizei.news copies are the same release.
The Märzstraße is named as the place of the check; no address or cellar is identified, and the bicycle theft itself is only an accusation.
5 Minuten and Heute both add that the presumption of innocence applies to the three.
The police release lists the two men's nationalities in the same order as their ages (Slovakia, then Hungary), but neither it nor the outlets state which man is which.
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