Drug depots in the forest: eight years imprisonment for 30-year-olds

Last year, a dealer from the Lohr area was able to deliver amphetamine and hashish by the kilo and immediately after ordering: He only had to walk a short distance from his apartment into the forest, where he had hidden the substance in earth bunkers. The man, 30 years old, a drug addict and no criminal record, has now been sentenced to eight years imprisonment for trafficking in and possession of narcotics, around ten kilograms of amphetamine and seven kilograms of hashish and marijuana.

At the time of the offense, the former warehouse worker was in the first year of training as a nurse at the Lohr district hospital. He will return there soon, despite being given notice, because the court has ordered his placement for withdrawal therapy. Before that, however, he has to serve two years in advance of the total sentence. In addition, a ?? juicy ?? Invoice presented: Almost 100,000 euros so-called ?? value replacement ?? for the sales that have been put on record. The judgment became final immediately. The defendant accepted and the prosecutor waived his right to appeal.

Broken doorbell on the front door became doom

The trial concerned amphetamine and hashish deals with a customer in Lohr who was known to the court. A few months ago he was sentenced to a sentence of six years and ten months. The defective bell on the customer’s front door led the investigators to track down the accused supplier: because he could no longer ring the bell, but had to call when he was standing in front of the locked front door with cloth. The investigators noticed this during the telephone surveillance. When the man announced on January 12, 2020 at around 6.30 p.m. again on his mobile phone that he was standing in front of the door with 1.2 kilos of amphetamine from the forest, the police officers who were observing the site attacked.

Given the above-average quality of the amphetamine, one must assume, according to the prosecutor, that it came straight from a drug laboratory and was not stretched. Although he clearly wants to draw a line under his dealer career and start again, the defendant did not name his supplier in court: allegedly out of fear and concern for his family members. He had become a father a few weeks before the arrest.

?? accounting ?? with information on earth bunkers in the forest

The dealer was also convicted of armed narcotics trafficking: in his father’s house he had kept around 160 grams of amphetamine in a wooden box between the TV and the couch, and a box with a hanging knife, a pocket knife and a jackknife were there. Even if the defendant assured that it was only a tool for packing and portioning drugs, the court assumed, as is customary in such cases, that weapons, close at hand next to drugs, are ?? suitable or intended for harming people? ? in case there is trouble with customer trouble.

Bad luck for the accused: The detailed records of his drug deals, gram prices, debts with the supplier and outstanding debts with customers, what is hidden in what amount and where in the forest, was found after his arrest during a house search. As a result, the detainee, according to a detective in court, behaved quite cooperatively and also led the investigators to his drug depots. The only thing that the defendant did not find was an earth bunker, and neither did a police drug dog. There should still be 1.4 kilograms of amphetamine hidden.

In his business dealings, the accused seems to have been ripped off by suppliers and buyers: despite considerable sales, only a current account and a building society loan agreement with very little credit could be identified.

Criminal Chamber: Why That is an unusual case

The hearing before the 6th criminal chamber of the regional court was unusual in several ways: It is very rare, said the presiding judge Thomas Trapp, that a drug-related accused, in his first trial ever, deals with such amounts of drugs. But one has seldom seen a defendant before who is already working so determinedly on his exit from dependency while in custody. like the former male nurse.

And what was remarkable for the court was how united the family stood behind the accused. The audience seats, which had been greatly reduced due to Corona, were only occupied by relatives, siblings who had partly traveled from afar and were also father and mother ?? despite divorce – there. He had led a double life, said the defendant, apart from his current partner, nobody noticed. His ?? last word ?? he does not speak to the front, to the judges, asking for a mild sentence, but to the relatives in the auditorium: he tearfully apologizes for what he has done to them.

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