Heilbronn (dpa / lsw) – After a suspected drug ring was exposed in Heilbronn prison, there were two more arrests. A 26-year-old is in custody because he is suspected of procuring doping substances and smuggling them into the correctional facility (JVA) through third parties, the public prosecutor’s office and the police said on Wednesday. A suspected 36-year-old, who is said to have helped the drug gang, was released after his apartment was searched last Thursday.
At the end of September, investigators announced that they had also arrested a JVA employee after a major raid in the prison. He is said to have been bribed so that doping and narcotics could be smuggled into the facility since the middle of last year. At that time, the authorities were already investigating more than 30 suspects in the case. In addition to the alleged gang members, these included suppliers, customers and other parties involved in the business.
The system was sophisticated: gang members are said to have taken the orders in jail and distributed the contraband around the prison, while others collected the money from relatives of the incarcerated customers. “As soon as the incoming payment was reported to the imprisoned gang members, they handed over the ordered substances to the buyers,” said the public prosecutor’s office and the police in Heilbronn at the time. Smugglers are said to have been the arrested man and therapy dropouts or new prisoners who were able to smuggle in the goods as previously swallowed, so-called body packs.
