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Thursday, 10 October 2013 - 01:17

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Police find half a million in home Brit

In the Amsterdam home of a 50-year-old Englishman, the police found half a million cash, using a sniffer dog, announced the Public Ministry Wednesday.Most of the money was hidden in two cavities of a TV cabinet. The rest was located behind a baseboard under a kitchen unit, where incidentally also a quantity of cocaine was hidden . In a can of Red Bull in the fridge police also discovered a bag of coke. police dog
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Flickr A SWAT team arrested the suspect Tuesday afternoon in the parking lot of a shopping area in Amsterdam Southeast, at the request of the British authorities. The cash and the drugs were found during the police search of his home in Amsterdam-West. The man is wanted in his own country for large-scale drug trafficking. The police will turn him over.

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