LSD Pokémon cards: Dutch police arrest five in narcotics bust
The police have arrested five suspects in the Limburg town of Vaals in a drug trafficking investigation sparked by a tip from authorities abroad. The suspects were caught with a large amount of narcotics, including a sheet of LSD blotter stamps printed to look like Pokémon cards, the police reported on Monday.
Based on information from their foreign colleagues, the Heuvelland police, working with the police’s Flex Team, a police team tasked with offering support to other police units, launched an investigation and quickly identified two suspects. They tracked them down having a meeting with a third suspect in a car during the early hours of Friday morning.
Searching the car, the police found and seized 15 packages of cocaine, 100 ecstasy pills, and 220 grams of amphetamine. All three men were arrested. They’re a 27-year-old from Vaals, a 24-year-old from Vaals, and a 29-year-old from Sankt Vith in Belgium.
Investigators also searched a residential address and seized various substances, including one sheet of LSD stamps printed as Pokémon cards, 240 ecstasy pills, 900 grams of amphetamine, and 36 cartridges, some of which were explosives. The police arrested a 21-year-old woman from Vaals at the house.
A fifth suspect, a minor boy from Vaals, turned himself in at a police station and was also arrested.
The investigation is ongoing, and the police expect more arrests to follow.
