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Big blow against drug-related crimes: suspects could be investigated in Amstetten. 2,715.5 grams of heroin sold. Profit between 54,000 and 95,000 euros.
CITY OF AMSTETTEN. Since May 2020, members of the criminal services group from the Amstetten police station have carried out extensive surveys against a pair of Russian brothers living in Amstetten, aged 25 and 27, who were suspected of having repeatedly bought large quantities. of heroin in the urban area of Vienna and had been taken to Amstetten. and having sold the addictive substances in the urban area of Amstetten for a profit to various buyers to finance their addiction and their livelihood.
Heroin sold from the balcony
The drug transactions were carried out using the two brothers’ cell phones, after which the drugs were partly delivered to a parking lot in the immediate vicinity of the apartments or the heroin was also sold to buyers directly from the balcony of one apartment.
Subsequently, the St. Pölten prosecutor’s office issued arrest warrants as well as search and seizure warrants for a total of three apartments owned by the two brothers.
Police arrest suspects
On July 8, 2020, the 25-year-old defendant drove a 22-year-old North Macedonian citizen from Amstetten and a 29-year-old Austrian, also from Amstetten, in a car to Vienna to buy heroin. In the course of observation measures of the employees of the Amstetten District Police Command and the St. Pölten City Police Command, the 25-year-old suspect was arrested in Vienna Penzing, ordered by the Public Prosecutor of St. Pölten. The 22-year-old and 29-year-old were also arrested for entering with 50 grams of heroin. A total of 100 grams of heroin was found and seized from the three people.
During the night of July 8, 2020, the 27-year-old suspect was arrested at his apartment in Amstetten. The search warrants ordered by the St. Pölten prosecutor’s office were carried out at the Amstetten apartments. Additional addictive substances, cash, utensils for addictive substances, packaging material, addictive scales, sachets, etc., as well as three soft weapons were seized.
The accused confesses
After the preliminary investigations and interrogations were completed, the brothers were admitted to St. Pölten Prison on behalf of the St. Pölten Public Prosecutor. The accused confessed. A provisional weapons ban was imposed on them.
The arrests of the 22-year-old North Macedonian and the 29-year-old Austrian were lifted at the request of the St. Pölten prosecutor. The St. Pöltern prosecutor will be informed.
35 Mostviertel buyers
In the course of the extensive investigation, 35 clients from the districts of Amstetten, Melk and Scheibbs were found and reported to the St. Pölten prosecutor. It could be shown that at least 10 of these buyers were actively involved in shopping trips to Vienna.
Based on the current status of the investigation, the brothers and sisters have been buying at least 3,315.5 grams of heroin in the Vienna urban area since January 2019 and have sold at least 2,715.5 grams of heroin to various customers in the area. urban Amstetten at a profit. In this way, she obtained a profit of between 54,000 and 95,000 euros.
In an apartment in Amstetten, where the brothers were registered as their main residence but never stayed there, a tent with 120 cannabis plants was found.
