Customs officials carried out a check for a handlebar who entered Austria. Under the driver’s seat, the officers found a white powder packed in plastic. Upon request, the man denied having knowledge of the substance. It was striking that calls of the handlebar’s cell phone were received several times during the check. The mobile phone was therefore ensured.
A test showed that the ensured substance was ketamine with a total weight of 1,009.4 grams. In the course of the interrogation, the suspicious information about the origin of the addiction agent refused, but stated that he wanted to bring the goods to a friend. The handlebar was subsequently arrested according to the addictive law and due to the risk of escape.
“With the successful intervention, the civil servants of the customs once again showed that the smuggling of adhesion in Austria is consistently pursued and successfully prevented. Customs does an excellent work to protect the population and I thank the emergency services for their determined and professional approach,” so State Secretary Barbara Eibinger-Miedl.
Ketamine is a drug that was originally developed as an anesthetic and is used primarily in human and veterinary medicine for short anesthesia or pain treatment. It works above all through a blockade of the NMDA receptor in the brain and thereby has a changing, pain-relieving and sedative properties. Because of its dissociative effect, however, it is also misused as a party drug, which is associated with health risks.
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