HENGELO - The police arrested six people in several places in the Netherlands on Thursday evening for involvement in the trafficking and smuggling of cocaine from Curaçao. Houses, sheds and sheds were searched in thirteen places on Thursday evening. 

This includes locations in Hengelo, Enschede, Vlaardingen, Delft, IJmuiden and Amsterdam. A search is also underway in Vreden, just across the German border. The police and the judiciary say that by these raids they are winding up a cocaine line and thus making a contribution to "increasing social resilience and safety." 

Special drug dogs were used in the search and the police worked together with a search team from the defense force. This team is deployed for difficult searches, for example if a search has to be made in very small, dark spaces, or in unsafe situations, the police reported. The team used, among other things, a ground radar, which made it possible to look up to a few meters into the soil.  

Police would not say how many kilograms of cocaine were found.