Police searching for bike thieves arrest suspected drug dealer
Friday 11th September 2026 on 14:45 in
Austria
Police investigating bicycle thefts at Baden railway station arrested a suspected drug dealer carrying cocaine and other drugs, ORF reported.
A city police detective saw two men enter a parking garage during the investigation on Thursday. The officer followed them and allegedly caught them conducting a drug deal. A 43-year-old man was arrested.
Police seized about 45 grams of cocaine and other drugs from the suspect. A warrant for his arrest had already been issued by the Wiener Neustadt public prosecutor over suspected fraudulent misuse of data processing.
The case was handed over to the federal police narcotics unit for further investigation, police said in a statement on Friday.