Four – including member of Castle guard – charged with illegal drug production and sale

Police from the country’s national anti-drug centre say they arrested a group of four individuals in February suspected of the illegal manufacture and sale of marijuana and cocaine. Defence Ministry spokeswoman Lucie Kubovičová said that one of the four suspects is a member of the Prague Castle guard. If found guilty, each of the suspects could spend up to ten years in prison; three of the people are Czech nationals, one is from the Netherlands. Police monitored the group over several months, determining it operated in Prague and Central Bohemia. Detectives moved in during an attempted sale of half a kilo of cocaine and three kilos of marijuana in Prague’s Letňany. Drugs seized at the suspects’ homes were estimated as being worth around 1.5 million crowns.