Regional court gives out long-term prison sentences to members of international drug ring

A regional court in Brno on Wednesday sentenced five members of an international drug ring, which had attempted to smuggle over ten kilograms of heroin from Turkey into the Czech Republic. The main defendant, a Turkish citizen, received the highest sentence of 14.5 years; the other four gang members were given sentences between 10 and 12.5 years. Police had secured the roughly 150,000 doses of heroin that the men were smuggling in a hidden compartment in a rental car in March of last year.

Author: Sarah Borufka