# Police arrest eight in Groningen drug raids, seize 3.6 kilos

> Police searched nine homes in Groningen and Assen on Tuesday and found cocaine, heroin and more than €40,000 in cash; all eight suspects are from Groningen.

Society · published 2026-11-06 16:57 · https://nlnow.nl/a/police-arrest-eight-in-groningen-drug-raids-seize-3-6-kilos/

Police arrested eight people on Tuesday 3 November in a drugs investigation led by the Interventieteam HIT. Officers searched eight homes in Groningen and one in Assen.

The suspects are seven men and one woman, aged 33 to 49. All come from Groningen. Police found 3.6 kilos of hard drugs, including cocaine and heroin.

Police also seized more than €40,000 in cash.

All suspects appear before the examining magistrate (rechter-commissaris) on Friday 6 November.

Police say drug crime affects the safety and liveability of neighbourhoods, and that criminal networks often exploit vulnerable people. Financial problems, addiction and dependence can be used to draw people into crime, police say. They say the HIT team combines local knowledge with specialist expertise to tackle such networks.

## Background

- **Interventieteam HIT**: The Interventieteam HIT is a unit of the Dutch police that leads criminal investigations and carries out arrests and house searches, mostly against organised crime such as drug trafficking. In the Netherlands it is the police team that gathers evidence and makes arrests in larger investigations, and it works with the public prosecution service on those cases.

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