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Twelve suspects were arrested in a Europol dismantling of a people smuggling ring in cooperation with the Dutch, Belgian, French and English authorities. According to Europol, the suspects smuggled a large number of migrants in life-threatening conditions through the English Channel. The suspects were arrested in a two-day long operation on Monday and Tuesday. Seven […]

A 24-year-old Lelystad man was arrested late last week in connection with a scam in which people posing as healthcare workers drew blood from elderly people while grifting them out of money. He was the third person to be arrested in the scam which dates back to last October. They were accused of scaring older […]

A 65-year-old Amsterdam man was arrested off the coast of Den Helder on accusations that he was smuggling a half-dozen people aboard his sailing yacht. He was caught by the crew of De Zeearend, a Coast Guard ship which stopped the yacht on Wednesday evening. “The man had six Albanians on board his sailing yacht,” […]

A 22-year-old man is accused of molesting 9 children between the ages of 5 and 8 while he interned as their swimming teacher at a pool in Arnhem last year. The Public Prosecution Service (OM) demanded one year in prison and institutionalized psychiatric treatment against him in court on Friday. The man molested the children […]

Police in Hilversum said they were trying to figure out who threw a hammer at two officers on Tuesday at around 9:15 p.m. A bicyclist threw the object at the cops while they were on Groest. “The hammer flew through the window of the police car, sending a shard of glass into the eye of […]

Dutch naval vessel Zr.Ms. Groningen led two more drug seizures in the Caribbean, capturing just over two thousand kilograms of illegal drugs in the process. The ship’s crew took part in five such operations in September alone. On Monday, the Dutch crew deployed its Fast Raiding Interception Special Forces Crafts (FRISCs) while working with the […]

The police in Veluwe West thanked dog Frodo for helping to catch three men suspected of stealing his owner’s handbag from her home in Hardewijk. “Little Frodo wasn’t only brave in the movie The Lord of the Rings, but also in real life,” the police said on Instagram. The owner was sleeping in her home […]