The Seaport Police say that on Wednesday at a port site in the Rotterdam Waalhaven, two collectors were arrested in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday. The suspects are a 16-year-old boy and a 41-year-old man from Rotterdam.
The arrest was made around midnight by Customs officials. The two are now being questioned by the police.
People are arrested almost every week on harbor grounds in the Rijnmond. Networks work in the port that can be hired by drug smugglers who want their shipments removed from containers. It is a crime to enter port areas without authorization.
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Extractors (16 years old) had themselves delivered in a container
