The newest members of the special German customs force combating the illegal trade in endangered species are just three years old, with bright brown eyes and noses that can sniff out a smuggled frog through two layers of plastic.
An enterprising unemployed man who was caught dealing in magic mushrooms has been told he does not have to pay the more than €7,000 business start up money the German employment office gave him.
A drug-addicted homeless man who slept for nine years in a luggage locker at DĂĽsseldorf's main train station could face jail after Deutsche Bahn took him to court for repeated trespassing.
A German court sharpened penalties for methamphetamine posession on Wednesday in a preliminary ruling that called the drug particularly dangerous to users.
Customs agents at the Frankfurt am Main airport announced on Wednesday they had seized a seemingly worthless piano containing 16 kilogrammes of cocaine.
Police raided some 600 homes and businesses in Germany, Switzerland and Austria on Wednesday in an investigation of two online companies thought to be selling chemicals used to make illegal drugs.
Customs police in the German town Kleve near the Dutch border have busted a 69-year-old woman for growing over 1,100 marijuana plants with a high-tech setup in an old mill.
Officials in the German city of Kaldenkirchen are mobilizing against German students taking "holiday excursions" through the border town to buy marijuana in the Netherlands, police announced on Tuesday.
German police and customs workers arrested seven alleged major drug traffickers in possession of €7 million worth of cocaine at the Frankfurt airport on Tuesday.
A growing number of classical musicians in Germany are turning to drugs and alcohol, according to the vice president of the German Association for Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine (DGfMM).
Slovak police said on Friday they have detained a German accused of playing a major role in trafficking ecstasy pills from Europe to the United States.
Six police officers in the northern German city of Bremen are being investigated for giving illegal drugs to informants as payment. The officers are believed to have provided marijuana and hashish to snitches on multiple occasions from 2003 to 2007 in return for information, the Bremen public prosecutor's office announced on Wednesday.
