Cologne - He could not keep away from cocaine. Since Thursday afternoon drug king Heinz Chapius (55) is sitting in jail. In the kölsche juvenile had been released on parole until March 2006.
"Chappi" last lived with his wife in a simple Nippesser apartment, had originally scrapped in a firm bulbs. But a life of poverty, he would not.
Chappi let revive old contacts. A mistake. For his famous name in drug investigators arrived faster than he had imagined. A special command was arresting him.
And with his three accomplices (25/26/30) were arrested. With Chappi they should have built up a drug trade. Weapons and ammunition were also found, as officials rushed yesterday, a total of twelve apartments in the Cologne / Bonn area and searched. An official: "They are accused of trafficking in cocaine and amphetamine in the kilo range."
Early 90s was the number 1 in Cologne, organized drug trafficking. Send millions from his villa in the Belgian Lanaken he steered his drug empire.
Chappi had direct contacts with the powerful drug lords of Colombia's drug cartel in Medellin, then let the fabric of Poland and to bring Switzerland into Germany. Overall, several hundred pounds to have discontinued Chappi.
He modestly admitted at his trial 85 kilograms. On 9 August 1996 Heinz Chapius was sentenced to Höchstrafe: 15 years.
The existing drugs as a highly intelligent king growled seven years in maximum security unit to protect it from possible attacks. For Chappi had sung in the process.
Now Chappi will probably have to spend the rest of his life in prison. He threatens a sentence, followed by preventive detention. The end of the drug lord.
