Outwardly, they were a completely ordinary couple.
The man was employed at a school in Skåne and the wife was a preschool teacher – but behind the facade hid an extensive and structured drug sale.
– It is a big disappointment for me as a manager and for the colleagues who had a good relationship with him, says the school’s principal to South Sweden.
During the day she was a preschool teacher. But her husband called her the “Narco Queen”. Together they ran a large-scale drug sale, Sydsvenskan reports.
The man had been employed at a municipal primary school for many years. It was also where the cocaine was packaged and the customers received.
The children dumped cocaine and thousands of tablets
In the spring of 2023, their secret will be revealed. On the evening of April 20 last year, the man was arrested inside the school after civilian police detectives saw him selling drugs at Möllevångstorget. When he does not answer the phone, the wife realizes that something has gone wrong and panics.
The newspaper writes that she fills carrier bags with cocaine and thousands of narcotic tablets. She gives the boxes to their minor children, who are tasked with dumping them outside.
But shortly afterwards she too is arrested. The police find a kilo of cocaine, 1,400 narcotic tablets and SEK 140,000 in cash inside the couple’s apartment. In a park outside, another kilo of cocaine was found, only that with an estimated street value of SEK 1.8 million, and over 5,000 narcotic tablets.
“Extra serious”
During the house search at the school where the man was employed, the police and the drug dog Fubbik discover a maple compartment in the ceiling, cocaine residue and small bags in which the drug was packaged, Sydsvenskan writes.
– No one could have imagined this at all. It becomes extra serious when he has done it during working hours. It is completely unacceptable and sad. It is a big disappointment for me as a manager and for the colleagues who had a good relationship with him, says the school’s principal to Sydsvenskan.
Both the man and the woman were convicted of serious drug offenses and have been fired from their jobs. The man has confessed but the woman denies the crime. She claims that she thought it was exercise supplements.
– I am very shocked and very sad. I have never been in such a situation before, she has said in questioning according to the newspaper.