In the middle of Christmas Eve, December 24, a private person stumbled across an amphetamine hide during a root roll on Bölesholmarna in Umeå.

The person contacted the police, who replaced the bag with 334 grams of amphetamine with potato flour and water that was shaped to resemble drugs.

The police then scouted the scene.

Ahead of noon, a man appeared.

After spending a few minutes at the root roll, he started walking away, whereupon the two policemen who were guarding the place confronted the man and handcuffed him.

According to the police report, the man was wearing a small digital scale and a bag of white powder, part of the potato flour that the police had hidden.

The police scouted for several hours on Christmas Eve against the amphetamine keeper during a upheaval on Bölesholmarna in Umeå.

Photo: SVT / Google, Police preliminary investigation report

The man: Assigned to move the drugs

The man denied during the trial that he had committed any crime.

He admitted that he was there to get the amphetamine, but that since the bag had been exchanged for potato flour, it was an "unsuitable attempt".

He also stated that he had been commissioned by another person to pick up 100 grams of the amphetamine in the hideout and transport it to another place.

For this job he would have to keep five grams for his own use.

The prosecutor primarily demanded that the man be convicted of drug offenses for having acquired 334 grams of amphetamine for the purpose of transfer or storage.

But the district court did not follow that line.

Instead, it was the prosecutor's alternative claim, attempted drug crime, for which the court convicted the man.

Having tried to transport 100 grams of amphetamine, unaware that it was potato flour.

Convicted several times before

The man already appears under 16 sections in the criminal record.

He is now sentenced by Umeå District Court to seven months in prison.

The motivation for the punishment is, among other things, that he relapsed into a similar crime almost immediately after being released on parole from a previous sentence.