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Krakkfaraldur í miðju milljarðastríði gegn fíkniefnum

<p>Three women meet in Borgartún in Reykjavík. It is a Tuesday evening in March and it is rather cold outside.</p><p>The women are Svala Jóhannesdóttir, chair of Matthildarsamtökin, and the volunteers Anna Þórhallsdóttir and Guðný Þóra Þórðardóttir. Anna and Guðný Þóra are on their way out to meet the organization’s clients, as it offers harm reduction services for people who smoke drugs</p>

Tveir þeirra handteknu sagðir vera starfsmenn Eimskips

<p>Three people have been remanded in custody for a week in connection with an investigation by the Capital Area Police into a major drug case. According to sources of <a href="https://www.visir.is/g/20262869238d/tveir-hand-teknu-starfs-menn-eimskipa">Sýn's newsroom</a>, two of the three people in custody are employees of Eimskip.</p><p>Harpa Hödd Sigurðardóttir, Executive Director of Human Resour

Framvísaði fölsuðu ökuskírteini frá Úkraínu

<img align="left" alt="In Kópavogur, a foreign national was arrested for possession of narcotics, and proceeds from the sales were seized by the police." src="https://c.arvakur.is/frimg/1/64/11/1641160A.jpg" style="margin: 0 1em 1em 0;" /> The police stopped a driver while driving in Garðabær earlier today. When the driver was asked to present identification, he produced a forged driver's license

Tveir handteknu starfsmenn Eimskipa

Two employees of Eimskip are in custody suspected of involvement in smuggling a substantial quantity of strong narcotics into the country. According to sources of the news desk, the narcotics are in liquid form. A house search was carried out at the home of a third person, who was remanded in custody for one week today.

Aldrei meira kókaín á Íslandi

<p>“There has just been a crack epidemic. It is mainly the obsession with crack, this obsession where you believe that you always need one more, just one more ‘smoke,’ just one more piece,” says an interviewee in the news analysis program Kveik tonight. It will cover the war against drugs in Iceland and the greatly increased use of crack.</p><p>Crack is cocaine that is mixed with

Verulegt magn fíkniefna og hönnunarbolli í vorgjöf

Three people are in custody in connection with a police investigation into the smuggling of a substantial quantity of strong narcotics into the country. We will review what is known in the case in the evening news.

Þrír í gæsluvarðhald vegna gruns um innflutning á verulegu magni fíkniefna

<p>Three people have been remanded in custody for one week in connection with an investigation by the Capital Area Police into a large-scale drug case. The case concerns the importation of a substantial quantity of hard drugs, according to police.</p><p>Six people were arrested in extensive police operations yesterday. Two were remanded in custody yesterday and one today. Three were released from

Sex handteknir og um verulegt magn sterkra efna að ræða

A man in his forties whom the police suspect of large-scale drug smuggling with Dettifoss was last arrested by police in January on suspicion of a serious assault at a Þorrablót festival in Kópavogur. Police carried out a house search at his home in the capital area yesterday and seized numerous items belonging to him. A total of six people were arrested and three are in custody in connection with

Góðkunninginn í vikulangt gæsluvarðhald vegna smygls

One person has been remanded in custody for one week due to the importation of narcotics on an Eimskip container ship.

Í gæsluvarðhaldi grunaður um fíkniefnasmygl með Dettifossi

<p>One person has been remanded in custody for a week on suspicion of attempting to smuggle narcotics into the country on the Dettifoss. Two others were arrested but have been released. This is according to sources of the newsroom.</p><p>The police are refusing to comment on the case. Ævar Pálmi Pálmason, assistant chief superintendent at the Central Investigation Department of the Capital Area Po

Góðkunningjar lögreglu grunaðir í stóru dópmáli

The Capital Area Police’s Central Investigation Department made arrests yesterday in connection with the alleged importation of narcotics into the country. According to news desk sources, police are investigating an importation via an Eimskip container ship and had a presence at the company’s port area during the first part of the day yesterday.

Ók á tæplega tvöföldum leyfilegum hraða

Police were called to an entertainment venue in district three, which serves Kópavogur and Breiðholt, because of an assault. In districts one and two, a total of nine people were arrested on suspicion of drunk driving or driving under the influence of narcotics. Seven drivers were charged with speeding.

„Að mínu mati lýsir þessi dómur ekki réttlæti“

Aníta Rut Harðardóttir, a police officer who was recently convicted for unlawful searches in LÖKE, believes the judgment is not just. “What justice is there in loan sharks and drug dealers being able to threaten the life and limbs of a single person in a vulnerable situation with a young child to support?” she asks.

Fletti upp í LÖKE vegna meintrar fíkniefnaskuldar vandamanns

Aníta Rut Harðardóttir, a police officer, looked up people's names in the police registration system, LÖKE, in order to reach a man who had filed a claim in a family member's online bank account over an alleged old drug debt. She was fined one hundred thousand krónur for the act and must pay just under 900 thousand krónur in legal costs.

Þrír í fimm ára fangelsi fyrir fíkniefnasmygl

<p>The District Court of Reykjavik sentenced three men to five years in prison last month. They attempted to smuggle nine liters of cocaine base into the country. They hid the substance in two boxes of red wine that were in a Peugeot car that one of them traveled with on Norræna.</p><p>The smuggling was uncovered when Norræna arrived in Seyðisfjörður in November. The police replaced the narcotics

Hafði fengið sér tvo bjóra og „tvær línur“

The District Court of South Iceland has sentenced a man to nine months in prison for driving a vehicle while deprived of his driving licence and unfit to operate it due to the influence of narcotic and addictive substances.

Földu tæp tvö tonn af dópi undir káli

<p>Police officers found a large quantity of drugs in a pickup truck that was stopped on Saturday. 900 kilograms of ketamine and 700 kilograms of methamphetamine were found hidden under cabbage in the bed of the truck.</p><p>The driver said he had agreed to transport the drugs in exchange for payment of 100,000 baht. That is equivalent to just under 400,000 krónur. He now faces a minimum of fiftee

Harpa reið og sorgmædd: „Kerfið brást þessum föður og hans fjölskyldu“

<img alt="" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" height="667" src="https://www.dv.is/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Harpa-Hildiberg-3-1024x683-1.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 15px;" width="1000" /><p>Harpa Hildiberg Böðvarsdóttir, former union representative of Samtaka aðstandenda og fíknisjúkra, says she was filled with deep anger and sorrow when she read the announcement that Kjartan

Kókaínið og önnur eiturlyf vinsælust hjá stuðningsmönnum City

<img alt="" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" height="667" src="https://www.dv.is/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/GettyImages-1418496769-1024x683.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 15px;" width="1000" /><p>Manchester City had the most drug-related incidents at its matches last year, according to police data in England and Wales. A total of 60 incidents were recorded at Etihad Stadium, whi

Þrír vistaðir í fangaklefa og einn fluttur á bráðamóttöku

A man was taken to the emergency department after he fell down stairs in an apartment building in district 111. Three people were placed in a holding cell on suspicion of the sale and distribution of narcotics in downtown Reykjavik.

Maður handtekinn fyrir eignaspjöll og hótanir

<p>A man was arrested in Kópavogur for damaging people's property and threatening them, according to the police log of the Capital Area Police.</p>Four spent the night in the Capital Area Police detention cells this morning.Ruv.is / Anton Brink<p>In addition to him, three others spent the night in police detention this morning, all suspected of drug sales. No one was injured in a single-vehicle ac

Stafræn útilokun þeirra er glíma við fíkn

<img alt="" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" height="1024" src="https://www.dv.is/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/jadon-kelly-Qo_2hhoqC3k-unsplash-768x1024.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 15px;" width="768" /><p>Vulnerable groups in society are exposed to digital exclusion, and this problem is becoming increasingly urgent as the digital revolution advances. Nowadays, it is hardly poss

Myndskeið: Hringdi í Trump á slysstað

Golfer Tiger Woods called U.S. President Donald Trump before he was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs after a car rollover last week.

Gripinn með fíkniefni í bíl um borð í Norrænu

A passenger who arrived in the country on the ferry Norræna on Friday was arrested after a considerable quantity of narcotics was found in his car. He was remanded in custody and is being held at Hólmsheiði Prison.

Í tveggja vikna gæsluvarðhald vegna umfangsmikils smygls

<p>Police arrested a man upon the arrival of Norræna in the country on Friday when drugs were found in his car. Police do not disclose how large the quantity was, but say it was substantial.</p><p>The drugs were found during a search by customs officers and police of the man's car. He was arrested and questioned. The following day, police requested that the man be remanded in custody for two weeks