The District Court of Reykjavík has acquitted the Icelandic state and the Directorate of Immigration in the case of a foreign man who was deported. The District Court says that the decision to ban re-entry for 14 years is not out of proportion, but the man was sentenced to three and a half years in prison for a major drug related offence in 2021.
An American man has been sentenced to 15 months in prison, including 12 months on probation, for his part in the importation of 15.1 kg of marijuana to Iceland in May. In the Reykjanes District Court’s verdict, the story of the man who claimed to have come here as a treatment counsellor for drug-addicts sounds improbable and bears the hallmark of being false in all main points. In the story, Ms. T., Costastal Connect and an old childhood friend, Frankie Sims, who had a bag in a safe at Keflavik Airport, are included among others.
Police are investigating the death of a man in his fifties. He was found dead in an industrial area in Hafnarfjörður early Saturday morning. The death was reported to police at the sixth hour Saturday morning.
A man from Switzerland has been sentenced to ten months in prison for the importation of a considerable amount of cocaine into the country, but the substances had the concentration of 30 to 56%. He transported them to the country hidden in head pillow and in the sponge layers in a backpack and a winter coat.
Wednesday morning started normally for Mateusz Dariusz Lasek. He set off for work as usual, planning to drop his young son, Jakub Mateusz, off at Víðivellir pre-school in Hafnarfjörður en-route. They