VIENNA—An Austrian who allegedly blackmailed Red Bull by threatening to put excrement in its energy drinks was behind bars Thursday after a sting operation straight out of the movies, police said. The 47-year-old man, who has not been named, thought he was meeting someone from Red Bull with a bag full of money late on Wednesday. Instead he was arrested by an armed police unit. "This was no amateur," local police chief Herrmann Rechberger told a news conference. "The money in the package was real and it was in a black bag, just as he had demanded. He gave instructions by phone and SMS." He said that the suspect kept changing the location for th...
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