German 'motorway sniper' arrested - Telegraph The weekend operation was coordinated by Germany's national crime-fighting agency, the Bundeskriminalamt, which confirmed that the suspected sniper worked as a driver for a haulage company. The agency said that the 57-year-old man is "suspected of firing on car transporters, other vehicles and buildings from the motorway in over 700 cases." A cache of firearms has been seized by police and sent for forensic examination, the agency said. The suspect, who lived in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia appeared in court on Monday morning and was remanded in custody. The sniper has been sought since 2008 when bulletholes were first discovered in car transporters. In one case, a female driver was shot and seriously injured, police said. Last year, 9mm ammunition was used for the first time, significantly increasing the potential threat. Previously, the sniper had used smaller .22 inch ammunition. Authorities quadrupled the reward for information about the shootings to 100,000 euros. The police investigation involved collecting license plate data and comparing this with the routes of trucks that had been attacked, according to the German public broadcaster SWR. Police also collected data from mobile phone masts by the autobahn, SWR reported. Most of the sniper attacks took place in southern and western Germany, but there were also motorway shootings in Belgium and Austria.