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How music festival goers are smuggling drugs into venues
REVELLERS are hiding illegal drugs at music festival sites weeks before the concert to avoid police and security checks.
With this year’s festival season in full swing, police have also noted festival-goers are resorting to increasingly extreme lengths to smuggle drugs such as ecstasy into venues, including hiding them in their body cavities.
Dealers and users have been caught vising the festival venue days or weeks beforehand and hiding pills in obscure places so they can retrieve them on the day.
Central Metropolitan Region Detective Superintendent Danny Doherty, who’s squad runs drug operations for many major festivals in Sydney, said festival-goers were now using strange and dangerous methods to avoid detection.
“Every year there appears to be more detections taking place and it still doesn’t seem to deter them,” he said.
“We have seen at a number of recent dance festivals an increase in internal concealment, which is obviously a method of not being detected by the drug dog or police.
“But we have seen at recent events that it hasn’t worked. The dogs still pick that up.”
“Obviously people go to all sorts of efforts to get drugs in, including prior concealment or getting it through the fence lines.
“That’s where people might see things and we ask anyone who does see someone acting suspicious at one of these venues to contact us.”
Police sources say some security guards are also suspected of being involved in smuggling drugs into music festivals.
Women were caught smuggling drugs stashed inside condoms and hidden inside their bodies at a New Year’s Day dance festival in The Domain in central Sydney just two weeks ago.
The women were among a record 214 people caught by police with sniffer dogs at the Fuzzy Field Festival, a 50 per cent spike on drug detection from the previous year’s event.
The arrests included several people found with large quantities of illicit drugs, including a 20-year-old woman found with 75 ecstasy tablets, a 21-year-old woman with 50 ecstasy tablets and 19-year old man with 40 ecstasy tablets.
The crackdown came after the death of Georgina Bartter, 19, who was found collapsed at the Harbourlife dance party in November from a suspected drug reaction.
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http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...rugs-into-venues/story-fnpn118l-1227180588904
REVELLERS are hiding illegal drugs at music festival sites weeks before the concert to avoid police and security checks.
With this year’s festival season in full swing, police have also noted festival-goers are resorting to increasingly extreme lengths to smuggle drugs such as ecstasy into venues, including hiding them in their body cavities.
Dealers and users have been caught vising the festival venue days or weeks beforehand and hiding pills in obscure places so they can retrieve them on the day.
Central Metropolitan Region Detective Superintendent Danny Doherty, who’s squad runs drug operations for many major festivals in Sydney, said festival-goers were now using strange and dangerous methods to avoid detection.
“Every year there appears to be more detections taking place and it still doesn’t seem to deter them,” he said.
“We have seen at a number of recent dance festivals an increase in internal concealment, which is obviously a method of not being detected by the drug dog or police.
“But we have seen at recent events that it hasn’t worked. The dogs still pick that up.”
“Obviously people go to all sorts of efforts to get drugs in, including prior concealment or getting it through the fence lines.
“That’s where people might see things and we ask anyone who does see someone acting suspicious at one of these venues to contact us.”
Police sources say some security guards are also suspected of being involved in smuggling drugs into music festivals.
Women were caught smuggling drugs stashed inside condoms and hidden inside their bodies at a New Year’s Day dance festival in The Domain in central Sydney just two weeks ago.
The women were among a record 214 people caught by police with sniffer dogs at the Fuzzy Field Festival, a 50 per cent spike on drug detection from the previous year’s event.
The arrests included several people found with large quantities of illicit drugs, including a 20-year-old woman found with 75 ecstasy tablets, a 21-year-old woman with 50 ecstasy tablets and 19-year old man with 40 ecstasy tablets.
The crackdown came after the death of Georgina Bartter, 19, who was found collapsed at the Harbourlife dance party in November from a suspected drug reaction.
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http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...rugs-into-venues/story-fnpn118l-1227180588904
