The Mega Merged Drug Busts Thread

Gov. Bush and his short memory...

I especially love his comments about scripts taking more lives than heroin and cocaine. Wasn't it his daughter who was addicted to Xanax and got arrested for calling in fake scripts?

Edge80 said:

What is it with pizzeria workers and drugs? I myself work at a pizzeria and know many other drug users that also work in the pizza field.

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Well you must be selling pizzas with that *extra* topping.

Major Parker held on cocaine charges

By BRYAN APP
Alligator Writer

Major Parker, a former Gators basketball team captain and current UF coaching staff member, was arrested Tuesday on federal drug charges, federal court records state.

Jerry Sanford, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney in Gainesville, said Parker was arrested at approximately 3 p.m. Tuesday on charges of possession with intent to distribute cocaine.

If convicted, the charge could carry a sentence of five to 40 years, Sanford said.

As part of a sting operation, records state, a Gainesville Police Department undercover officer met with Farrah Stephanie Moise in November and early December and arranged to buy one-half kilogram of cocaine.

On Tuesday, Parker was observed delivering a white shopping bag to Moise, the complaint read.

Moise allegedly gave the bag, which contained approximately 500 grams of cocaine, to the officer in exchange for $12,800, which Parker then received in return, the complaint said.

According to the complaint, Parker and Moise also were involved in deliveries of cocaine to an undercover officer in November.

After spending the night in the Alachua County Jail, Parker and Moise made an initial appearance before a federal magistrate judge Wednesday afternoon, Deputy U.S. Marshal John Hallman said.

Hallman said Parker was released after his appearance on $100,000 bond.
Parker served as a forward and team captain for the Gators during their national championship-game run in 2000 and was one of seven players in school history to serve as team captain twice.

GPD spokesman Sgt. Keith Kameg would not comment, citing insufficient information.

Parker, 26, was a member of Coach Billy Donovan’s first recruiting class at UF and began this season in his second year serving as the Gators’ assistant to the head coach.


http://www.alligator.org/edit/news/issues/stories/041208parker.html

79-year-old caught with heroin on flight to NY
10/12/2004 - 17:07:35

A 79-year-old woman has been caught attempting to smuggle heroin out of Colombia on a flight to New York, police said today.

The Colombian woman, whose name was not released, was arrested yesterday at Bogota’s El Dorado Airport after inspectors found 2.8 kilograms of heroin in her bag, said Col. Nicolas Munoz, chief of airport police.

The woman was the oldest “mule”, as drug couriers are called, to be captured at the airport, police said.

So far this year, 107 people have been arrested at the airport for attempting to smuggle drugs, including 74 Colombians and 33 foreigners.

A total of 2,036 kilograms of cocaine and 155 kilograms of heroin has been seized at the airport this year.

Colombia is by far the world’s biggest producer of cocaine and also produces much of the world’s heroin.

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Mule caught w/ 4 million in coke crashes through Canada border to get away!

ARRESTED MAN COULD BE MULE: RCMP

It would be a good guess that the man caught carrying an estimated $12 million worth of cocaine in Aldergrove on Nov. 21 is just a cog in an elaborate drug scheme, says Quesnel RCMP Staff Sgt. Keith Hildebrand.

"My educated guess is that this person was a mule, working for somebody else," said Hildebrand. "Usually, with those levels of cocaine, you're dealing with some form of organized crime.

"It's been my experience that those kinds of instances, where they're coming through the bottlenecks, it's usually someone on the real low end of a drug chain that's doing it," he added.

Robert Norton Allaire, 67, of Quesnel was arrested and charged with importing a controlled substance and possession for the purpose of trafficking.

Allaire was first noticed by U.S. Customs officials in the Bellingham area. Once Allaire started towards the border, they pulled him over and asked for identification.

The driver made a dash for the Canadian border, drove over a median and curb and across a lawn before entering Canada. Allaire was arrested in Aldergrove roughly 45 minutes later.

Hildebrand said Quesnel RCMP's investigation will support Langley's.

"He wasn't known to us," he said. "I've got very few details on it. We're doing a little bit of follow up here because it was brought to our attention. They're still trying to sort it out ( in Langley and the U.S. )"

Hildebrand said he contacted Langley immediately after he heard of the incident to see if his department could go in and start doing some checks and "not be stepping on their toes."

Hildebrand could not confirm any rumours about Allaire's business associations in Quesnel, but added that would be something they would look at.

"We'll have to do our follow up investigation to see if it will lead anywhere," he said. "But usually those kinds of people don't really know who they're working for. They just get a large amount of cash to get something through the border, which is usually the weak link in the drug chain."

The show cause hearing for the Quesnel man accused of crashing the border into Canada with more than $4 million worth of cocaine was put over until Dec. 6.

ive always been curious as to what type "deals" these MULES have with their drug boss..i mean, say the mule, by a shitty course of luck, gets their drug stash snagged at the border or wherever, what happens then??does the boss just call it a loss and thats it??im sure its different for every dealer/situation, but still..

Who trusts a MULE will four million dollars of cocaine?!

-=ReD-hAzE=- said:

Who trusts a MULE will four million dollars of cocaine?!

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The kind of person who's not stupid enough to smuggle a couple of hundred keys of coke across an international border themselves, and who has a fearsome enough reputation that people are too scared to rip-off.

wow that would be a big decision to make if you got pulled over right at the border....do i run or do i stay and act cool?????yea the boss must watch the "mules" progress over the border to ensure he doesnt do something "stupid". Its wierd the heading to article says 4 million and news article says 12 million... wtf...either way thats alot of fucking blow.

Yeah i dont get it, it says 12 million at the begining and 4 million at the end. I bet that guy will be in prison for awhile.

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Ouch, caught! 170 kilo's of molly, 20,000 pills, 4 presses and more!

Police Uncover a Cache of Drugs, Weapons and Cash in Residential Areas
TORONTO, Nov. 29 /CNW/ - Throughout the day on Friday, November 26, 2004
police executed search warrants at residences in the Toronto area and
uncovered a large cache of drugs, weapons and cash. Five suspects have been
arrested and are facing a variety of charges.
This investigation was conducted by the Combined Forces Special
Enforcement Unit (CFSEU) and the searches were assisted by the Toronto Police
Service - 42 Division, Emergency Task Force, Clandestine Lab Unit and
Intelligence Services.
Seized at two houses and one apartment on Cascaden Street, Bellrock
Crescent, and Corporate Drive in Toronto was:

- Approximately 170 kilograms of suspected MDMA (Ecstasy) powder and
suspected mixing agents
- 20,362 Ecstasy pills
- Four electric pill presses
- Two semi-automatic handguns (.40 calibre and .32 calibre)
- A small quantity of ammunition
- Approximately $60,000 Canadian cash
- Approximately $24,000 US cash

The powder seized is capable of producing hundreds of thousands of
Ecstasy pills, and the four pill presses could produce more than 28,000 pills
per hour or more than 600,000 pills in one day.
According to the Officer in Charge of the CFSEU, Chief Superintendent Ben
Soave, "It is disconcerting to find Ecstasy - a drug targeted at our youth -
along with deadly weapons in residential areas of our community. Organized
crime, drugs, guns, and violence go hand in hand."
Facing charges of Production of Controlled Substance and Possession for
the Purpose of Trafficking are:

PANG Lap Sang (M) age 37, xxxx xxxx, Toronto

LIN Qiao Mei (F) age 26, xxxx xxxx, Toronto

CHEN Min (M) age 21, xxxx xxxx, Toronto

WU Shang En (M) age 36, xxxx xxxx, Toronto

LIN Cheng Jian (M) age 28, xxxx xxxx, Toronto.

LIN Cheng Jian is also charged with firearms offences in relation to the
two seized handguns and ammunition.

All accused appeared in court at Old City Hall Monday November 29, 2004
for Bail Hearings. The investigation is continuing.

The Greater Toronto Area CFSEU consists of members of the Toronto Police
Service, York, Peel, and Durham Regional Police, Royal Canadian Mounted
Police, Ontario Provincial Police, Canada Border Services Agency, Federal
Dept. of Justice, Canadian Security and Intelligence Service, and the Criminal
Intelligence Service of Ontario. Further information on CFSEU can be found at
www.cfseu.org.

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870 kilos of mdma powder and pills , ouch!

Pair arrested in Europe over record ecstasy haul
Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty says two men have been arrested in Belgium over Australia's largest haul of the party drug ecstasy.

Commissioner Keelty has not revealed the men's nationalities but says they are more significant to investigations than the two Australian men who have already faced court over the seizure.

About 820 kilograms of ecstasy tablets and powder were found hidden inside a pizza oven at Sydney airport last month.

Commissioner Keelty says there could be a link between the latest haul and more than 360 kilograms of ecstasy that was seized in Adelaide earlier this year.

He says it is transnational crime at its best.

"This is in one instance $200 million worth of profit that would go back to transnational crime," Commissioner Keelty said.

"If you weigh up the three major operations on ecstasy this year, you're talking in the order of nearly $500 million of drugs that could have entered the streets of Australia and the money and proceeds of which would have gone back ultimately to Europe."

European syndicate

Commissioner Keelty says the recent attempts to smuggle ecstasy into Australia are the work of a major European drug syndicate.

He says the method of smuggling the drugs in industrial ovens links the operation back to a syndicate in Europe.

He says while the links in Australia are not clear, the European connections are more significant.

"Well certainly the ones in Europe are higher up the food chain ... in terms of the significance and the origins of the drugs but there is still a lot of the work to be done yet," he said.

"It is now obviously a major international operation.

"We anticipate that there will be further arrests in Europe, but of course we are working as best we can with the overseas authorities to maximise their opportunities to make those arrests."

Court

Two men arrested over the haul yesterday were remanded in custody in a Sydney court today.

Zacharia O'Brien, 32, from New Italy on the state's north coast, appeared via video link when the matter briefly came before Sydney Central Local Court today.

Robert Drury, 54, from Kings Cross opted not to appear before the court.

Both men have been charged with possessing a prohibited imported narcotic of commercial quantity and conspiring to import the MDMA into Australia.

The men will face court again on January 19.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma (Reuters) -- A routine traffic stop turned into a drug bust when Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers found 610 pounds of marijuana stashed in four coffins.

Authorities say Timothy Hynd and Robert Dean Harper were charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute before being released on Monday.

The arrest occurred on Sunday, highway patrol spokesman Lt. Brandon Kopepasah said, after troopers stopped a truck traveling slightly above the speed limit near the rural city of Salisaw.

The men consented to a search, and trained dogs "hit" on the cargo section of the truck, he said.

"They unloaded 22 caskets," Kopepasah said. "You had to unload all those caskets and the very front caskets were loaded with marijuana."

An attorney for one of the men said his client was unaware there was marijuana in the caskets and was only delivering them.

"He didn't check inside the caskets for drugs -- would you?" attorney Donn Baker said.

Pair arrested over ecstasy haul

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11707535%5E421,00.html

Pair arrested over ecstasy haul
December 16, 2004

TWO men have been arrested in Sydney following the seizure of 161 kilograms of the drug ecstasy with a street value of $40 million.

Bust ... in another recent seizure $200 million of ecstasy was found, the largest haul of its kind in Australia / File
One of the men was in an undisclosed Sydney hospital and will face a court hearing at his bedside later today, sources said.

The other man was denied bail in Central Local Court today and remanded in custody until his next hearing in March next year.

Both men were charged with importing drugs.

The haul of 800,000 tablets of the party drug was uncovered in a shipping container sent from Belgium which arrived in Sydney on November 4, authorities said.

The arrests yesterday followed an investigation by the Australian Crime Commission (ACC), WA Police, Federal Police, NSW Police, Customs and the NSW Crime Commission.

No details were available on where the men were arrested or how police tracked down the haul.

Nor was it clear why one of the men was in hospital.

It was unclear what connection the arrests had with the discovery of an undisclosed quantity of the same drug in a car in North Sydney last night.

"The ACC has been focused on gathering intelligence and conducting investigations nationally into serious and organised criminal networks and this result is a testament to the excellent work that is being conducted by Australia's law enforcement agencies," ACC chairman Mick Keelty said.

In November, two people were charged after $200 million of ecstasy was detected in the largest seizure of its kind to be made in Australia.

In that bust, which was also overseen by Customs and Federal Police, 820 kilograms of MDMA, or ecstasy, tablets and powder were found in a container air freighted from Germany to Sydney on October 15.

AAP

Cops find marijuana hidden in caskets

Cops find marijuana hidden in caskets

nwitimes.com
Thursday, December 16, 2004

SALLISAW, Okla. (AP) -- Talk about your killer weed.

Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers found 610 pounds of marijuana hidden in caskets being hauled in a truck stopped near this eastern Oklahoma town.

The driver, Timothy G. Hynd, 26, and his passenger, Robert Dean Harper, told a trooper they were working for a Tucson, Ariz., casket company and their destination was Atlanta. They were pulled over early Friday for going 6 mph over the speed limit.

The marijuana was found after troopers were given permission to search the truck.

Hynd and Harper were charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and were freed on bond Monday. Both men said they had no idea there was marijuana in their cargo.

"Hynd is 26 and has never been in any kind of trouble," said his attorney, Donn Baker. "He was just delivering caskets for a living. He didn't check inside the caskets for drugs -- would you?"

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Man picks bad spot for alleged drug deal
Associated Press
December 15, 2004

NEZPERCE, Idaho - A man picked the wrong location for an alleged drug deal. Telling an eyewitness to mind his own business was also not a good idea. It was in front of the home of Lewis County's sheriff-elect, who was sitting on his front porch.

"They really picked the wrong house to be in front of," said Phil Steen, who will be sworn into office next month.

Steen had only lived in the home about three weeks when he decided to enjoy the Saturday evening air. But some suspicious activity on the street impaired his view.

Steen saw what he thought was a drug deal in the street. When those involved noticed him watching, they simply told him to "look away," Steen said.

Instead of looking elsewhere, Steen ran the suspects' license plates. It led to a search of two houses and a vehicle, then the arrest of James MacArthur, 46.

MacArthur is charged with possession of marijuana with intent to deliver, unlawful possession of a firearm and possession of drug paraphernalia.

About 16 grams of marijuana was confiscated, along with a rifle and a shotgun, Steen said. The investigation is continuing.

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€11m of cocaine seized in Ireland

Gardai (Irish for Cops/Police) in Dublin have seized cocaine with an estimated street value of €10 million.

Detectives from the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation stopped a car on the Naas Road this afternoon and after searching the car found €4 million worth of coke.

In a follow-up search at a nearby premises another €6 million worth of cocaine was found. A man in his 30's has been arrested.

In a seperate incident, another man was arrested at Dublin airport after he was caught with a suitcase containing cocaine with a street value of €1 million.


That might be my plans for some nice coke for new years out the window, hopefully my connections aren't affected. Pretty big bust.

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regarding the one with weed in the casket...were there any bodies inside the casket?? or were they just empty?