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Father and son charged with heroin supply and firearm offences in West Hoxton

A father and son were arrested yesterday after police searched a home in Sydney’s west and found 350 grams of heroin— with an estimated street value of $100,000.

About 12pm on Wednesday, a 58-year-old man was stopped in a shopping complex on Hoxton Park Rd, West Hoxton, and arrested.

Detectives from Strike Force McDonnell— a taskforce established to target heroin supply in the Liverpool and West Hoxton areas— then executed a search warrant at a home in West Hoxton.

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During the search police also located a replica firearm, ammunition, 355 grams of cannabis, $8,880 in cash and up to $100,000 worth of tools and miscellaneous items, suspected to have been stolen.

He was taken to Green Valley Police Station and has been charged with multiple offences including the supply of a prohibited drug, supplying on an ongoing basis, dealing with proceeds of crime and possessing ammunition without holding a license.

He will appear at Liverpool Local Court today.

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Police also arrested his 34-year-old son during the search.

He was taken to Fairfield Police Station where he was charged with the supply of a prohibited drug, supplying on an ongoing basis, assisting drug premises and participating in a criminal group.


He will appear at Fairfield Local Court today.


Source:http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...n/news-story/0c91da2160acf28a33941cc74e4387f8
 
Socialite Kirsty Dayment taken into custody ahead of sentence for drug supply

Eastern suburbs socialite turned drug dealer Kirsty Dayment​ took off her jewellery, surrendered her designer handbag, and blew a kiss to her family.

Then she followed two Corrective Services officers down to the cells at the Downing Centre.

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Judge Sarah Huggett​ revoked Dayment's bail in the NSW District Court on Tuesday, after giving her lawyers time over the weekend to discuss an element of one of the drug charges against her.

Dayment, 35, has pleaded guilty to supplying 85 grams of cocaine, supplying a smaller quantity of an illicit drug, and knowingly take part in supplying a large commercial quantity of MDMA​.

Her barrister April Francis told the court there was evidence Dayment was actively trying to leave the Coogee apartment she shared with her boyfriend and co-offender Nicholas Riganias at the time of her arrest.

Her role in the MDMA supply charge is only her knowledge of the drug being stored in the apartment, the court heard.

But Judge Huggett noted Dayment's fingerprints were found on the drug packaging, describing hers as a "fairly vital role in the supply".

In written sentencing submissions for Dayment, barrister Ian Lloyd, QC, said her offending was less serious "given the offender appears to have been acting at the behest of her boyfriend, the co-offender Riganias".​

​Mr Lloyd wrote that Dayment was of previous good character, and that the 61 days in custody after her arrest had taught her a "timely and salutary lesson".

He said Dayment was not motivated by personal greed.

"Rather, her motives appear to be repaying debt from a failed business and also pleasing a new partner after fleeing from an abusive domestic relationship."

Dayment was suffering from post traumatic stress disorder at the time of the crimes, Mr Lloyd said.

"The submission is that the offender is very much at a cross roads in her life, having spent some time in custody prior to being bailed.

"She is now moving towards a total rehabilitation."

Mr Lloyd had argued that Dayment be sentenced to an intensive corrections order – a form of house arrest – at a hearing in March, noting she was three months pregnant.

Judge Huggett quickly rejected that submission and said Dayment would have to give birth in custody.

But last week the court heard Dayment had a miscarriage, and the judge said she would consider that upon sentencing.

Police stormed Riganias' and Dayment's apartment on Arden Street, Coogee, in July 2015 after a six-month investigation into drug supply in the eastern suburbs.

Riganias has pleaded guilty to a range of drug offences, including supplying 1.36 kilograms of MDMA​.

He now works as a sweeper in custody, court documents said.

The couple will be sentenced later this month.


Source: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/socialite...sentence-for-drug-supply-20170411-gvij2y.html

Sydney socialite turned drug dealer Kirsty Dayment jailed for at least three years and three months

There was no reaction from Sydney socialite Kirsty Dayment as she was sentenced to a minimum of three years and three months in jail.

The 35-year-old, who describes herself as a model, actress and dancer, smiled at a couple of supporters as she was led back to the cells at Downing Centre Local Court today.

Dayment pleaded guilty to supplying 85 grams of cocaine and taking part in the supply of 1.36 kilograms of MDMA following a six month sting by NSW Police.

She was arrested along with her boyfriend Nicholas Riganias when officers stormed their apartment on Arden Street at Coogee in July 2015.

Earlier that day Dayment received a text message from Riganias which read “any gear left?”

Another said “can you get new pearl today?”

The couple used the code words “pearl”, “Canberra” and “fish & chips” to describe cocaine.

Dayment replied: “Babe I don’t want to go downstairs there are cops everywhere.”

Despite her concerns she sold cocaine to another man who cannot be named for legal reasons.

Dayment’s lawyer had initially argued for a sentence to be served under supervision in the community, noting she was three months pregnant.

Judge Sarah Huggett rejected that, telling her she would have to give birth in custody.

But the court was later told she had miscarried.

The judge today acknowledged the trauma that would have caused.

But she also found Dayment “took an active and at times lead role in the supply…”

“She was not acting in a vacuum unaware and ignorant of what was going on,” she said.

Judge Huggett was also critical of Dayment’s supposed remorse finding “she has sort at times to blame others and to minimise her involvement.”

She will be eligible for parole in 2020.

Her former boyfriend Riganias was handed a minimum 4.5 year sentence and with time already served will be eligible for parole the same year.

http://www.9news.com.au/national/20...ler-kirsty-dayment-jailed#BbtlrCZDblbqqrPw.99
 
Prominent Brisbane restaurateur Daniel Milos bailed on cocaine, money laundering charges

DANIEL Milos, the heroin dealer turned up-market Brisbane restaurateur and now alleged cocaine kingpin, has been released on bail.

The 40-year-old chef, whose younger brother and business partner Peter was bludgeoned to death at a home in Brisbane’s affluent inner east in 2014, was arrested on Friday as part of one of the largest cocaine stings in Queensland history.

He has been charged with an array of offences, including drug trafficking and money laundering, and was held in custody overnight Friday, before being bailed by a magistrate on Saturday morning.

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Leaving court, he told reporters that it would be “business as usual” on Saturday at Mariosarti, his celebrated restaurant in the leafy riverside suburb of Toowong, that has played host to many a politician and celebrity in his time at the helm.

Milos’ social media accounts are littered with pictures of celebrities, athletes and politicians, among them celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay and Queensland boxer Jeff Horn.

There is no allegation any of them were aware of his alleged drug-dealing.

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Some of Australia’s highest profile Liberal Party politicians, including former prime minister John Howard and former Queensland premier Campbell Newman also feature on his social media history.

Last year, the restaurant was to host a $300 per head Liberal Party fundraiser with foreign minister Julie Bishop as keynote speaker, before it was abruptly moved.

Both he and his head chef, Ryan McIver, are alleged to have been using the restaurant to deal cocaine, in addition, on Milos’ part, to laundering drug money.

In 11 simultaneous raids across south east Queensland on Friday, including on Milos’ home and at Mariosarti, police seized cocaine and ice with an estimated street value of $1 million.

When police swooped on Milos, the key target of their investigation, as he drove along a southern Brisbane road on Friday morning, he was allegedly found in possession of approximately $100,000 worth of the illicit drug.

7 News reported Milos used restaurant terms such as ragu, half-feed, full feed and table of eight as code language to deal cocaine.

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The main word for cocaine, the network reported, was “battle”, which is also the personalised numberplate of his luxury car.

Milos served jail time for heroin dealing back in 2000, before reinventing himself as a celebrated chef and prominent Brisbane business owner.

On Saturday morning, Magistrate Judith Daley granted both Milos and his head chef McIver bail.

The latter has been charged with trafficking and three counts of supplying drugs.

The two men will still be able to communicate for work purposes.

Outside court, Milos’ solicitor Adam Dwyer indicated his client would fight the charge.

“This has been a very stressful experience for everyone concerned, my client, his family,” he said.

“We are only at the beginning, the police have given us very little detail at this stage.”

The pair are due to reappear on May 8.

Milos’ brother Peter was violently killed at a Morningside home in May 2014.

James Thomas Howell was charged with his murder but found not guilty by a jury in February.


Source: http://www.news.com.au/finance/busi...s/news-story/60db4d5fcb69f4858cef55ffa9123621
 
German woman, 49, and Tunisian lover, 37, charged with hiding 4kg of cocaine in their suitcases

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PHOTOGRAPHS of the German woman and her Tunisian-born lover accused of importing 4kg of cocaine in their suitcase linings at Easter can be revealed for the first time.

Snjezana Stein, 49, and Sami Trabelsi, 37, appeared in Central Local Court on Wednesday charged with importing a commercial quantity of the border controlled drug.

Police say the drug allegedly secreted in their suitcases into Sydney Airport would be worth up to $1.2 million on Australian streets.

Appearing via audiovisual link from Silverwater Women’s Correctional Centre, Snjezana Stein spoke through a German interpreter to Magistrate Greg Grogin.

Her long blonde hair draped over a prison green T-shirt, Ms Stein appeared nervous as she said “danke schon” [thank you in German] repeatedly after being told she had been refused bail.

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Her co-accused, Mr Trabelsi, appeared by video from Parklea Correctional Centre and spoke through an Arabic interpreter.

However, it is believed Trabelsi, who also speaks German, is also a German citizen.

The couple, who on social media accounts feature in photographs accompanied by love heart emojis, appear to have known each other for some time and travelled together before flying to Australia.

In one photograph on the Facebook account of Ms Stein’s adult son, he appears in a photograph which he has captioned ‘Family” with the couple and Mr Trabelsi’s arm around him.

Ms Stein and Mr Trabelsi embarked on a 20-hour flight on April 14 to Sydney from Dusseldorf, where the Croatian-born technical officer lives in a northern suburb.

Arriving on the evening of Easter Saturday, the pair was selected by customs officers for baggage examination.

Officers “found abnomalies” in the suitcase linings and powder allegedly wrapped in plastic which later tested positive for cocaine.

Australian Federal Police are testing the exact weight and purity of the cocaine.

Magistrate Grogin refused both Trabelsi and Stein bail, and remanded them to appear again by video link from their respective prisons in June.

Both accused have been registered at the German Consulate in Sydney following their arrest.


Source: http://www.news.com.au/national/cou...s/news-story/273499fe8f494dc23ffb39dda63262bd
 
I am sure plenty do. Drug smuggling is a numbers game. Some shipments would come in by not be heavily scrutinised. mules who are cool calm and collected would breeze through airport customs without drawing attention to themselves where as the less confident mules would look nervous and give out a demeanour of being up to something illegal.

I know customs try to be thorough and x ray as many bags coming in as possible but i've seen it at Tullamarine 4 or 5 flights arrive at once and customs are over worked so passengers get passed the customs gates without their bag going in a x-ray.
 
You can't tell me consumer you haven't flown international and thought once you arrived home "gosh customs on both ends were pretty lax i could have got away with smuggling something"

I'm not saying i would try to smuggle drugs given the death penalty is enforced in most of Asia but the times i've travelled thorough South East Asia i have never been patted down or anything boarding a flight.
 
Adelaide woman Cassandra Sainsbury arrested in Colombia with drugs

A young Adelaide woman on a working holiday in Colombia has been arrested with 5.8 kilograms of cocaine in her luggage, her family says.

Cassandra Sainsbury was detained for drug trafficking on April 11 at El Dorado International Airport in Bogota on her way back to Australia.

Her sister, Khala Sainsbury, says the 22-year-old personal trainer and volunteer firefighter is facing up to 25 years in jail "for a crime she did not commit".

The family has started an online campaign to raise funds for legal fees.

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"Cassie would never do anything like what she has been accused of," Khala writes on the Fundrazr page.

The cocaine was allegedly hidden inside 15 pairs of headphones Ms Sainsbury bought before her departure.

"They X-rayed her luggage and they found 5.8kg of cocaine concealed in packaging which was meant to be gifts for people for her bridal party and family friends," Khala told The Adelaide Advertiser.

Khala said in the days prior to her flight home "she was with somebody she had met that could speak English and she was sightseeing".

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"He was showing her around," Khala said.

She saw some headphones she was going to buy and give to friends, and, according to Khala, he told her he knew a guy that could get them cheaper.

"She did that and got them handed to her Wednesday morning before she left. She just put them straight into her suitcase."

Ms Sainsbury, who is a volunteer firefighter for South Australia's Country Fire Service (CFS), was in Colombia for a working holiday and was due to be picked up from Adelaide Airport on Good Friday.

She was denied bail at her court appearance and is being held at El Buen Pastor women's prison, Colombia's largest women's prison, which is reportedly heavily overpopulated.

The family is aiming to raise at least $15,000 for legal costs.

Ms Sainsbury became engaged to her partner, Scott Broadbridge, late last year, and the pair were planning to marry early next year.

"Cassie was planning her upcoming wedding to the love of her life. She has her full life ahead of her, and now it's all put on the line because of this," her family says.

Ms Sainsbury's mother, Lisa Evans, said she was "scared to death" for her daughter.

"I'm devastated that my little girl is in this place. Our family just wants her home safe," she writes on FundRazr.

A spokesman for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said it was providing assistance to an Australian woman arrested in Colombia but offered no further details due to privacy.

As of early Monday, almost $2000 had been raised, only 12 per cent of the $15,000 needed.



Source: http://www.smh.com.au/national/adel...d-in-colombia-with-drugs-20170430-gvvyj3.html
 
So she went on a 8 day working holiday to Columbia for personal training? Not sure how this works.

She reluctuntly took 15 pairs of headphones with her and they weighed a total of 5.8kg.

She was open to buying from a stranger.

If I were to know any better she did know what was going on.
 
She is either a complete idiot or knew what she had. Either way she is well and truly fucked
 
She had to have known.. cause if you're a mule you have to deliver the drugs to someone on the other end. Unless they accidentally gave her 10 pounds of cocaine when she just wanted to buy some cheap knock-off headphones (seems unlikely to me).

Plus, she's only British good looking, she overestimated how far blonde would get her in Colombia.
 
Adelaide woman Cassandra Sainsbury arrested in Colombia with drugs

A young Adelaide woman on a working holiday in Colombia has been arrested with 5.8 kilograms of cocaine in her luggage, her family says.

Cassandra Sainsbury was detained for drug trafficking on April 11 at El Dorado International Airport in Bogota on her way back to Australia.

Her sister, Khala Sainsbury, says the 22-year-old personal trainer and volunteer firefighter is facing up to 25 years in jail "for a crime she did not commit".

The family has started an online campaign to raise funds for legal fees.

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"Cassie would never do anything like what she has been accused of," Khala writes on the Fundrazr page.

The cocaine was allegedly hidden inside 15 pairs of headphones Ms Sainsbury bought before her departure.

"They X-rayed her luggage and they found 5.8kg of cocaine concealed in packaging which was meant to be gifts for people for her bridal party and family friends," Khala told The Adelaide Advertiser.

Khala said in the days prior to her flight home "she was with somebody she had met that could speak English and she was sightseeing".

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"He was showing her around," Khala said.

She saw some headphones she was going to buy and give to friends, and, according to Khala, he told her he knew a guy that could get them cheaper.

"She did that and got them handed to her Wednesday morning before she left. She just put them straight into her suitcase."

Ms Sainsbury, who is a volunteer firefighter for South Australia's Country Fire Service (CFS), was in Colombia for a working holiday and was due to be picked up from Adelaide Airport on Good Friday.

She was denied bail at her court appearance and is being held at El Buen Pastor women's prison, Colombia's largest women's prison, which is reportedly heavily overpopulated.

The family is aiming to raise at least $15,000 for legal costs.

Ms Sainsbury became engaged to her partner, Scott Broadbridge, late last year, and the pair were planning to marry early next year.

"Cassie was planning her upcoming wedding to the love of her life. She has her full life ahead of her, and now it's all put on the line because of this," her family says.

Ms Sainsbury's mother, Lisa Evans, said she was "scared to death" for her daughter.

"I'm devastated that my little girl is in this place. Our family just wants her home safe," she writes on FundRazr.

A spokesman for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said it was providing assistance to an Australian woman arrested in Colombia but offered no further details due to privacy.

As of early Monday, almost $2000 had been raised, only 12 per cent of the $15,000 needed.



Source: http://www.smh.com.au/national/adel...d-in-colombia-with-drugs-20170430-gvvyj3.html

So her seeing these headphones packaged in black didn't look at all suss?

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CASSANDRA SAINSBURY’S TIMELINE TO HELL
Wednesday, April 3: Flies out alone to Colombia on a working holiday. Her fiance, Scott Broadbridge, says she was travelling because she helped manage a commercial cleaning business with national and international clients.

Thursday, April 4-Tuesday April 9: While in Colombia, she befriends a man who speaks English and who shows her around. When she finds some headphone sets she says she wants to take home as presents for her family and wedding party, the man says he knows someone who can get them cheaper.

Wednesday, April 10: Ms Sainsbury is handed the parcel containing the headphones and places it into her suitcase.

Thursday, April 11: Ms Sainsbury is arrested for drug trafficking at El Dorado International Airport in Bogota after 5.8kg of cocaine is found concealed in the packing of the sets of headphones.
She is refused bail and detained in El Buen Pastor jail, notorious for its squalid conditions and prison overcrowding.
Her family says she was due to continue on her working holiday to make presentations in London, France and Hong Kong.

Friday, April 26: Ms Sainsbury’s sister, Khala, sets up a crowd-funding page on FundRazr, seeking donations from the public to help pay for legal fees.


Source: http://www.news.com.au/travel/trave...l/news-story/e2e73859ebef5720d9c69fbf699c5cde

Cleaning business ay?
 
Timeline to hell? What about the 6 months prior to this that she's been living large on that nose candy money?

Should be "The Recent Timeline of What Was a Roller-coaster of emotion, sexual passion, and blowing cocaine up each other's asses"

or, alternatively,

"How I fucked my life up so badly I had to attempt to smuggle 5 kilos of blow just to get back to zero"

We may never know the real story... but check in every day for the next month as this story is covered incessantly!
 
Photo of alleged drug haul emerges as fears are raised over Cassandra Sainsbury’s safety in Colombia

AN EXPERT on the South American drug trade says there was no way Cassandra Sainsbury would have the connections to sell almost $2 million worth of cocaine, and someone in Australia must have been waiting to receive it.
Rusty Young, who lived in Colombia for eight years and is about to release a book Colombiano about the country’s child soldiers, said the South Australian woman’s story didn’t add up.
“Her version of events is not consistent with the way drug rings operate,” Mr Young told news.com.au.

“If you were planting $1 million worth of drugs in someone’s baggage, how were you intending to recover the drugs back in Australia?”
Ms Sainsbury was caught with 5.8kg of cocaine in her luggage, which she thought were boxes of headphones she bought from a local man, her family has said.
Whether Ms Sainsbury knew about the cocaine or not, Mr Young believes someone in Australia would have been waiting for the shipment to come in.

“There’s no way a 22-year-old could have the connections to distribute and sell almost 6kg of cocaine,” he said.
“There must have been someone in Australia to receive those drugs.”
Mr Young also dismissed fears that Ms Sainsbury could be targeted by cartels while imprisoned in Colombia.

“That’s absolute nonsense,” he said. “Cartels don’t run drug mules through airports, they run tonnes of cocaine. There’s no professional Colombian organisation behind this.”
Despite concerns about Ms Sainsbury’s safety, Mr Young said he thought she would be physically safe in the overcrowded El Buen Pastor women’s jail.
“They would have put her in the foreign section with foreign inmates,” he said.

Australian diplomatic staff have also reportedly delivered her a mattress and blanket to use in her cell.
Mr Young said he also thought Ms Sainsbury would get a fair trial in Colombia, although justice would be slow.

Even if she plead guilty, Mr Young said it would probably still take six to nine months for her to go through the justice system. A trial would probably take three years just to reach a verdict and would cost tens of thousands of dollars.
Regardless of whether Ms Sainsbury was guilty or innocent, Mr Young said his thoughts were with her and her family.
“They are in for a long and difficult journey,” he said.

Ms Sainsbury’s family has previously said the 22-year-old travelled to Colombia on April 3 for a working holiday. It’s unclear what visa she was travelling on and what job she was doing overseas. She was arrested at the airport on April 12 on her way home.
There is no working holiday maker visa arrangement between Australia and Colombia, and working visas require Australians to prove they have a skill set Colombians don’t possess.
“The most common work visa would be for English teachers,” Mr Young said.
But Australians can enter Colombia for 90 days as a visitor without a visa.

It has also emerged that Ms Sainsbury was reportedly arrested following a tip-off from international drug agencies and her travel plans had raised suspicions, anti narco trafficking control, Colonel Rodrigo Soler, told The Australian.
The South Australian was arrested minutes before she was due to fly back to Australia from El Dorado International Airport in Bogota.

Colombian police have released a photo of the young Aussie in handcuffs standing in front of a table lined with 18 packages, which Ms Sainsbury thought were headphones she bought as wedding gifts and presents for her friends and family.
Jorge Mendoza, the ports and airports director for Colombia’s anti-narcotic police, says he doubted Ms Sainsbury didn’t know the drugs were hidden inside the packages.
“She could possibly be a drug mule,” Mendoza told ABC radio through an interpreter on Tuesday.

“In going through security we found she had 18 packets inside her luggage, which even before opening it we found covered in plastic.
“Her explanation is not credible. Everyone we catch says they didn’t know it was in their luggage, but they know what they were doing.”
Lieutenant Colonel Jorge Triana, head of the anti-narcotics police at Bogota’s international airport was also sceptical about the Australian’s innocence.

He said Ms Sainsbury’s claims that she was deceived are probably untrue and in any case don’t excuse her actions.
“Everyone who is caught says exactly the same thing,” said Lt Colonel Triana, who added that many foreigners are lured by false promises of fast fortunes.
“But they know what they’re doing.”

As tourism to Colombia has boomed over the past decade, the country’s drug cartels are increasingly recruiting foreigners to smuggle cocaine out of the country. Police have arrested 19 foreign drug mules this year alone, Lt Colonel Triana said.
The Adelaide woman’s family insists she is innocent and was set up by a Colombian man she met after arriving in the South American country on April 3 during a working holiday.

But public comments made by her family about her case may have unwittingly put the 22-year-old in danger, The Australian has reported.
Senior Australian lawyers familiar with the case told the paper that if the cartels found out what Ms Sainsbury’s mother had been saying, she could be in danger inside the notorious El Buen Pastor jail where she is being held.

El Buen Pastor is Bogota’s biggest women’s prison, and inmates live in overcrowded and filthy conditions alongside violent criminals, their children and babies and corrupt guards who steal food brought to prisoners by their families.
Yesterday, Ms Sainsbury’s mother Lisa Evans told KIIS that her daughter was facing a potential jail sentence of between 18 to 25 years, but if she pleaded guilty this would be reduced.

She said the minimum sentence was six years but this could be reduced to four if Ms Sainsbury provided information about the man who gave her the drugs.
Ms Evans said Cassie had trusted the man who gave her the drugs, and he had been acting as her translator in Colombia.
“He had been helping her all week, taking her around and showing her places, and just being a nice guy,” Ms Evans said.

It is understood lawyers in Australia have now advised the family not to make any further public comments and to take down an online fundraising campaign on FundRazr.
The campaign has raised more than $4000 for Ms Sainsbury and remains active, although many of the posts express scepticism about Cassie’s story and point out inconsistencies in what the family has said.

http://www.news.com.au/travel/trave...a/news-story/f6063d24dd95e86f67ea19584dc91876
 
We probably should have made a thread about this chick and her case, I can see more and more things will come out over time.
 
Half a Billion Dollars Worth Opium Poppies in North Carolina Field

1/2 a Billion ? Seriously ? Gross overestimation's like this undermine credibility. If 1/2 acre is worth $500,000,000.00 then Afghanistan crops are worth hundreds of trillions. Raw opium is a long ways away from being refined Heroin


CLAREMONT, NC (WCNC) North Carolina deputies seized an estimated $500 million worth of opium poppies in what’s being called a historic bust.

Catawba County detectives said they found the plants spread across a half-acre adjacent to a Claremont home on Tuesday morning.

A resident in the house, Cody Xiong, was arrested and charged with manufacturing a Schedule II controlled substance and trafficking opium or heroin.

Opium poppies are used to make some of the world’s most addictive drugs, including heroin and opium.

Captain Jason Reid said it’s the first bust of its kind in North Carolina history.

“It’s very intimidating,” he said. “I was overwhelmed just like the rest of the investigators when we came out here today. We weren’t expecting anything this size.”

Captain Reid said they came to the property last week after receiving a tip for a completely different crime.

He said investigators noticed the plants, and they consulted with experts at N.C. State who helped confirm their dangerous nature.
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http://nbc4i.com/2017/05/25/deputie...-worth-opium-poppies-in-north-carolina-field/
 
Seen this all too often lately. They recently got one of my friends MJ crops, they weigh the plant in its entirety (stalks, leaves, rootballs full of dirt and all, lol.)- not the part that will be processed for sale / use. I think they do it to make themselves feel more accomplished, and I'm sure the county makes a pretty penny off of those outlandish charges.
 
Yeah that happens all the time with weed busts here in Australia. And meth busts too, they way over state how much a very large bust is because they work it out at street deals prices not production prices or very high up buying prices etc. So for a 100 kg meth bust they state it's worth 100 million dollars when no one anywhere would be buying 100 kg's of meth and paying that price for it.

Total bullshit to fit in with their ongoing agenda. They wont more funding and they wont to make themselves look like they are on top of illegal drugs, but they aren't at all of course.
 
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