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Inside the luxury life of fugitive dark web drug kingpin couple
THEIR case reads like a movie script.
A mum and dad charged with cooking up vast quantities of drugs and distributing them on the internet black market skip bail and reinvent themselves as a well-heeled family in an affluent suburb on the other side of the country.
But the story doesn’t end there.
Instead of lying low, the Gold Coast couple, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, enrol their daughters in one of South Australia’s most exclusive private schools and allegedly reprise their role as Australia’s “dark net drug kingpins”.
Except this time the product is not ice, heroin or cannabis — drugs the pair were allegedly supplying online up until their first arrest in July last year — it’s a psychedelic mushroom rarely found in this country.
The couple (he is 41 and she is 46) were arrested on Monday in spectacular fashion just hours after police released photographs of the nation’s most wanted fugitives and the calls started rolling in to CrimeStoppers.
As The Advertiser exclusively reported, plainclothes detectives descended on the pair as they arrived at Adelaide’s exclusive Walford Anglican School for Girls to collect their two daughters.
Onlookers were reportedly none the wiser as undercover officers captured the couple without incident in full view of parents and students just before 4pm.
Walford is regarded as one of the state’s most prestigious girls’ schools and boarders fork out more than $20,000 in annual fees.
Principal Rebecca Clarke sent a letter to parents to bring them up to speed with the dramatic events and to reassure them that no child was placed at risk during the sting.
According to The Advertiser, which obtained a copy, Ms Clarke explained that “police were required to attend the school grounds”.
“Their attendance was in response to an investigation that does not involve the school or any event or circumstance related to the school,” the letter continued.
“At no stage was there any risk to students, staff or members of the Walford community”.
Police will allege that when they searched the couple’s home in the affluent suburb of Goodwood, they found a “large commercial quantity of the controlled drug psilocybin” — a hallucinogenic mushroom — being grown in plastic tubs.
Sturt Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) Detective Chief Inspector Wayne Overmeyer, told reporters it was “unusual” to discover psilocybin being hydroponically grown in the state.
“(I) want to reiterate the dangers of producing drugs of any kind in the home,” he said.
Psilocybin is a naturally occurring psychedelic compound found in more than 200 species of mushroom and produces mind-altering effects similar to those brought on by ingestion of LSD and DMT.
American counterculture figure Timothy Leary conducted early experiments into the drug’s effects in the 1960s.
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http://www.news.com.au/national/cou...e/news-story/d9caff9174ded7b00c14f0631a12861d
THEIR case reads like a movie script.
A mum and dad charged with cooking up vast quantities of drugs and distributing them on the internet black market skip bail and reinvent themselves as a well-heeled family in an affluent suburb on the other side of the country.
But the story doesn’t end there.
Instead of lying low, the Gold Coast couple, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, enrol their daughters in one of South Australia’s most exclusive private schools and allegedly reprise their role as Australia’s “dark net drug kingpins”.
Except this time the product is not ice, heroin or cannabis — drugs the pair were allegedly supplying online up until their first arrest in July last year — it’s a psychedelic mushroom rarely found in this country.
The couple (he is 41 and she is 46) were arrested on Monday in spectacular fashion just hours after police released photographs of the nation’s most wanted fugitives and the calls started rolling in to CrimeStoppers.
As The Advertiser exclusively reported, plainclothes detectives descended on the pair as they arrived at Adelaide’s exclusive Walford Anglican School for Girls to collect their two daughters.
Onlookers were reportedly none the wiser as undercover officers captured the couple without incident in full view of parents and students just before 4pm.
Walford is regarded as one of the state’s most prestigious girls’ schools and boarders fork out more than $20,000 in annual fees.
Principal Rebecca Clarke sent a letter to parents to bring them up to speed with the dramatic events and to reassure them that no child was placed at risk during the sting.
According to The Advertiser, which obtained a copy, Ms Clarke explained that “police were required to attend the school grounds”.
“Their attendance was in response to an investigation that does not involve the school or any event or circumstance related to the school,” the letter continued.
“At no stage was there any risk to students, staff or members of the Walford community”.
Police will allege that when they searched the couple’s home in the affluent suburb of Goodwood, they found a “large commercial quantity of the controlled drug psilocybin” — a hallucinogenic mushroom — being grown in plastic tubs.
Sturt Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) Detective Chief Inspector Wayne Overmeyer, told reporters it was “unusual” to discover psilocybin being hydroponically grown in the state.
“(I) want to reiterate the dangers of producing drugs of any kind in the home,” he said.
Psilocybin is a naturally occurring psychedelic compound found in more than 200 species of mushroom and produces mind-altering effects similar to those brought on by ingestion of LSD and DMT.
American counterculture figure Timothy Leary conducted early experiments into the drug’s effects in the 1960s.
Cont -
http://www.news.com.au/national/cou...e/news-story/d9caff9174ded7b00c14f0631a12861d
