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Massive ICE Bust in Sydney -

BayCityRolla

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Take from the SMH Website

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Record drug seizure in Sydney
May 15 2003


A record haul of the illicit drug ice was shipped from China to Australia hidden in cartons of rice noodles, authorities said today.

A joint operation by Australian Customs Service and Australian Federal Police led to the seizure on Tuesday of 223 kilograms of the methamphetamine drug commonly known as ice.

The AFP said two people would face court today in relation to the seizure, which has an estimated street value of $112 million.

"The drugs had been cleverly concealed in a container shipment of cartons of Rice Sticks which had landed at Port Botany from China on May 2," said Customs NSW Regional Director David Collins.

Mr Collins said customs intelligence analysts had selected the shipment for scrutiny and made the discovery.
The AFP then placed the container under surveillance and on Tuesday this week monitored its delivery to a warehouse in Sydney's Ultimo.

AFP Eastern Operations General Manager Tony Negus said police alleged a number of the cartons containing the ice were separated from the rest of the contents and further surveillance led to the arrest of a man and a woman yesterday.

After the arrests, AFP officers carried out a number of searches in Sydney's inner suburbs, discovering a further five kilograms of ice.

A 46-year-old Australian woman from Ultimo had been charged under the Customs Act with possessing a trafficable quantity of narcotic goods and importing a prohibited import.

She had also been charged with possessing a trafficable quantity of narcotics, under the Drugs Misuse and Trafficking Act.

A 40-year-old man, a Canadian citizen living in Sydney, was charged under the Customs Act with possessing and attempting to possess a prohibited import.

Both were due to appear in Sydney's Central Local Court today.

Australia's previous largest ice seizure was in July 2001 when a joint AFP Police and Customs operation led to the seizure of 152 kilograms of the drug on a yacht moored at Mooloolaba on Queensland's Sunshine Coast and from a townhouse on the Gold Coast.

AAP

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Damn I was keen to try some ICE..Ive heard some glowing reports of late

BCR
 
That estimation of $112 million is crazy. That is $50 points. They shouldn't say stuff like that in the newspapers seeing as the ICE wasn't going to be sold as individual points at a price higher than the street price.
 
In any event this is further evidence that:

"ICE" currently is methamphetamine.
Ice is generally imported from Asia - although China surprised me.
Ice, unlike generic local speed, may often be from the same original source, even if its found on opposite sides of the country.

This makes it more similar to pills in how its distributed - (although bear in mind it is of couse easier to tamper with/dilute etc)

Lets face it, 223kg of near pure meth in one single bust is MASSIVE. Just over a gram for 1% of Australia's whole population.

If thats the sort of quantity arriving here, then rest assured there is a high chance that much of the ice in the country at any one time is likely to be the same; and in this case its methamphetamine.
 
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some1 said this before..

isn't the street value, the estimated amount of money that exchanges hands before the drug reaches the user.
 
Yeah...I stated that in another thread recently!!!
I'm still not sure if it's correct or not, I'm sure someone on here would actually know, but then again it is the media, so there's just as good as chance they could make it up!!!8(
 
ICE is not METHAMPHETIMINE....

I mean, I hope the police know the difference because from the amount of posts I'm reading the public and the media don't.

They are different drugs entirely. ICE is not the crystal form of METH as many people have been fooled into believing.
 
NC: I hear what you're saying... but ICE is now a widely publicised media 'street' term for pure crystal. In over 3 years of being involved with Bluelight, I can say with some degree of certainty that confirmed 4-methylaminorex sightings in Australia are very rare.

It's just another kewl slang word for any really pure stimulant in clear crystal form now, thanks to the confusion bought about by people wanting to glamourise their drugs.

I spose it's going to get to the point where we either take significant steps to get to the bottom of this issue (meaning going absolutely out of our ways to test each and every scrap of stimulants we can find with EZ-Xtreme or other reagents), or we roll over and say 'yes, whatever, as long as it makes you tweak for 12+ hours who gives a fuck what you call it'?

BTW: all samples of any speed/meth/crystal/ice/glass or WHATEVER that I've been able to personally test in Melbourne have tested as methamphetamine.

BigTrancer :)
 
Thank you BT.

NC: most of us know what ice is meant to be; but lets get one thing straight, "ice" as in 4-MAR is still a STREET or SLANG term for the drug. Its not the NAME of the drug.
4-MAR is also called "Euphoria" only with a different spelling.


IMHO we should avoid street terms on Bluelight wherever possible - use the chemical names instead when we know them.

(e.g street terms are applicable when we say the DD sold us something he called "ice". However I later tested it to be methamphetamine and i will from now on refer to it as methamphetamine.)

We are not going to change the street slang out there; and we definitely will not change what is said by the police or media.
Lets face it, the term ICE is now clearly entrenched in the greater community as meaning very well crystallised methamphetamine, which is often, (although does not have to be), smoked.
That is how the community sees it, and it is them who are responsible for the street terms for all drugs.

It does not mean we have to sink to those levels here - and I personally wont - thats why i try and use the phrase "ice as in meth" where relevant. (and lets face it, sometimes you need to be more descriptive as to the form of the drug- if i just said meth, it could mean cut powdered meth, meth paste, shards, "ice"(rock), etc - so be specifying people have half a clue - but the crucial part - the chemical name - is still there)

If I want to discuss 4-MAR i will use 4-MAR - not "ice".
As far as i am concerned, once the greater community stops using a street term or uses that term to describe something else, it ceases to be an acceptable term for the original substance - and we should not use it.
"ICE" can describe a lot of things, and may go on to describe something else in another few years for all we know.

4-MAR and methylamphetamine however will describe each substance as they really are, for eternity.
 
As long as you agree with me and use the term ICE because it's so widely used to represent crystal then thats fine. ;)

MOTOMAN said:
It was only a matter of time. I knew the ice thing wouldn't last too long.
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Well if they weren't so greedy with the amount they were importing they would've had a much better chance of getting away with it. I mean the profit made if successful from selling all that ICE is just too much to spend in a lifetime without raising eye brows anyway.
 
NC: i do agree with you.

Actually i do not agree with using ICE on its own to describe any drug; at least on BL where we are expected to be more specific and people have half a clue.
Hence the "ice as in meth" tag.

Anyway im glad we r on the same wavelength.

What that haul could do on the streets is mind boggling.
Unlike huge hauls of quality MDMA pills, i have more mixed emotions about a haul of this nature.
 
It's a good thing it got busted, I know of a few people who have been stuck on this shit for a few months now and it's taking control of them.....even though sad for some, good for others.
 
MOTOMAN said:
It's a good thing it got busted, I know of a few people who have been stuck on this shit for a few months now and it's taking control of them.....even though sad for some, good for others.
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True to that....i know quite a few young ravers who are on the road to nowhere becuse of this shitty drug......itll do them good to have it harder to obtain....
 
it was on sydneys ten news tonight to...but they described ICE as CRYSTAL METH aswell...sorry for sounding totally out of the loop...but r the two totally diff? or are they the same? cause on the news it was given a whole list of names...ice, crystal meth and i also heard shabu...

the term 'ice' is taken and talked bout in so many diff ways... 8)
 
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I've never taken Ice before.. but when i saw it on the news.. it made my mouth water.
Just seeing the cops holding all the bags of it looked totally wrong

Geez, feel sorry for the poor geezers who were waiting for their fix.. lol
 
Ice= meth/4-MAR thread

I just want to ask you people is any of you have tried 4 mar I'v taken what was caled ice and I'm sure it's methamphetamine but in thailand I took some called ice there and it was totally diferent it looked realy simular and smoked the same way but the effects were noticably difffernt it had a much shorter duration like 2-3 hours. I diddent really enjoy in nothing compared to good old meth
 
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Yes I have taken 4-MAR before, and it is a very differant chem from meth. Your brain seems to speed up and every thought comes out crystal clear. You fly around, your head the clearest it has ever been. Comedown is a total BITCH.

But I agree, lets not turn this into yet another ice != meth debate.
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MDMA-4-ALL (But never again 4-MAR for me thanks)
 
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