Mega Merged Drug Bust Thread v2.0

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So basically they started getting fucked up, caused a load of shit untill the police were called, let them in sitting on 23keys of MDMA? Someone is going to have to take the shit for that, ouch.
 
WOW. Damn. Classic case of "only break one law at a time".

Really kinda hoping it's methlyone, but at the same time not because I highly doubt these guys were at the top of the chain and therefore more will be made pretty quick.
 
http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/957/Binnen...2/Politie-legt-groot-drugsnetwerk-bloot.dhtml

Original story in Dutch, thx google translator!
Police dismantles largest drug lab in Europe in Chimay

Investigators of the Federal Judicial Police (FGP) of Asse, 14 people were arrested who were part of an international drug ring. The organization, which had branches in Belgium, Poland and Turkey, would have been dealing with the large-scale production and sale of MDMA or ecstasy. The ecstasy lab in Chimay is the largest ever dismantled in Europe.

At 30 raids in Belgium, Poland and the Netherlands were not only arrested suspects but also two labs and two warehouses and discovered a small tonnes of finished MDMA seized. Reports that the federal prosecutor, that is in charge of the investigation.

Contra Strategies
According to the federal prosecutor formed the various suspects of Belgian, Polish and Turkish nationality, a well-structured criminal organization that was active for several years and is heavily involved with the production of MDMA. In addition, they kept the different parts of the production process that was completely separate from any police raid not lost. They hid their laboratories and warehouses also behind false walls and made use of counter-strategies to thwart. Observations or other police techniques Firearms were also not strange to them.

For months research
The FGP of Asse conducted months of research into the organization, in cooperation with Europol and various federal and local police. That investigation led to Thursday 21 raids in Belgium, in the region of Antwerp, Brussels, Charleroi, Hasselt, Leuven, Nivelles, Bergen and Turnhout. Carried out with the support of the special intervention units of the federal police, fire, and laboratory intervention of the federal police and Europol. Additionally found in Poland eight raids and place in the Netherlands.

14 arrests
On that searches the police could pick 14 people, of whom 11 are brought before the investigating magistrate in Brussels De Coster. Who should decide on their arrest. The investigators also discovered two laboratories and two warehouses and found nearly 1,000 pounds of MDMA. 25 kilos of MDMA can be an average of 1.5 million ecstasy pills made. In addition to the finished product, the police also 18.5 tons safrololie take, a product used in the manufacture of MDMA, as well as a dozen cars.
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Canada - Largest seizure of meth in Ontario history nets about four million pills worth
National Post
September 5th, 2013

VAUGHAN, Ont. — Five Ontario residents are facing numerous drug-related charges after what police are calling the largest seizure of methamphetamine and clandestine drug labs in Ontario’s history.

Members of the Asian Organized Crime Task Force — which includes police forces from across Ontario and Canada — revealed details Thursday of the investigation into a crime ring they allege involved large-scale production of methamphetamine.

They said seven search warrants had been executed in July at residences and businesses across the Greater Toronto Area, along with two in the Campbellford and Warkworth areas of eastern Ontario.

Investigators say among the drug labs they dismantled was one in Warkworth, northwest of Trenton, which was used to produce raw methamphetamine. Police said it’s one of the largest methamphetamine labs ever discovered in Ontario.

A pill-pressing lab in nearby Campbellford was found to have been guarded with a bear trap shrouded by leaves.
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Read the full story here.
 
^ With more pics (of the lab and some of the meth pills seized) and user comments.

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Some of the meth found in the bust.
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Traffickers set 30 tonnes of drugs alight

Italian police say they were tipped off about a major drug cargo sailing across the Mediterranean. When they intercepted it, the traffickers set it alight.

Egyptian and Syrian drug traffickers have set fire to their own ship carrying 30 tonnes of hashish after being intercepted by Italian maritime patrols.

Italian police said on Saturday they were tipped off three days earlier about a major drug cargo on the ship sailing across the Mediterranean.

They said in a statement they approached the ship on Friday and tried to board the 85-metre cargo vessel registered in Tanzania.

"The nine crew members, Egyptian and Syrian nationals, set fire to the ship to destroy their precious cargo and jumped into the sea," it said.

The traffickers were fished out of the water and arrested by Italian police and the fire was extinguished after several hours.

Maltese forces helped put out the fire on the Gold Star, a spokesman for the Maltese military told AFP, adding that it had deployed three patrol boats and a helicopter in the area.

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2013/09/07/traffickers-set-30-tonnes-drugs-alight
 
Aus - Drug raids across city end with 20 charges

CANNABIS, ice, ecstasy and steroids were allegedly found and nine people charged after a specialist police operation raided homes across Cairns.
Seven men and two women will front court, facing a total of 20 charges, after Cairns' Tactical Crime Squad descended on nine homes in Manoora, Earlville, Mooroobool and Parramatta Park on Wednesday.
The drug seizures were part of an ongoing drug operation, codenamed Blindside.
Tactical Crime Squad Senior Constable Mark Bakker said one raid, on a caravan on Pease St, also allegedly turned up an explosive device and ahydroponic lab, with a 23-year-old man charged.
"The hydroponic set-up is not active at this stage so further investigations are going into that," he said.
Sen-Constable Bakker said there were not high quantities of each substance, but said it was still a significant haul.
"The TCS here in Cairns, as in any squad in the QPS, is dedicated to stemming the flow of the drug trade, no matter what size it is, so it's always good to disrupt any trade in illegal drugs in the area," he said.
Among the drug charges were nine counts of drug possession, one count of drug production and nine counts of possessing drug utensils.
Sen-Constable Bakker said the alleged offenders ranged in age from 18 to 51.
Blindside is a 12-month operation being run by the Tactical Crime Squad which began in January and targets a variety of drug issues.
Those charged are due to appear in the Cairns Magistrates Court later this month.
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http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2013/09/07/247846_local-news.html
 
Suspected drug smugglers sail to jail

(CNN) -- Two people who thought they were sailing toward a big payday ended up in jail and are suspected of drug smuggling, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

Crew members on the Coast Guard cutter Dependable noticed the 49-foot sailing vessel Elegance was "riding suspiciously low in the water" in the Atlantic about 500 miles east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on Monday, a Coast Guard news release said.

Coast Guard officers, who boarded the Canadian-registered boat after consulting with Canadian authorities, found more than 1,200 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated wholesale value of $20 million, the release said.

The two people on the boat were arrested after the contraband tested positive for cocaine, it said. The suspects' names and nationalities were not immediately made public.

The Dependable, with the Elegance in tow, suspected smugglers in custody and the cocaine on board, arrived in Boston Friday.

While the haul was big, it's just a small part of the Coast Guard's annual cocaine seizures at sea. The Coast Guard has seized 44,000 pounds of cocaine in the previous 12 months, the release said.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/07/us/massachusetts-drug-bust/
 
the funny thing is a lot of these busts are probably just decoys used by the suppliers to draw attention away from the boat with an exponentially higher amount of drugs on it.

im sure some aren't like that, but id bet the majority are
 
4 Canadian Hells Angels arrested in Spain cocaine bust
CBC
September 14th, 2013

Four members of the Hells Angels have been arrested in northwest Spain for allegedly smuggling 500 kilograms of cocaine into the country with the aim of distributing it, Spain's Interior Ministry said in a statement Saturday.

The statement said the men, all Canadians, were arrested near the coastal city of Pontevedra, where one had arrived by yacht, allegedly having sailed from Colombia with the drugs.

One of the three men who met the yacht was "a known member" of the San Diego chapter of the Hells Angels and another had been under investigation for suspected drug smuggling by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the statement said.
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Three charged, more than $900,000 worth of drugs seized - Port Macquarie

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Police have charged three men and seized drugs with a potential street value of more than $900,000 during a search warrant at Port Macquarie.

About 2.30pm yesterday (Thursday 19 September 2013), police from Mid North Coast Local Area Command executed a search warrant at a business on Jindalee Road.

During the search, police allegedly located more than 6500 tablets and 15kg of powder containing the prohibited drug Methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV).

A pill press machine was also seized.

Three men, aged 45, 23 and 49, were arrested and taken to Port Macquarie Police Station.

The 45-year-old man was charged with manufacture large commercial quantity of prohibited drug, supply large commercial quantity of prohibited drug and possess tablet press.

The 23-year-old was charged with manufacture large commercial quantity of prohibited drug and supply large commercial quantity of prohibited drug.

The 49-year-old was charged with take part in the manufacture of a large commercial quantity of prohibited drug, supply prohibited drug and possess prohibited drug.

All three were refused bail to appear at Port Macquarie Local Court today (Friday 20 September 2013).

Video - [video=youtube_share;b6LjcOlos6g]http://youtu.be/b6LjcOlos6g[/video]

http://www.police.nsw.gov.au/news/m...i5hdSUy Rm1lZGlhJTJGMzI2ODkuaHRtbCZhbGw9MQ==
 
Canada - Canadian warship makes drug bust on Arabian Sea
A Canadian warship on patrol in the Arabian Sea made what the military is touting as an important drug seizure on Saturday.
HMCS Toronto intercepted and boarded a suspected smuggling vessel, seizing 154 bags of heroin weighing more than 180 kilograms, said a news release issued late Saturday.

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The frigate has made a number of drug seizures while on patrol in the past few months, including seizing 500 kilograms of heroin last March and about 5950 kilograms of hashish in another boarding incident in May.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canadian-warship-makes-drug-bust-on-arabian-sea-1.1914314

Staying busy, it seems.
 
Alleged Canadian-led drug ring busted in Australia
CBC
October 21st, 2013

Australian police say they've busted a Canadian-led international syndicate that imported nearly two tonnes of drug-making materials worth almost $300 million to the country.

The Australian Associated Press reports eight Canadians and two Australians are in custody.

Police said the weekend arrests followed the seizure last month in Melbourne of 650 kilograms of pseudoephedrine that had been hidden in vanilla powder jars.
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Canada - 'Fake weed' CEO Adam Wookey charged in $2M drug bust
CBC
October 30th, 2013

The head of a synthetic marijuana company whose product was being sold in Hamilton is in trouble with the law again after a $2-million drug bust.

Toronto police arrested Adam Wookey, 29, of Toronto, on Monday along with four others. The CEO of the Izms and PurePillz companies is now facing a host of drug-related charges.

On Monday, officers from the Toronto police drug squad executed six search warrants in connection with a two-week investigation into an alleged illegal drug distribution network.

Officers allegedly found $1-million worth of MDMA, $580,000 worth of pot, and $200,000 worth of cocaine in the raids. Smaller amounts of heroin, crystal meth and ketamine were also found, along with $90,000 in cash considered “proceeds of crime,” police say.
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Damn. If you are going to run a barely-legal business that the police would love to bust you for (but can't find a real crime to charge you with), it's a very bad idea to be involved in truly illicit activity at the same time, as they will be watching closely.
 
Just in time for Halloween
Woman charged in cocaine pumpkin bust at Trudeau airport

A Montreal-area woman faces two drug-related charges after border officials stumbled upon a different kind of Halloween surprise inside three pumpkins.

Mercedes Jerez Farias, 26, appeared before a judge in Montreal Thursday and was charged with importing drugs and drug possession for the purpose of trafficking.

Custom agents found three pumpkins in her luggage at Montreal's Trudeau International Airport, stuffed with approximately two kilograms of what is believed to be cocaine.

Scanning equipment had detected masses inside the pumpkins, which turned out to be bags filled with a chalky substance.

A spokeswoman with the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) wasn't able to say whether Jerez Farias is a Canadian citizen, but confirmed the accused lives in Delson on Montreal's South Shore.

If found guilty, Jerez Farias faces a minimum of two years in prison.

She is expected to appear for a bail hearing Friday morning.

The RCMP have taken over the investigation.

The CBSA says that since the beginning of 2013, there have been 173 drug seizures at Montreal's airport. Ten of those involved cocaine, with roughly 44 kilos seized.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montr...ine-pumpkin-bust-at-trudeau-airport-1.2303972
 
Don't know how you could possible expect to get away with that. :|

Unfortunatly she now has to live with her poor decision making an sit in prison costing us all money despite us really having no care for her incarceration.

Unless your from somewhere thats not canada. Like me then its just the same story for another poor soul. Smh
 
lol a fucking pumpkin like first of all who takes something like that in a suitcase?
 
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Just in time for Halloween
Woman charged in cocaine pumpkin bust at Trudeau airport

A Montreal-area woman faces two drug-related charges after border officials stumbled upon a different kind of Halloween surprise inside three pumpkins.

Mercedes Jerez Farias, 26, appeared before a judge in Montreal Thursday and was charged with importing drugs and drug possession for the purpose of trafficking.

Custom agents found three pumpkins in her luggage at Montreal's Trudeau International Airport, stuffed with approximately two kilograms of what is believed to be cocaine.

Scanning equipment had detected masses inside the pumpkins, which turned out to be bags filled with a chalky substance.

A spokeswoman with the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) wasn't able to say whether Jerez Farias is a Canadian citizen, but confirmed the accused lives in Delson on Montreal's South Shore.

If found guilty, Jerez Farias faces a minimum of two years in prison.

She is expected to appear for a bail hearing Friday morning.

The RCMP have taken over the investigation.

The CBSA says that since the beginning of 2013, there have been 173 drug seizures at Montreal's airport. Ten of those involved cocaine, with roughly 44 kilos seized.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montr...ine-pumpkin-bust-at-trudeau-airport-1.2303972
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2 years minimum? Canada has some lax drug laws you'd get that for selling weed in the US.
 
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