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$10 Million Cocaine Bust At Highway Stop

08/29/2009

Mysanantonio.com

BROWNSVILLE — A Laredo man was arrested after state police found $10 million worth of cocaine in the trailer he was towing.

Texas Department of Public Safety troopers stopped Alejandro Nieto, 38, on Interstate-35 in Webb County for a commercial vehicle inspection on August 22. They found 99 bundles of cocaine weighing 260 pounds.

Police said they were investigating and expected more arrests.
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http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/state/55839992.html
 
Sydney Airport staff in cocaine bust - AFP

THREE men charged over a cocaine syndicate involved in smuggling packages of drugs through Sydney Airport were employees of an airline catering company.

Authorities allege two of the men worked for an airline catering company and one was a former employee.

"There was a member of the syndicate who brought the drugs onto the plane ... and secured them within the cabin at a location known to the catering people," Australian Federal Police spokesman Commander Steve Grant said.

A total of six men, aged between 20 and 55, have been charged with importing and conspiring to import border control drugs and dealing in the proceeds in crime.

The bust is believed to be related to the importation of 5.7kg of cocaine inside a plane flying from Los Angeles to Sydney in December 2007, with an estimated street value of $1.6 million.

A joint investigation by the AFP and Australian Customs led to raids on six Sydney homes yesterday and the seizure of a kilogram of cocaine with an estimated street value of $350,000.

Commander Grant said over 58,000 telephone calls were intercepted by up to 12 officers working full-time on the investigation.

He said the importation syndicate easily pulled off their crimes.

"This network is very sophisticated ... it's a very clever operation that has been easily perpetrated within the security framework," he said.

"It is believed that this investigation has resulted in the dismantling of an international drug syndicate that relied upon the involvement of airport staff, which is an exceptional result."

Despite three of the men holding Aviation Security Identification Cards (ASICs), Commander Grant said the AFP wouldn't be looking at whether eligibility criteria for the passes needed tightening.

"This investigation is not concerned with the security of the ASIC cards, that is a separate process," he said.

"The investigation is looking at the criminality of individuals placed in a position of trust."

The offences carry penalties from 15 to 25 years imprisonment.

Three of the men are due to appear in Central Local Court today, two others are to appear in the same court tomorrow, while a sixth man was granted bail and is expected to appear in Sydney's Downing Centre Local Court on October 27.
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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,,26103003-2,00.html
 
Airline caterers 'smuggled packages of cocaine'

THREE men charged over a cocaine importation syndicate involved in smuggling packages of drugs through Sydney's airport were employees of an airline catering company, the Australian Federal Police said.
A joint investigation by the AFP and Australian Customs led to raids on six Sydney homes yesterday and the seizure of a kilogram of cocaine with an estimated street value of $350,000.

Authorities allege two of the men worked for an airline catering company and one was a former employee.

"There was a member of the syndicate who brought the drugs onto the plane ... and secured them within the cabin at a location known to the catering people," AFP spokesman Commander Steve Grant said.

A total of six men, aged between 20 and 55, have been charged with importing and conspiring to import border control drugs and dealing in the proceeds in crime.

Three of them are due to appear in Sydney's Central Local Court today.
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Not really surprising airline staff are involved in drug smuggling. It seems all the cocaine in Australia is coming in through Sydney.
 
Afghan-U.S. force seizes 50 tonnes of opium

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Afghan officials said a joint U.S.-Afghan operation seized 50 tonnes of opium and killed 17 Taliban on Wednesday, the same day Russian officials criticized anti-drug efforts in the region as inadequate.

A spokesperson for the Afghan defence ministry told new agencies on Wednesday the operation in the southern Helmand province also led to the seizure of 1.8 tonnes of heroin, 30 tonnes of fertilizer and large supplies of ammunition and weapons.

The fertilizer was reportedly of a type used to manufacture improvised explosive devices, the main weapon of the Taliban and the leading cause of casualties among Canadian and other NATO forces.

Three Taliban members were also captured during the two-day operation.

Helmand province, just west of Kandahar, is the world's largest opium-producing region. NATO officials believe that 40 per cent of the proceeds from the drug trade are used to fund the insurgency.

Influx of drugs coming to Russia

The seizure of opium comes on the same day Viktor Ivanov, the head of Russia's drug control agency, said the United States and NATO could be doing more to stop the production of opium and heroin in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan provides more than 90 per cent of the heroin consumed in the world, and the bulk of it flows through ex-Soviet Central Asia and Russia. The movement of drugs from Afghanistan through Russia has also fuelled a surge in addiction rates and has been a key factor in the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

Russia has between 2 million and 2.5 million addicts, with about 30,000 dying each year from drug overdoses, according to Russian drug officials.

Ivanov said he recently spoke to U.S. officials about beginning a program of spraying herbicide from the air to eradicate Afghanistan's fields of opium poppies.

"I hope that our open-minded dialogue will encourage the U.S. to take more adequate measures," Ivanov said.

Efforts at chopping down or seizing crops have also not had a noticeable effect on the drug trade, he said.

A United Nations report found that the amount of land planted with opium poppies in Afghanistan dropped 36 per cent between 2007 and 2008, but production fell only 10 per cent, due to improved growing techniques.

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/10/08/afghanistan-opium-seizure-heroin-.html
 
I read a different article where this Ivanov character cited our success with South American spraying, as a reason to begin spraying in Afghanistan. :D But then again I don't expect much from a country that treats their addicts the way they do.
 
Thats a fuckload of opiates! Its a drop in the ocean though, means sweet fuck all. 30,000 opiate addicts dying in Russia is phenominal, they should really get some better treatment programs.
 
Sussex Police seize £2.5 fake ecstasy from Portslade lock-up

Potentially deadly fake ecstasy worth £2.5m was seized in a police drugs raid.

About 100kg of benzylpiperazine - a legal high the Government wants to outlaw - was discovered in a Portslade garage.

Police fear the drug, which is known as BZP and commonly sold as under the guise of ecstasy, could pose health risks to clubbers who take bigger doses in the hope of achieving the hit of a single real ecstasy dose.

Three raids were carried out in Brighton and Hove on Friday by Sussex Police’s serious and organised crime unit.

Officers seized 2kg of cocaine, worth over £100,000 on the street.

They also found 100kg of chemicals, mainly BZP, in a garage in Deacons Drive, which they said had been turned into a drugs factory.

Most of the BZP was in 25kg drums imported from China for a few hundred dollars a time.

Medics describe the effects of BZP as similar to amphetamines.

After Friday’s raids, two men were charged with possessing the BZP with intent to commit fraud.

Michael Randall, 38, of Deacons Drive, Portslade, was charged with possession of cocaine with intent to supply. He was also charged under the Fraud Act with possessing the chemicals for the purpose of fraud.

He appeared at Brighton Magistrate’s Court on Saturday October 10 and was remanded in custody until October 19; David Green, 34, of London Rd, Brighton, was charged with the Fraud Act offence and bailed until a hearing at the same court on October 23.

A 23-year old man, also from Brighton, was bailed without charge while police investigate further.

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/46781...slade_lock_up/
 
Yeah ^ These are the only busts I enjoy hearing about. These and when I hear of parents having a large meth lab in their house with children running around. That gets me heated, cook and inhale that toxic shit if you want.... but.... don't subject it to your children. its like smoking cigarettes but 10,000 times worse.
 
After Friday’s raids, two men were charged with possessing the BZP with intent to commit fraud.
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That is kind of interesting..

glad to hear they got that garbage off the street. that is a truly scummy dealer.
 
Massive magic mushroom bust

LAKE LOUISE, Alta. — Mounties have harvested a massive crop of magic mushrooms and charged two people after a traffic stop near Lake Louise.

Two Calgary men were charged following seizure of 68 kg of psilocybin, worth about $700,000, in cardboard boxes after a truck was stopped by Mounties for an "equipment violation" last Thursday, said RCMP spokesman Sgt. Patrick Webb.

Webb said an RCMP investigator, who has 15 years of experience, told him the largest seizure of the same drugs was about 15 kg several years ago.

"This is quite larger than that one," said Webb.

"He cannot recall of any other seizure this size in Western Canada."

As police interviewed the truck driver and its passenger they figured a further probe was required.

A dog unit team was available in the area and was later brought in to check the truck and officers found the massive amount of drugs in the bed of the pickup truck.

Since the seizure, the drugs have been re-cased in large plastic containers which netted 11 bags.

Magic mushrooms are hallucinogens, in the same drug group as LSD.

These are drugs that act on the central nervous system to greatly affect the way one feels and thinks.

Webb said investigators believe the load was destined for Calgary, where it would have been possibly distributed in the area and throughout Western Canada.

The truck was eastbound on the Trans-Canada Hwy. coming from B.C., where the magic mushrooms were possibly grown by an organized criminal group, said Webb.

The magic mushrooms appear to be in the same age which makes investigators believe they were not simply gathered and picked out of the woods.


October 28, 2009

Posted By RENATO GANDIA, SUN MEDIA
http://www.nugget.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2148891
 
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