Police seize 42,000 ecstasy pills on eve of 'Schoolies'

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WA POLICE are hunting an out-of-pocket drug dealer after intercepting 42,000 ecstasy tablets - worth about $1.6 million - on the eve of Schoolies celebration

The 14kg stash of potentially lethal green-coloured pills, embossed with Nike tick and Apple Mac logos, is among the biggest hauls of ecstasy ever uncovered in Perth.

The pills, in plastic clip seal bags, were found loaded into one of three suitcases on Tuesday, November 24.

Detectives today called on public help to identify a man, aged in his 40s, who was photographed by closed circuit surveillance at a ``destination point'' in WA.

For ``operational reasons'', police say they cannot disclose where the man was photographed or how they happened across the drugs.

Detective Superintendent Charlie Carver, head of the Organised Crime Squad, said the seizure had been a big win for police in removing thousands of ecstasy pills from WA streets and preventing potential harm to users.

``We strongly suspect that those tablets were destined for Schoolies Week,'' Det-Supt Carver said.

``You just don't know what's being put through them, what they're cut with. There's been instances where there has been glass, chalk and all sorts of other things, washing powder put in these tablets.

``They are made in laboratories that not safe.

``They are harmful, don't take them. You don't know what's in them and they can cause serious harm, if not, fatalities.''

An online website, where users rate the effects of ecstasy and illicit pills, has recommended similar tablets to other users.

Det Supt Carver said police believed the man had tried to disguise his identity by wearing a hat and sunglasses.


Nicole Cox, police reporter
December 03, 2009 11:30am

http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/stor...8-2761,00.html
 
They are harmful, don't take them. You don't know what's in them and they can cause serious harm, if not, fatalities.
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man god talk like that annoys me, like they are poison ...
 
Hmm my piperazine sense is tingling..! Seem to be the same shape and press as some multicoloured apple macs that were going around Perth which were pipes.

Also laughed at the cop who said they add washing powder to the pills to increase their weight. Don't see what this would accomplish, I'm not going to be paying anymore for a pill that weighs twice as much.

Edit: http://www.pillreports.com/index.php?page=display_pill&id=18630

Pipes..! Glad they removed this crap from the street.
 
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Aussie term. When the kids finish their 12 years of school they party for a week and are called schoolies.

EVERY drug raid within a month of schoolies is apparently destined for the event and that includes drugs like heroin. Also the police tend to raid alot of dealers about a week or 2 before schoolies so they can take maximum effect of the "think of the children!!"
 
I like how they say potentially lethal. Do they also say that about everything imported? Irresponsible without stating what's in the pills, I think of a way to kill myself with anything that's in this country.
 
australian money isn't worth as much as american money. also e is more expensive there because australia has a larger number of users. supply and demand.
 
^and because it's pretty hard to smuggle drugs to a remote island with strongly anti-drug government.
 
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``You just don't know what's being put through them, what they're cut with. There's been instances where there has been glass, chalk and all sorts of other things, washing powder put in these tablets.
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Why don't they just test the pills. instead of saying all this crap about strange pills they might have found in the past. ==;; glass? why glass out of all things...
 
^ Pretty sure its because its a general warning about ecstasy and not just these specific pills, in that case the specific contents of these pills are irrelevant. It would be nice if they tested pills more often and printed the results but what can you do.

Its pretty funny about the chalk, there was an article posted in AusDD a while back about pill pressers being caught with chalk and they made out like it was some terrible thing. A poster actually pointed out that apparently chalk is used in the pharmaceutical industry as a pill binder. Assuming thats accurate its pretty fucking funny as I see chalk mentioned quite often as though its some bad shit.

I have never heard of glass in pills, although a while ago on pill reports I saw some pills that a few had been found to have metal in them. It is assumed this metal broke off the pill press and was not intentionall pressed into the tablets.
 
It infuriates me when police refer to a drug bust as a "win". We're supposed to be on the same side here! There should be no sense of competition between the public and their law enforcers. There should be no "winning" or "losing"! Cops are meant to serve and protect us, not try to beat us at an imagined game of Drugs or No Drugs. -_-

That being said, if those pills were really pipes as it seems, then it's great that the cops are keeping that shit out of the hands of dealers/users. :)
 
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