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That's a fair bit of meth, 410 kg.. But my fav part:
He then packed it into the boot of his green BMW, with its personalised registration plate which read: FELONY.
FOR a former factory cleaner, Milan Uzelac flashed a remarkable amount of cash.
He drove a late-model BMW, rented a palatial home in Sans Souci, and lived the high life, gambling and womanising.
But while he was outwardly wealthy, the 44-year-old Croatian immigrant and married father of two was getting his cash from a life of crime.
On 16 January, 2002, it all came tumbling down.
About 10pm that night, drug squad detectives watched as Uzelac hurled himself over the fence of Pfizer pharmaceuticals' Caringbah plant, where he had worked as a contract cleaner between April and September, 2001.
Uzelac went to a secure storage area within the complex and went in through a door which had been left unlocked for him by an accomplice.
He came out shortly afterwards, carrying a drum containing 26kg of pure pseudoephidrine, and cut a hole in the wire fencing to put the drum through.
He then packed it into the boot of his green BMW, with its personalised registration plate which read: FELONY.
His work done, he then picked up two young women, who were dressed up to accompany him to a nightspot in the city.
The drug squad detectives tailing Uzelac stopped the car at Rockdale and searched it, discovering the stolen drum. Uzelac's high life was over.
On Monday, Uzelac was sentenced to serve eight year's imprisonment after pleading guilty to stealing the drum of pure pseudoephedrine and receiving 657kg of cold and flu tablets stolen from Pfizer.
The drugs, which police believed were destined for the black market, were enough to make $41 million worth of illegal methylamphetamine or 410kg.
In sentencing Uzelac on Monday, District Court Judge Ken Taylor said Uzelac had a gambling addition and used cocaine.
"The defendant was motivated by greed," Judge Taylor said.
Uzelac, who has a son and daughter in their early 20s, had seen an opportunity to fulfil this greed when he began working at Pfizer.
So even when he was sacked in September 2001, ostensibly for his poor performance, he had recruited a young accomplice, Chris Winterflood, who had just started working there.
Winterflood has been sentenced to two year's jail after pleading guilty to his role in the theft of drugs from Pfizer.
That's a fair bit of meth, 410 kg.. But my fav part:
He then packed it into the boot of his green BMW, with its personalised registration plate which read: FELONY.