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SHE looks like your typical Greek "yiayia", but Vasiliki Hatzis is an expert at clipping marijuana plants - $45 million worth of them. On her 71st birthday the grandmother, who wears black in memory of her late husband, was yesterday given a five-year-good behaviour bond in the District Court for manicuring marijuana. Judge Michael Finnane, found the frail woman, who uses a walking stick, was unlikely to reoffend and had trimmed the plants out of a sense of loyalty to her 73-year-old husband, Vasilios Hatzis. Her arrest in September last year came after police seized $45 million worth of cannabis on the north-western NSW property she lived on. Sitting in a chair on …
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From: Agence France-Presse ORGANISED crime detectives believe the arrest of three men in Perth has broken a national drug syndicate responsible for shipping thousands of dollars worth of methylamphetamine into Western Australia. As a result of the arrests yesterday, police said around $700,000 worth of assets, including more than $200,000 in cash, would be seized and frozen under WA proceeds of crime laws. Operation Marlee was launched in March, targeting the activities of a suspected national crime network responsible for the drug trafficking, WA Police said. Advertisement: Investigations identified members of the network in WA and Victoria, and the operation clima…
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A man who police allege has been part of a drug distribution network appeared in court at Bega yesterday (Tuesday, June 7). The 49-year-old Bega man was arrested after police raided several properties in the town on Monday, June 6 and seized cannabis worth up to $150,000. Members of the Police Drug Squad and local police cordoned off a commercial building in Auckland Street and several vehicles parked outside for several hours and undertook a major search that continued late into Monday afternoon. A house in Angle Street and one in Rawlinson Street, Bega were also searched as part of the overall police search action. They also took amphetamines and a sum of cash fou…
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A Supreme Court judge has jailed two Mackay men for 18 months each on separate drug-related charges. Lesley Carter, 38, pleaded guilty to possessing more than four kilograms of cannabis. The court heard Carter sold his Harley Davidson for $20,000, with the drugs making up the balance of the sale. Carter claimed he intended to use only half of the four kilograms for "commercial use". Justice Kerry Cullinane jailed him for 18 months to be suspended after six months. In a separate case, John McLellan, 52, will serve three months in jail for growing marijuana in the courtyard of his inner-city townhouse. Police found McLellan with one kilogram of cannabis in plast…
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Trent Bruce Torrens didn't have much luck with his efforts to grow a little cannabis for himself and save on electricity, Darwin Magistrates Court heard yesterday. Last September he set up a hydroponics system in the laundry of his Woodroffe residence and tried to grow several plants, prosecutor Sergeant Gavin Kennedy said. On Christmas Eve, he got hold of a cloned plant, which he began to nurture. Torrens then put a heavy-duty magnet on his electricity meter in an attempt to slow it. While waiting for his plant to mature, he bought a small amount of cannabis to smoke and $80 worth of methylamphetamine at a city hotel. That day, February 15, while he was at wo…
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Two people have been charged after detectives seized more than 100 kilograms of cannabis in Canberra last night. Police found the hydroponically-grown drugs in an Isabella Plains house. Australian Federal Police (AFP) spokesman Sandy Logan says $22,500, suspected of being proceeds of crime, was also recovered. "A 50-year-old woman and a 50-year-old man have remained in custody overnight," he said. "They'll face the ACT Magistrates Court this morning on a cultivating a trafficable quantity of cannabis for sale charge, as well as trafficking in a trafficable quantity and unlawful possession of stolen property." Author:ABC Date:Tuesday, June 7, 2005. Source:ABC Cop…
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POLICE have seized almost 250kg of ammunition, detonators, weapons and drugs in suburban Canberra. ACT police carried out three simultaneous raids in the inner southern suburb of Yarralumla yesterday morning. A 44-year-old man is helping officers with their inquiries. Police said the raids had been planned for several weeks following community information about an alleged cache of potentially dangerous material being stored in a suburban home and garage. "Territory Investigations Group detectives seized thousands of rounds of ammunition, as well as three firearms and two silencers," said deputy chief police officer Commander Shane Connelly. "The bomb response t…
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The Cannabis Treatment Service in the Sydney suburb of Parramatta is so successful that it now has the interest of international medical experts. Dr Jon Currie has treated over 400 cannabis-dependant patients at the clinic during a 12-month trial. Withdrawal from cannabis, says Dr Currie, can be "really very difficult — they get angry, irritated, aggressive, so they often just don't stop". One of Dr Currie's patients, Julia Norcott, was dependent on marijuana for more than 20 years, "I'd get up every morning and have to have a few cones straight away to start the day," she admits. A combination of medication and counselling have now cured her addiction. "I can say every…
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NT Police yesterday placed a restraining order on a comfortable suburban townhouse under the Criminal Property Forfeiture Act. Two vehicles and $90,000 cash belonging to the owners of 3/4 Winston St, Stuart Park, in Darwin, are also the subject of a restraining order after police allegedly found more than 12kg of cannabis hidden inside last month. William John McGregor, 60, and Maria Laidat-McGregor, 36, are charged with possessing a commercial quantity of cannabis, supplying a traffickable quantity of cannabis and possessing the cash and proceeds of crime. Both were remanded in custody and are due to appear at Darwin Magistrates Court for a hand-up committal on Jul…
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A DRIVER who became a victim of Victoria's roadside drug test fiasco is suing the State Government. John De Jong, 40, said being falsely named and shamed as a drug taker had had a devastating effect on him and his family. The van driver, identified as the first in the world to return a positive result in a roadside drug test, said a Victoria Police refusal to apologise had forced his hand. "I think I have to take legal action. I don't really see myself as having a choice," Mr De Jong said. "I did ask for an apology and nothing came back." The Herald Sun first raised questions on the accuracy of the testing regimen. The Government was forced to try to defend ro…
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A man who grew 15 cannabis plants through a hydroponic operation at his home in Canberra has escaped conviction by an ACT Supreme Court. Police discovered the plants when they raided Guy Terance Hawksley's home in Turner in October 2003. Today the court heard he used the drug to treat pain from a back injury sustained when he was training to become an elite rower. Hawksley provided results from a test for cannabis to show he was now clean. Justice Terry Connolly said the man had turned his life around and was now finding alternative ways to treat the pain. He did not convict Hawksley but placed him on a 12-month good behaviour bond. Author:ABC Date:Wednesday, …
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A policeman on trial for stealing marijuana he obtained from an arrest was allegedly seen taking it to the male change rooms at Lilydale Police Station, where he hid it in his locker, a jury heard yesterday. Senior Constable Lee John Lorenc, 33, has pleaded not guilty to two counts of theft and two counts of possession of marijuana. The County Court heard that Lorenc, of Monbulk, arrested Emma Stevens after he pulled over her car in Coldstream and found eight ounces of marijuana worth $2000 inside a plastic bag on October 8, 2002. Lorenc allegedly told Stevens that he would not weigh the the drugs if she admitted to taking a lesser amount of five ounces, the court h…
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The head of a police operation targeting anti-social behaviour in parts of New South Wales has warned there will be more large-scale operations similiar to one conducted on the weekend. More than 800 people were arrested in Sydney, Wollongong and Newcastle over three days as part of what is known as Operation Vikings. Police say several people were also charged after raids on properties in Sydney's south-west in which 10 kilograms of dried cannabis and nearly 500 plants were seized. Vikings commander Superintendent Greg Rolfe says even though the size of the operation varies each weekend, another major one is planned. "Vikings runs at different times throughout th…
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New South Wales police have discovered cannabis with an estimated street value of $1.25 million at a house at Albion Park Rail, south of Wollongong. Police say they were called to the house on the Princes Highway about 9:45pm (AEST) after reports of a fire. They say the fire was put out and about 500 cannabis plants were found throughout the house in a hydroponic set-up. Police say the fire is believed to have originated from an electricity meterbox which had been illegally modified. Author:ABC Date:Tuesday, May 31, 2005. Source:ABC Copyright:© 2005 ABC
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New South Wales police have seized cannabis with an estimated street value of more than $2 million from a house in the Sydney's south-west. There was no one home at the Yagoona residence when police executed a search warrant. An elaborate hydroponic set-up was found at the scene. Police say they found 382 cannabis plants worth an estimated $2,000 each, as well as 25 kilograms of cannabis leaf, worth an estimated $1.5 million. Police are yet to make any arrests. Author:ABC Date:Wednesday, June 1, 2005. Source:ABC Copyright:© 2005 ABC
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