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DRUG BARON LAW RARELY USED... Only one person has substantial property frozen. By Sean Cowan PROPERTY confiscation laws designed to bring down drug dealing Mr Bigs have been used just once since they were intro- duced more than three years ago. The laws allow police to freeze suspected criminals' assets without charges being laid. If the suspects want the property back they must prove it was bought with legally obtained funds. A list of police targets obtained by The West Australian reveals that 11 people have been the subject of unexplained-wealth seizures. Nine of them had already been charged over drug hauls but were arrested before a law was passed that allow…
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POLICE will hold a phone-in next month to gather intelligence on hydroponic cannabis operations. The March 10 phone-in follows a similar operation last year, which resulted in more than 1000 calls. That operation also resulted in a large amount of hydroponic equipment being seized and destroyed. Next month's phone-in is in response to the large number of crops discovered in Adelaide over the past six months. Police say there are 66 shops specialising in hydroponics equipment in Adelaide. The believe many of these are selling equipment and fertilizers to hundreds of cannabis growers. It has been established that many of these shops have clear links to organised…
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Vigilent policing and public input continue to form a winning combination against illegal drugs. A combined police and community effort is one of the major factors behind a series of recent cannabis hauls in the northern Barossa region, which have seen hundreds of kilograms of drugs kept off the streets. Three major busts have been carried out in the Eudunda policing district since December 2003, on rural properties at World's End, Brownlow and Bower. They follow regular smaller busts in the Eudunda, Kapunda and Freeling areas and in total have resulted in the seizure and destruction of more than 5000 cannabis plants. The first large haul occurred on December 12, when 2…
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PRESS RELEASE 16/2/2004… The Network Against Prohibition (NAP) announced today the group will continue it’s campaign of civil disobedience in 2004 to further highlight the unworkability of current Northern Territory drug legislation. Since forming in 2002 as a response to the Labor government’s amendments to the Misuse of Drugs Act, NAP has instigated an ongoing campaign of direct action and public rallying demanding recognition of drug user rights. NAP spokesperson Nicolette Burrows said “2004 will see the Network Against Prohibition continue our campaign against Labor’s ‘drug house’ laws using a variety of strategies, including civil disobedience. NAP urges the com…
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Another bust in todays paper. A rented house on the gold coast was raided. Police found 12 plants with an estimated street value of $32,000. It was a hydro setup. Really seems to be some police commisioners and pollies scoring some points in the bust dept' lately. Elections are in the air!
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TOWNSVILLE will host the country's first random sampling study of drivers to discover what drugs are being used by Australian motorists. The Queensland University of Technology and the Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety Queensland (CARSQ) will conduct their research in the Townsville region from Easter. For two to three months, researchers and local assistants will select random locations throughout the district to conduct drug tests. Deputy Director of CARSQ Dr Jeremy Davey yesterday said the latest technology in saliva testing would be used in the non-invasive tests. "It is not a police program and we will give people $20," Dr Davey said. "Basica…
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A 45-YEAR-OLD man was charged after police found a sophisticated underground hydroponic set-up at two Strath Creek properties, a Bendigo court heard yesterday. Gheorghe Dancints, of Norman Street, St Albans, yesterday pleaded guilty in the Bendigo County Court to four charges relating to the possession and trafficking of cannabis. The court heard Danci was arrested in January, last year, after police raids on properties in Strath Creek and St Albans uncovered about half a kilo of cannabis and two hydroponic set-ups located beneath floorboards in backyard sheds. Prosecutor George Slim said police discovered large underground water tanks, growing tubs, lamps and an "elabo…
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POLICE Commissioner Mal Hyde believes South Australian courts are handing out lenient sentences to some drug dealers. On occasion, judges and magistrates are failing to take into account the harm and negative effects caused by illegal drugs in the community when sentencing dealers, Mr Hyde said yesterday. "From time to time you see penalties, particularly on the supply of cannabis, that you have got to ask yourself whether or not there is a full appreciation of the harm that is being produced by the supply of those drugs," he said. "You have got to ask yourself whether there is a full appreciation of that as is reflected in the penalty." Mr Hyde said courts shoul…
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Australia: Cannabis laws state by state. Decriminalized in Western Australia & South Australia. Tasmania, Victoria, & Queensland Western Australia Decriminalizes Marijuana Possession, Approves Heroin Trials, Rejects Safe Injecting Rooms 11/30/01 The Labor government of Western Australia Premier Geoff Gallop announced a sea change in the state's approach to drugs this week. Delivering its long-awaited response to the state's Community Drug Summit held in August, the government announced it was accepting 44 out of 45 recommendations, including the decriminalization of possession and consumption of small amounts of marijuana and prescription heroin trials. The dru…
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A MAN will appear in court today after police seized hundreds of cannabis plants worth more than two and a half million dollars in Sydney's south-west. Police said raids uncovered more than 1,085 cannabis plants at various stages of maturity, growing in hydroponic equipment inside homes and garages in Canley Vale, Fairfield West, Cabramatta, and Birrong. More than 50 officers from the South East Asian Crime Squad, Drug Squad and Cabramatta and Fairfield Police were involved in the raids that started at 9.30am (AEDT) yesterday. Two men, aged 56 and 39, and a woman, 42, were arrested and taken to Cabramatta and Fairfield police stations for questioning. The 56-year-…
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THREE men were charged with drug offences after police discovered cannabis crops with a potential street value of $16 million in South Australia's mid-north. About 6000 marijuana plants were discovered yesterday growing hydroponically in sheds and buildings on a property at Bower, about 25km north of Eudunda, a police spokesman said. Three men ? a 35 year-old from Brownlow, a 41-year-old from Athol Park and a 31-year-old from Prospect ? had been charged with cultivating cannabis for sale, the spokesman said. He estimated about 640,000 street deals of cannabis had been prevented by the discovery, made by police after a routine assault inquiry about 4pm CDT yesterday.…
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our people have been arrested and cannabis plants with a street value of $16 million seized in a search of a farm in central western NSW. Police said officers discovered 8,000 cannabis plants during a search at a Tullamore property, west of Parkes, on Friday. A 37-year-old Cabramatta man, a 35-year-old Bankstown man and a 46-year-old Bankstown man were arrested and charged with being knowingly concerned with the cultivation of a larger than commercial quantity of a prohibited drug. They will appear in Dubbo Bail Court on Saturday, police said. A 59-year-old Kemps Creek man was also arrested on Friday night near Parkes. He was charged with cultivating a larger th…
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PRISON farm inmates are suspected of growing a drug crop concealed behind the farm in the Gold Coast hinterland. Wildlife rangers on Tuesday found more than 181 marijuana plants hidden in rugged terrain in the Lamington National Park, which backs on to the Numinbah Correctional Centre. The well-tended crop, with an estimated street value of up to $20,000, was 300-500m from the jail's perimeter. Police and prison sources said they suspected that inmates were involved. Water containers and fertiliser found at the scene will be checked for fingerprints, and to establish whether they were taken from the jail. An abandoned marijuana-crop site, complete with a shotgu…
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Police in Wollongong have seized cannabis plants with a street value of more than $200,000 as part of an ongoing drug crackdown on the New South Wales south coast. The operation has been underway for several weeks and has resulted in more than $1.3 million worth of cannabis being seized. The latest operation involved raids on two plantations at Bulli Tops, where 100 plants were discovered. They will be destroyed tomorrow. http://abc.net.au/news/australia/nsw/200402/s1038124.htm
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55-YEAR-old man has been released on bail after police discovered a marijuana crop in a Springvale backyard. Police said 250 plants from 60cm to 180cm were found about 5pm on Monday. They were growing among vegetables and in a shed. The man was charged with trafficking, cultivating, using and possessing marijuana. He was ordered to appear at Dandenong Magistrates' Court next month. http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/st...55E2862,00.html
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