Mother and son charged over cannabis haul

[WantDaChronic]

would love to know the area u live in  (no need to reply) our post office's around my area are very strict you even need to show ID to pick up a parcel if a parcel was sent to me by normal post and i recieved a letter saying i needed to pick it up i would kiss it good by unless its registered post i just reckon sending stuff like that in the mail is just to risky something i would never do (send or recive) seeds are ok as its in a stealth packed and small amount 

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newcastle area, not gonna say where i think i have been asked 2 times to produce ID when collecting packages from aussie post, 1 was using registered post so they had to check, the other was when i said my friend was in hospital but was blazed out of my skull and i think the guy wanted to make sure i was being legit about things

 

i wouldnt kiss a package goodbye just because you have to pick it up, as long as you fill out the slip correctly, you can just say you were picking it for a friend and had no idea of the contents :whistling

[keepleft]

if u ever get any mail 'seized' - mainly by customs coming from overseas, or domestically by the jacks - you claim it is misdirected mail. obviously get it sent to you in an 'alias' of course.

 

i know a 'friend' who had two packages 'mistakenly' sent to him from overseas which happened to contain scheduled substances. both were sent to the 'same' name - which were not him. both were sent to separate PO boxes which were in his name. both packages were seized by customs. he was arrested - went to customs with his lawyer, didnt answer any questions - and his lawyer said they were misdirected mail. no charges were laid as in court, there would not be enough evidence to ensure a conviction.

 

if the package does arrive though and you are under surveilance and you take it. might be an idea to write 'return to sender' and leave it for a while just in case

[WantDaChronic]

if the package does arrive though and you are under surveilance and you take it. might be an idea to write 'return to sender' and leave it for a while just in case

 

i have heard of people leaving seeds in the mailbox for a week for fear they are being watched, etc. i say just take the package, open it and if the door gets knocked down in the process, you say you figured the person wasnt gonna claim it as they dont live here and you wanted to see what was inside, wouldnt say a damn thing else though

[Tom]

A 69-YEAR-OLD grandmother appeared in the Perth Magistrates Court yesterday, charged with trafficking drugs from South Australia.

 

Police allege Evelyn Harvey, of the Perth suburb of Redcliffe, was involved in the trafficking of about 3kg of dried cannabis sent from SA by her son, Johnny. She was remanded on bail to appear again in court on January 30.

 

Author:The Advertiser

Date:30dec05

Source:www.theadvertiser.news.com.au

Copyright:© Advertiser Newspapers Pty Limited

 

[WantDaChronic]

thats bullshit, especially after he owned upto everything

[Tom]

A 70-year-old woman faces confiscation of her assets, which may include her home, because she was pressured by her alcoholic and drug addicted son to help him sell cannabis to pay off his drug debts.

Evelyn Elizabeth Harvey, from Redcliffe in Perth, and Johnny Edward Harvey, 39, of Prospect in Adelaide, were today sentenced in the West Australian District Court after pleading guilty to attempting to possess the prohibited drug with intent to sell and supply.

 

They were caught after the son couriered 3.16 kilograms of dry cannabis heads to his aged-pensioner mother from his South Australian home.

 

The court was told police intercepted the package, replaced the drugs with other material, and arrested the pair after allowing the goods to be delivered.

 

Judge Michael O'Sullivan sentenced the pensioner to a two-year suspended sentence today after accepting her son was the ``prime mover'' in the drug scheme.

 

``I accept that you came to commit this offence because of pressure applied to you by your son,'' Judge O'Sullivan said.

 

The mother of five, who had held the ``misguided impression'' her actions were helping her child, had been humiliated by the publicity surrounding the case.

 

Judge O'Sullivan sentenced the son to two years and eight months jail saying that as Harvey had committed the offence to pay drug debts it was hard to have any sympathy for him.

 

``It is really no significant reason to come to court and say `well, I had to do this because I owed some people some money','' he said.

 

However he noted that Harvey, whose alcoholic father used to beat his mother, had struggled with his own addictions including gambling, drugs and alcohol.

 

He made Harvey eligible for parole but did not say when.

 

Judge O'Sullivan also declared the pair drug traffickers meaning their assets will be confiscated.

In WA, anyone who is found guilty of trafficking drugs over a certain quantity is declared a drug trafficker and their assets are confiscated.

 

WA Director of Public Prosecutions' manager of confiscation, Ian Jones, said today that if the Harveys had any assets the DPP would make an application to ``recover that property''.

 

It is understood that Johnny Harvey has no assets, but his mother may own her own home.

 

Author:Denise Cahill

Date:August 10, 2006

Source:The Sunday Times

Copyright:The Sunday Times