This weeks drug busts include.....

[mr_moppet]

Narooma News

Cannabis seizure

Thursday, 11 May 2006

 

Police have seized cannabis plants with a street value of approximately $450,000 from the South East Forests National Park.

 

The Far South Coast Target Action Group located more than 200 plants about 30 kilometres from Wyndham last week after information received from a member of the public.

 

Police are seeking information from anyone who may have witnessed anything suspicious in the area or who may have knowledge of the plantation.

 

 

Bendigo news

Drug bunker found

Friday, 12 May 2006

 

CANNABIS worth more than $160,000 on the streets has been seized from a hydroponics set-up in an underground drugs den.

 

Kyneton Police Senior Constable Ben McCauley said a man from a Melbourne electricity company had to shut the power off so police could safely enter the booby-trapped lair on the outskirts of Kyneton.

 

Police seized six plants in the haul.

 

A 46-year-old man will appear in Broadmeadows Magistrates Court today on charges including cultivating a commercial quantity of cannabis, theft of electricity and setting a man trap.

 

Sen-Constable McCauley said police intelligence led to the issuing of a warrant to search the bunker at 9.45 am on Tuesday.

 

Five police, a Victoria Police botanist and crime scene photographers were at the bunker with the electricity worker.

 

"We found it within 10 minutes of getting there," Sen-Constable McCauley said.

 

"It took about an hour to open."

 

The power had to be shut off first.

 

"There was an electricity by-pass installed on the property, diverting electricity," Sen-Constable McCauley said.

 

"The doorway into the hydroponic set-up was wired up with an electric force mechanism."

 

Sen-Constable McCauley said the bunker had been planned on the property.

 

"It was purpose-built," he said.

 

The opening was about 600mm square.

 

Access to the water tanks containing the cannabis plants was via a ladder.

 

Sen-Constable McCauley travelled to the Melbourne suburb of Reservoir and arrested a 46-year-old man.

 

He was charged at 12.30am on Wednesday with one count of cultivating a commercial quantity of cannabis, one of possessing a trafficable quantity, another count of possession, theft of electricity and setting a man trap.

 

The man was remanded in custody when he appeared in Castlemaine Magistrates Court later that day.

 

He is expected to make a bail application when he appears in Broadmeadows Magistrates Court today.

 

A Melbourne drugs squad expert said the cannabis seized in the raid was worth about $52,000 at a wholesale price and $95,000 if sold on the streets in ounces.

 

The value would rocket to about $160,000 if it was sold in grams.

 

 

The Daily Telegraph

Drug raids net $800k

 

May 11, 2006

 

CANNABIS worth more than $800,000 has been discovered by police during raids on two Sydney houses.

 

A search of a house in Revesby, in Sydney's west, early yesterday uncovered 189 cannabis plants worth an estimated $600,000 and a sophisticated hydroponics set-up, police said today.

 

A 45-year-old man charged with cultivating a prohibited plant was refused bail. He is due in Burwood Local Court today.

 

In another raid, 130 cannabis plants worth about $260,000 and cultivation equipment were found at a house in Carlingford, in Sydney's north-west.

 

Two women, aged 25 and 32, were charged with several drug offences.

 

The pair was granted bail. They are due in Parramatta Local Court on May 31.

 

 

The weekly times

Epping pot house exposed

 

POLICE ROUNDS

 

MORE THAN 150 cannabis plants were found in an Epping home last Monday (May 1) after they were spotted by the Fire Brigade attending a house nearby.

 

When the home was searched just after 8am, the plants were found within two rooms of the house. The owner of the cannabis plants has not been found.

 

Any person with information can call Eastwood Detectives on 9858 5944 or crime stoppers on 1800 333 000.

 

Three days later, on May 4, 12 cannabis plants were found growing in the yard of an Eastwood home. Police arrested the 32-year-old male resident and took him to Ryde Police Station.

 

He was charged with cultivating and possessing prohibited plants and will appear at Ryde Local Court on May 31.

[WantDaChronic]

"The doorway into the hydroponic set-up was wired up with an electric force mechanism."

 

awesome, im gonna save up and get one

 

shame about all those busts though by the sounds of it, we can expect a HUGE weed drought this year

[mr_moppet]

And this was all in one week,

I'm gonna keep an eye on it to try and see if there is a pattern and then match it up against harder drug busts.

[dsyfer]

a Victoria Police botanist

 

Wonder what strains they got growing?

[raverspec]

A lot of them happened within 20 mins of me. Dayum.

[RobbieGanjaSeed]

Of all the awful writing I've ever read, this is amongst the peak of it. Top of the shit pile without doubt. The "journalst" who wrote the article regarding the 6 plants worth 160 000 bux I'm speaking of especially.

 

Of course gross exageration of prices is somthing we've come to take in our stride when reading this nonsense, but selling your own gear on the streets in gram deals? In fact anyone taking it of his hands and getting rid of it all in that fashion is highly profound to consider.

 

But that's not my point, check out the high school level of creative writing ...

 

Head line- DRUG BUNKER FOUND

 

then:

 

underground drugs den

 

booby trapped lair

 

Describing a 6 plant find as a Haul?

 

Fishing mag articles are better written than that.

 

rob

[budbaker]

There was also one in Adelaide yesterday (Mothers Day) down south that i saw on last nights news. (Kennihans Road, Happy Valley) Some poor fella's lab went up in flames, and when the fire brigade came to put it out they found a heap of MJ plants also. Double Whamie! Bet his mother was happy having to bail him out!