Police Raid

[jackfrost]

another bust as follows:-

 

NSW Police On-Line

 

 

POLICE SEIZE 21 KILOGRAMS OF CANNABIS – KIAMA

28, February 2004

Lake Illawarra police have seized almost 21 kilograms of cannabis during the execution of a search warrant at a house in Kiama.

 

Police located the cannabis in the garage of the Gwinganna Avenue address, as well as hydroponic equipment, seven cannabis plants and two ecstasy tablets.

 

As a result of the seizure, a 24-year-old Kiama man has been charged with cultivate prohibited plant, possess prohibited drug and supply prohibited drug.

 

He has been given conditional bail and will appear in Kiama Local Court on March 23.

 

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[gunjaponic]

21 Kilos ???

Thats ...... 735 ounces isn't it ???

From 7 plants ?????

Wow wee

[jackfrost]

Hey just heard that the above raid was the growers own fault. He was renting a house and didnt pay rent for 4 weeks. The landlord came around and let himself in and found it drying in the garage, and went and told the police.

[Guest]

Have you got a source for that? I like reading about local busts. Kiama is just over the border and near the coast in upper NSW isn't it? He must have had a shitload of lighting.

[jackfrost]

Kiama location is South Coast NSW Near Wollongong

[jonbrown]

yeah sth, i tried to find a url, but couldnt locate one,,, found these random facts tho,,,-

 

The total value of drugs seized in 2003 was an estimated $485 million. That is more than double the $227 million for the previous year. Last year's tally includes 1,679 kilograms of ecstasy worth more than $268 million; 220 kilograms of amphetamines worth more than $110 million; 164 kilograms of heroin worth about $82 million; 992 kilograms of cannabis worth about $17 million, and 37.2 kilograms of cocaine worth about $7.4 million. These latest figures show the drug squad continues to hit harder and harder at the criminal networks that are producing and supplying drugs throughout New South Wales. Almost every day over the past month police have made further cannabis raids. They have been occurring right across the State, showing the strong partnership between the State crime command, the drug squad, and our local area commands. Some examples of the operations include four men arrested at Darling Harbour by Task Force Gain,

which seized $2.7 million worth of amphetamines; a raid at Warwick Farm on 23 January, where the drug squad arrested four men and seized $140,000 worth of heroin; in Dubbo on 29 January, an estimated $60 million worth of cannabis plants were seized. On a property near Tenterfield on 5 February, 30 police executed search warrants and uncovered cannabis plants worth $5 million along with sophisticated drug equipment; at Tullamore near Parkes on 7 February more than 8,000 cannabis plants were seized and four men from Cabramatta, Bankstown and Kemps Creek were arrested and charged; and on 11 February at Fairfield more than 50 officers

from the South East Asian Crime and local commands raided homes at Canley Vale, Fairfield West, Cabramatta and Birrong, finding hydroponic cannabis worth $2.5 million.

There are two further examples. On 29 February in Trundle in western New South Wales police from Lachlan local area command seized more than 4,000 cannabis plants with a value of $8 million, including professionally irrigated crops more than three metres tall, and two men were charged. Finally, last weekend in Marrickville raids on a suburban home yielded 500 hydroponic cannabis plants ranging from 10 centimetres to one metre in height, and worth $1 million. The massive raids netting illegal drugs have a direct impact on crime on the streets of Sydney and New South Wales. The Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research recently found that 70 per cent of police detainees had a recent history of drug use. We will continue to take down the drug cultivators, chemists, suppliers and dealers. Each seizure we make will lead to further intelligence into the criminal underworld of drug crime. The police will be tireless in cracking down on the drug trade in New South Wales. I congratulate them on their outstanding work this calendar year and in previous years.

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I would of thought this country had alot more things to look after than the war on recreational drugs. Things like employment, education, homelessness, drink driving, break ins etc...

bloody idiots, why dont they just start selling the shit themselves? (the government i mean) and then they can tax us all, like they do to us with alcohol and ciggies n shit... the government would make heaps of cash, and the cops could investigate real crimes.

decriminalise em all, and sell most of the drugs in pharmacies i rekon.

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