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F'OR OFFICIAL ('SE O;~'LY
_ JPRS L/9128
5 June 1980
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_ ~l1/or~d~nride Re ort
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- NARCOTICS AIvD DANCEROUS DRUGS -
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- WORL_DWIDE f~FPORT
NIIRCQT I CS AND DAI~GERtJUS DRUGS -
(r,ouo 24; so)
CQNTEi~lTS .
ASIA
~ rtUSTP~~i,IA
Br._if~.fs
Hospital Drugs Theft 1 -
Heroin Addict's Admission 1
Ac~used Marihuana Grower 1
$1-:~Li].lion Heroin Cnarge 2 ~
Heroin Suspect EscapES 2
Drug .;ourier Sentenced ?
Hero:~n Pushing ChargP 2
Dxug Suppliers Sentenced Z
[NDCPdES IA
Life Sentence for Heroin Traffir_ker
(KOrfPAS, ~4 Apr 80) 4
Br:te f s
Erforts to Eradicate Drug Traffic 6
D?~ug Abuse Increasing ~
.;n the country's economy~ The more I lxsten to him t~he
more I worry about the country.
If you would like to talk to me about these things, I
request that you not make an iizspection or establish a
- `-~?i.=":~~~ ~!'his wil~. just be a waste of time because
high-ranking police always say and have the motto that
- "eating alone is not fun,~~ n~eaning that ~ngaging in corrup~
tion as a team from high to low-ranking officials is
r~rofitable. Nothing has improved for tY~e common people or
for our beloved cauntry.
7[ would like to stop here. If I have made any mistakea, I
asx you, since you are a person who is known as being ~n
Y~c~~~est person, to forgive a subordinate who has pure
intentions.
Respect~'u:11y
Staff S~.rgeant Somnuk Rungrotwong
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THAILAND
AMPHETAMINE ARREST IN KAMP~iAENGPHET
- Bangkok DAO 5IAM in Thai 28 Mar 80 pp 7, 10 .
[Article: "Millionaire's Son Arrested for Seliing Amphetamines"]
[Text] One of our reporters has reported that around 2100
hours on 23 March 1980, Police Major Bamrung Koetdi, a chief
~ inspector from the Muang district, Kamphaengphet Province,
police station, led a force of polic~nen disguiseci as truck
drivers and stopped for gasoline at the Suphachai Borikan
gas startion, which i5 located at the Kilometer 2 point on the
Kamphaengphet~Phichit highway in Naimuong commune~ Muang _
district, Kamphaengphet Province. The station is owned by
Mr Hong S uphaatphanit and is managed by Mr Chaiyon
Suphaatphanit, age 23.
The police had made investigations and found that this gas
stat~ion was an important amphetamine sales point. The police
have been trying to arrest the distributers but they have -
escaped every time. Thus, at the time mentioned abov~, the
_ police from th e Muong district police station disguised
themselves as truck drivers and stopped for gas at the
station mentioned above. After fiiling the truck with
gasoline, th e police asked the station att endant if they could
purchase some amphetamines. At that time, Mr Chaiyon was at
~he station and he sold some amphetamines to the police.
The police, therefore, revealed their identity and siezed
one large bottie of amphetamines. They searched Mr Chaiyon
and found an 11 millimeter pistol, with no registration
number, and seven bullets. The police, therefore, took and
_ turned Mr Chaiyon aver to Police First Lieutenant Khruarig
Bansaeng, the officer on duty at the Muang district,
Kamphaengphet Province, police station, for detention and
further handling of the case.
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THAILAND
' BANGKOK-CHIENG RAI HEROIN SMUGGLERS ARRESTED
B angkok BAN M~JANG in Tha i 1 Apr 8 0 pp 1, 16
[Rrticle: "Heroin Valued at 100 Million Baht Seized Just
B ef or e Shipment'~ ]
[Text] A northern merchant who was carrying heroin val.ued
at 100 milliun baht and who was preparing to deliver it for
shYpment abruad was arrested. ~olice had learned about this
and sent police to intercept him. The person who was to
ship the hexoin abroad did not come to pick up the goods and
so escaped.
A detective reported to Major General Sanguan Klongchai, the
commander of the Sam Yot Crime Suppression Divi~ion, that a
shipment of h~soin was being smuggled into Bangkok �rom the
north for shipment abroad. The exact time and place wese
~ reported and, therefore, Police Colonel Toem Sanitwong Na
Ayuthaya, the commander of the seventh subdivision, was
ordered to make an investigation and make the arrests .
Thus, at ti900 hours an 31 March, Colonei Toem Sanitwon~ Na -
l~yuthaya, t4gether with Police Major Choengchai Wannawichit,
an iraspector with Section 2, seventh subdivision, and a
i=:Z~=:�::~ Fc~~.i~e, w~ and hid at the Sawatdi te.rinis courts on
Soi 30 (Sai Sawatdi), Sukhumwit Road, Khlongtan commune,
Phrakhanong district. At the time mentioned, a white Fiat,
_ license plate No 4K3207, drove up and parked across from th e
tennis courts. There w'ere four men in the car.
- FVhile waiting for their contact to arrive and pick up the
h~eroinp the four znen went and bought soft dxinks from a sta11.
T~~;~3"' 't:S~F ~`.Q?f,:~~.s c~urts. The police came out of hidirag and
~earcher~ the car. They found eight packages of No 4 hesoin
wrapped in brown paper and sealed with glue, each rectangular
package being about 6 inches long. The heroin weighed 6.685
_ kilograms and had an in-country value of 7 million bath or
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100 million baht on foreign markets. It was hidden in i:he
truck of the ca.r . The police took the four suspects and the
heroin to the Sam Yot Police Crime Suppression Division for
further investigaL~on.
From the investigation it was learned that Mr Prasoert
Apiwattanakun, age 43, who lives at No 1855/7, Soi Sakun~hai,
Charansanitwong Road, Bangphlat cQmmune, Bangkok Noi district,
was the owner of the white Fiat that was carrying the heroin.
The others were Mr Prathuang Kaeophom, age 52, who lives
at No 147/14, Tharam commune, Muang district, Phetburi
Pra~vince; Mr Adisak Chanthakiratikun, age 40, who lives at
No 219, Soz 5, Muang district, Chieng Rai Province, who is a
merchant in Chieng Rai Province and who is the person who
brought the heroin from Chieng Rai; ar~d Mr Kan Manichot, age
41, who lives at No 63/40, Talat Khwan commune, Muang
district, Nonthaburi Province.
Mr Adisak Chanthakiratikun conf essed that about a month ago
he met Mr Daeng or Siauon, last name unknown, about 40 years
- old, who had come to Chieng Rai and who hired him for 1~0,000
- baht to take the heroin to the piace agreed on. Mr Adisak then
cantacted Mr Prasoert, the owner of the car, to have him .pick
up the heroin in Chieng Rai. Mr Prathuang Kaeophom and Mr Kan
Manichot went along as guards. But it appears that Mr Daeng
vr Siauon found out about the police and, therefore, did not
come to pick up the heroin before the otherswere arrested.
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TH~ ILAND
MORPHINE SEIZED IN HAD YAI
- Bangkok DAO SIAM in Thai 5 Apr 80 pp 1, 16
[Article: �'Mor~,h~ine S eized in Had Yai"]
[Text] Morphine valued at 1.2 million baht was seized in
downtown Had Yai. Just before it wa~ to be shipped abroad,
police intercepted it. The suspects tald conflicting stories
impiicating each other and it is stili not known who the -
leader is . The drug dealers are being guarded, closely
because of the fear that someone disgua.sed as a relative will
cc~me ~nd, paison them.
A DAO SIAM reporter in Songkhla Province has reported that
at 1700 hours on 3 Apri1, Police Lieutenant General Amphorn
Chitrabatima, the commissioner of the Commissioner�s Office
~f the ]?rovincial 4, together with Police Ma jor Generai
Phingphan Netranrangsi, the deputy commissioner, and pmlice
officials from the Commissioner's Office of the Provincial 4
- in Songkhla Province, led a force on a missiox~ since they had
=~2arn~ ~.hat a group ~f drug dealers were going to meet to
sell d:rugs at a hotel in downtown Had Ya. They therefore went
- ta the ~I'afpei Hotel located on Soi 2, Phadungphakdi Road,
r1 r~:, ciistric~, SongkYxla Province.
When the police arrived at the hotel, they immediately we~t
and searched room No 209. It appQars ~:hat they arrived jus~
w~iei~ ina j~r dr~xg dealers were in the pr.ocess of buying the
drug~ as mentioned. Also, on a table was a large bag
containing four bars of morphine weighing 14 pounds. The
esi:.irnatecl street value in this countxy is 1.2 milli~x~ ba~~t
n:~u, ir ~lc~ abroad, the value would a.lmost daul~~.e e The
~ii x~ia~.~ fz~~m the Commissioner ~ s Affice of the Proviticial 4
took the e~vidence and the suspects and turned the~n aver to
Yalice Captain Prachum Phetraphimphorn, the officer on duty
at the Had Yai district police station.
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= From the investigation, it was learned that th~ z~ames of the
suspects are Mr Su Si~ngse, age 26, who lives at No 1/3,
village 7, Samnaktaeo, Thung Mo commurie, Sadao subdistrict,
Songkhla Province= Mr Wichai Saetieu, age 23f and Mr Suphot
Saer~rong, age 21, who lives at No 17, Tung Mo commune, Sadao
si~bdistrict, Hai Yai district, Songkhla Province. The '
suspects confessed and also implicated several others. The
authorities took special care and placed them under close
guard because of the fear that these others, disguised as
relatives, would come to visi.t them and put poison in their ~
food in order to kill them so they cannot make any furtY~er
disclosures concerning the identity of the leaders. This `
_ ma jor haul of drugs intended far shipmznt abroad was possible
because the police had prior information.
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- THAII~AND
BRIEF'S
HEROIN SUSPECTS CHARGED--Mr. Norma,n John Walker, 30, who lived in Sydney before
his arrest in Thailand in August, appeared in a Bangkok Crimina,l Court today
[2 Apri1] with two other people. They are chaxged with possessing 750 grams
o~ pure heroin with intent to sell it, The drug ha,d a retail street value of ~
at least $500,000. Tt convicted the three accasEd could be sentenced to death
and executed by machine gun. The two other defer~dants are a Canadean, Mr. Bar-
ry Ackerma,n, and a Tr.ai woman ~name not gi~rsn] who is alleged to have acted
as a~ent in the sale of the heroi.n. [Excerpt] ~Melbourne TI-iE AGE in English
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c.nNnun
CASt. A(~AINST LF.CAL HCROIN llISCUSSED
Vancouver THE VANCOUVER SUN in English 28 Apr 80 p AS
[Article by I:d Cosgrove]
[Text]
~ HE DRUG CULTURE hea created Newamao Geny Bellett, in a story in The
!te own mythology. Cultivated by Vancouver Sun aIeroin: Make It Le~al; -
well-m~ednQ emateur observere Pege Five, Oct. proposed two poatible -
and th ~eripheral profeesionab of eolutiow to the problem oi heroin addic�;
- tt~a dru~ ec~, the mytbobay deniee the tion: either ~hoot the addicta or pmvide
- hard leeeoni oi esperlence uid rubatitutee them wlt6 free, leQal heroiu.
flction to= i~et, oplnion for tao~vledge. Bellett noted "with relief" th~t the court
The fanta~e ~urroundio~ the u~e - and deciaion rettlnQ atid~ tbe compuLory her-
abub - ot nafrcotlc~ are tlen~erous. They oin treitment ~ropam had cleared the
lull tho inaoceat, tik nnwary, end the reck- wey for tha a4option of the BritLh ~yetem _
lees lnto,n acceptance oi a way of llfe that and for exercfiln~ oontrol aver the u~e of
i~ ultlmately reli-0eat~vctive. heroin tbrouQh the prov~'~Oa oi leB+~Y p?e-
T6e cl~mor ln some quarte� for the ~~~~~~�d��e~.
leQ~lisatlon oiheroIn i~ the mat alarin~ - "We mlght ea well ~ive up on the iualdes
- and moet d~eroua - maalfe~t~tioa oi the we've ~ noar," wmte Bellett. "They'II go
mytholo~y oi the drug culture. ~ to the ~ve aravin~ a fix. We ahould con-
Leaal, cllniceUy adminiatered heroin ~ the ne:t genention, preven~
would decrlml~ul~e t~~e dru~ cul~re, it Ie inB creatlon oi yet another brood oi ad-
- u~ued, eince addicte would no l~n~er have
to tteal, murder, trafiic, or proatitnte The only way to do thi~, he said, ie to ~
them~elves to teed their heblt. Yt would adopt the Brl~ah eyetem. "Consldering the
provide co~+ol over the ~pread of hemia meea we tind ourselves in today," he
tbuae by elimfnatia~ the illlcit anArk~et. aoked, "would qe be worae ofiT"
In t6e iall p~ 1~78 we heard much irom An eumitlotion oi the eituation ln Brlt~ -
those advoc~tln~ the adop~on oi the eo- eln lndieete~ the ann~ver to thet questioa i~
called "Britl~h ~ stem" of leQelised heroin yea.
for r?iBietere�,t~dlcte aa the ~olutlon to the -
c6 .ronic probloin of drug abnae in this pmv- For example: rather thaa acting as a
Ince. �.l~ulwark agxiast the spread oi addiction to _
Theee ar~umente went virtually unc6al- t~e next generation, the Brltiah prngram _
- lenged by any rnmpetent authority, leaw 1~as served ae the epawning ground for a
- in` the improedon that they were right. new Beneration of hernin usere. The myth-
'I'bis impre~eboa w~a reintorced by a nam- maDcera who use Britain as an example of
ber oi docton who apoYe out in iavor ot tbe how to deal with heroin addictioa eimply
~r1Wh ~yetem. 6ave not done their homework:
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To etart with, the origin ot Britaln's hemin�meintalned" eddlcte on the govera-
Ie~sUzed heroln meintenaace ditfere trom mant proQram are not ~bove peddllng their
H,~.'e. 'Tha ~rideh ey~tem w~e introdaced aurplue ou the black m~rket, nor above re-
:n tho 1920a t~ provlde maintenance do~ea crattin~ n~a cuetomero~to t6e ~oy oi neri
tor pereoa ~vbo qad 6~ecome depepdent ~a cotic euphori~ to m~te t~uck, And
th~ reeult of m~dlcel troatment; it we~ aot romember thut thle crimfal ~ctlvlty ir a
- bro~ht in u ~ aneatu oi turnin~ oddicta rponteneoue alopment in a aroup wtth-
aw~q from crime. In that context, even the out ~ traditiow,,t crl~nloal b~iek~und,
_ rs�~bn~te fo~r onr edoption of the Britiih I~oet addicte In thle provlnce ~pere crltni-
,~~r: u'",1^~y~4'A~a~kitC.
.aivl's A'~iose~~hey etarted ueing heroln.
- But the raaia lrratlonAlity le thlnklnQ Many acqtiited the1~ }Ublt while ln prieon,
th~t the ~y~tem le world~~ in Briteln, It Very tew B,C, ~a~o1n adcUCt~ ~ro torced
Iw't. The leQel pracrlption ot herol�r lu~e 1e~o tholx dep~ndla~? or io~dvu~ently ad-
ceured more probleme thaa lt hAi wlved, dictad,
to the paiat thtt BriWn le reducln~ the With new, tighter control, the number of
number ad peno~ dr~p~ ~eroia and g1v- u~en ca~da~ fato tba arlt?~~? dLm1n.
~ in~ them methsdoae instesd. iehed but aot the pumber oiueera in Brit-
Rather thaa preventing the eprcad o! 8~' ~
~ t~sro;n uee, the availAbillty ot high grede Also, two eipilficsnt thin~r h~ppenod:
hemin throu~h t6e le~al ey,niem 6a~ had the prlce of le~pUy preacribed hesoln,
~ the oppoelte etiect. In 1864 - before wan- which i~ eold for the equtvaknt� ad~~'1,8b _
derlnQ ilower children can7ied the drug tor eix 10 mili~{am~~ypqddt~palc _
culture to Watern Euroye froa? ~ucd hud- ~ablete, We~reneed draatlcally aq t~p Wkit
con eentrea Ae VAncouver, San B'raaclaw, m~rket, thereby Creating � trepaendpus
~ and New York the Home O!lYce reportad Pro~! tor thoie ~Wl able ta obtaln t~e aari
9d heroln u~era oq maintenince. Ei~4t ~c. At the s~me tiiue Impo~ted~hii+oln
Yeu'e later tbe pumber wae Z,~40 and 8b per ~~at Mia made iw tlret appdar- -
~~n' ~f t~em wsre under the a~e oI20. ~ ~nce opthe tn~rkef. . -
Ttie U.B., detpite its v~unted legal ker-
By 1878 Britain had an estimated 10,000 oin syetem, b~i bqcome i~ ~n~ uu;~et
heroin uaen, oi whom approximatety 2,OOp for illlcit drug~, p mubt aurtnred ~y t6e
were reBbtered in the malnteaxnce p1AO. av~bility ot le~al heroln. _
What caused this dra~tic increae~ !n With tbe lncreaee la suppliet aadprofite,
ueenY After ~ cloee examination of the ~ P~lem of control and enforcemenf of
nmgr~m, authoritiee in the Uaited Hing- the�~Dpngeroue DruQ Act toot~op new
dom concluded t,hat the main eource of au~- ~e~e6one. For the moet pnrt Brlt~l con� -
~ly c~f Wi~tt heroia uban ~va~ t~e "over ab- centrated ite eiforte on th~ tmporterd of
Acrtbin~'' M hemin ~o re~ia4ered addicti by Mian 6eroln, with ~ome r~~ultu~ pVhUa.the
A eanall number of doctoFe, Iieroln wers number of illt�It heroln aei~um wes ne~ll- .
~~a;~le~~=red ~n t~e plan wera given more ~blo in 1~71, i~ 1978 drug er~forcementofti�
~1w~~~ th~ t~sH _*xtuir~ aad wara b~ra ciele eeised a 46 pounde.
~>>i~aa tk~W eur~~!x~ on the atreet. The moet recent atAtittice irom 4De
I'~OdTI@ O~C~ fh01p $,40U /81f W'88 0~ CAElt2�Ol-
- In the araument 4or AdopUun of the Brit- 1ed d~~r ia 1S`l8 imountina to 12't poundo,
teh pro~m the itnpnoeion is created that twice tiut of the previous year.
a~t~t~~ndminietered maintenAnce pro- An article by David Flete6er fa~the July -
~.m wo�ld eliminate much of the drug- 20,1879 isaue of London'a Daiu? Tel~graph -
related crime in B.C. Britain's experience quoted D~~id ~t~ner, coordln~tor of Brit�
nrovee kh~ oypoelts. aia'4 standing coniarenco on druQ qbwe,
'?~~r~relni~! ^.rime ie ap ib t.~~ U.K. a thw~ly: "I believe arltain could be on the
'.nvc~.; ~~etton of he:�nin uesre ~on the brink of a heroin epldemtc. The panic
+a~o y~roqam revealod thst 64 per cent about dr~i;a In.the 1980s wa~ over 76U ad� -
wero tonvicted oi son~e crlme durl~rg the dicts. W~e now ha4ve over 4,1~ Ia~c) oi~tcial-
ly... "
i:,Tai year ihey we~ o~ ~air,t~a~aLee - acd .
e,ot tk~e leaet Sector ia the growing illicit Oi t6e leQal malnteusnce~ rystem, oae -
m~r:et ~or 5~.~l~. Evea ":ap-abidWg, ~dd1~t t~1_sl ~g~L+pt: "In thQ ~nd the hu-
mlliatioa and re,gimentation iaa't worth it =
acd you ~o to the str~at fox a flx."
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The ai~icle conclude~i that maintenance
pro~rama d4 nothln~ to reaolve the "weitl
.ed peyCholoacal problame t6st luclfee ~
eome ; eopli toaard addiction in the !!rt
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- 80 le~~l heroin ie not the annter,to me ;
problem oi herola eddletioo ~nd her+oin-
related crimo, wlutevar you 6Mr from the -
~rmcheir experto. Examla~tlon provet ~
itQlll~lat OOt Ol1~y fYU~y ~ da11~l~ ~
~ 011~. j
~ Nor ie lt Qood ~nou~q t~at tome doctori j
~upport it. T6e aeu epldemic of le~al dtva ~
ebure ia thL provlnce today pa~, ~fte~~kl, '
created by ttie~e ume docton pnacrWin~ ,
- le~al~ mood-~lterin~~ ond eddictlve dn~.
Tho cs~e for le~al heroin Qrows we~lcer
ae time paOeM and Brltain'e problem eka- -
latee. The "Britieh eretem" wae ia9t
another good i~ea th~~ went wron~.
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CANADA
"t'1�;I~;NA(,I.ItS Cli~lt(,I?D IN COCAINE SEIZU1Zl: AT MIRAB~L AIRI'ORT
~ttawa '1'HG WI:EK},Nll CITI`1,EN in English 29 Mar 8U p 3
['Cext )
Thrce Centretown teenagcrs havc break and flown into Canada earlier'
bccn charged with conspiracy to this week.
import cocaine after an estimated He said about 180 grams of 90-�
$60,000 worth of the drug was per-cent-p�re cocaine was siezed.
_ siezed by custom~ officers at Mira- Because of the purity of the drug
bel Airport earlier this week. it would normally be diluted at least
RCMP investigators have identif- three times, tripling the amount for
ied the trio as Joseph Flued, 17, of street sale. ~
436 Gilmour St., apt. 4, Paul Be- "When we had enough informa-
~'~ard, 17, and Richard Stevenson, tion we had the officers at Mirabel
18, both of 326 Wavcrley St., apt. search a suspect," Bradley said. ~ ~
~ ~ The arrangements were compli-
Alt threc attcnd locai high cated and it $ppears the same route
schoulc. may have been used on prior occa- -
B~dard and Stevenson were re- sions, police say.
~ mandcd uut of ~:ustody until next
wcck in rrovincial court Thursday.
f~lucd is in c;ustody at St. Jerome,
Que., near Mirabel, and will be
trantifcrred to Ottawa sometime
ncxt wcek. .
R(' M P drug syuad of~cers said
- Friday the investigation began two
- week~ ago after "strong street ru-
murs" were picked up by undercover
- agcnts.
Staff Sgt. ,lack &adley said the
cocainc was purchased in Bogota,
C'olumbia, during the March school -
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CANAUA
FIVE-YLAR SLNTENCE FOR CONSPIRACY TO TRAFFIC IN COCAINE
Ottawa TH~ WELKEND CITIZEN in English 3 May 80 p 5
[Article by Tony Cote)
- [Text] -
n rrovin~ial c~~urt judgc During the Chateau 'bdckground, parcntagc or
I~ridav dcscribcd an Otta- cunvcrsation, tapcd by thc wcalth but the scriousness
wa man's behaviour as RCMP, Mussells expres- of the crime."
"cxcmplary" f~ri~~y before sed dismay that there were Before sentencing Fri-
scntcncing him tu five only 250 grams of cocaine day the judge commented
ycars in ~enitentiary for $100,000 worth - in- that "it became clear he
conspir:icy to traffick co- stead of double tha~t was a willing partner in
~~~n~_ amount. got a guy who disposing of the drug."
Howard Campbcll Mus- sells it for me." Archambault noted the
sclls, 35, of 100 Strathaco- "He normally does a amount involved would
na nvc., pleaded guilty to quarter of a pound a week normally be stepped on
thc ch~+rge at a March for me but will handle four times before being
cc~urt hearing before Judge this." xold on the street.
.loffrc Archambault. ~ussells was charged The judge said charac-
The plca came aftcr a W~th possession of marijua- ter evidence indicated
prcliminary hcaring in na in Greece during the ".you are a young person
- '60s but fled the country in your best productive
which taped conversations W;th his arents' hel be-
- betwecn him and a West p P years. You impress me as
Gcrman at the Chateau fore he could be prose- a model cilizen."
l.auricr F~otel werc played cuted. But, he added, "I have
in c:ourt. � His father is a retired had the opportunity to see
The German, Konstan- drmed forces General and the victims of heroin and
tine Graft Der Phalen, While growing up Mussells cocaine."
was arrested at Mirabel spent many years in Eur- "I must forget his good
A i r p o r t a y e a r a g o, ope where he met the behaviour and background.
plc:~dcd guilty to a charge West German. It is extremely painful at
of importing and is serving Aftar hearing that evi- this time - I must sen-
dence in March Archam- tence you to five years in
a scvcn-year sentence. bault said: "We don't sen-
penitentiary."
tence someone for his Defence counsel Leo-
nard Shore said an appeal
is likely.
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CANADA
BRIEFS .
LSD, WEAPONS SEIZED--A Maidstone Townehip woman is facing several charges
af ter Ontario Provincial Police officers seized a quantity of suspected
LSD and a number of weapons in a raid Thursday night. Membera of the -
~ London OPP drug squad and Belle River OPP officers found a quantity of
the suspected drug and eight guns, both riflea and ahotguns, in a resi-
dence at 140 Renaud Line. Whtle they were unable to give a specific
quantity for the drug, police eatimate the atreet value at $10,000. Donna
Genevieve Upham, of 135 Rourke Lane, RR 3, Belle River, was released on a
promiae to appear in provincial court May 5 on a charge of posaesaion of
- a reatricted drug for the purpoae of trafficking. [Text] [Windsor THE -
WINDSOR STAR in English 25 Apr 80 p 3]
PCP DRUG LABORATORY--Montreal (CP)--RCMP agents raided a drug laboratory
yeeterday, arrested aix men and seized 10 1/2 pounds of the illicit drug
PCP. An RCI~ spokesman eaid the aeizure was one of the larg~st ever made
in Canada. He could not eatimate the s[reet value of the aeizure. The
eix Montreal-area men were arrested and are awaiting court appearances
to face various charges related to the clandestine laboratory, in the
basement of an office building in the city's financial district. PCP is
known popularly as angel dust. It is usually taken orally in capsules.
~Te~t] [Toronto THE GLOBE AND MAIL in English 29 Apr 80 p 4J
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JAIL FOR HEROIN IMPORTING--A 30-year-old Ottawa painter was handed a three-
year prieon aentence Wednesday for attempting to import 21 grama of highly
refined heroin from Sri Lanka and Thailand. Provincial aourt Judga
Bernard Ryan told Robert Gordon Holtom that lawmakers considered~his crime
serious enough to set 14 yeara as the maximum sentence. [Text] [Ottawa -
TEiE CITIZEN in Engliah 1 May 80 p 3]
LIQUID HASHISH SMUGGLING CASE--The laet of four men arrested four yeare
ago in a$1-million liquid haehish smuggling case will be aentenced
tomorrow for conspiring to traffic in the drug. Branislav Fencl, 28, was
convicted yesterday of conspiracy to traffic, but was acquitted of con-
epiring to import Che resin, The trial was told 60 pounds of the thick,
dark-brown oil was brought into Canada from Switzerland concealed in
eamples of construction material. Mr. Fencl was the only accused to be
freed on bail after the May 1976 arxests. He put up an $80,000 condominium
in the Harbour Castle L'Appartel on the Toronto waterfront as security and
promiaed that he would not leave Toronto. He vanished and the Crown
eeized the apartment. The other three men went to trial, were convicted
of importing the drug and received prison terma of aeven to 10 years. ,
Mr. Fencl, a former Czech national who became a Canadian citizen, was
described at their trial by Crown counsel Michael Dambrot as the Canad~,~n
distributor of the drug. Last November, Mr. Fencl turned up in Vancouver,
where he surrendered to the RCMP. Hia trial began last month and he was
found guilty yesterday by Madam JusL�ice Janet Boland. [Text] [Toronto -
THE GLOBE AND MAIL in Engliah 15 May 80 p 5] ~
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA
BRIEFS -
NARCOTICS VICTIM--A man from Prague I who consumed a large amount of a
narcotic was brought to the Resuscitation Center sfiortly before noon
May 15. His condition was pronounced as serious. [Prague PRACE in Czech
16 May 80 p 6]
HASHISH ARREST--A private entrepreneur from Istanbul was apprehended by
cuatoms agents on an international express train at the main railroad
= station in Decin. Almost 3 kg of hashish were found concealed in plastic
bags among personal effects in the subject's luggage. An investigation
- wri11 reveal what were the intentions of this "businessman with hot atuff."
[Prague ZEMEDELSKE NOVINY in Czech 21 May 80 p 4]
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BRAZIL
I1EW POLICE CHIEF PLEDGES FIGHT AGAINST DRUGS
- Rio de Janeiro JORNAL DO BRASIL in Portuguese 25 Apr 80 p 28
iTea.L] 1'c~zterd~y in taking over the Office of the Re;ional Superintendent
_ of ~~:~e .ederal Pclice in Rio de Janeiro, Commissioner Roberto Felipe de
Arau~o Porto--who took the place of Commissioner Edir de Carvalho, who held
the position on a temporary basis--said: "I assume the office of super-
ineendent, confident in its manpower and certsin that it is already aware
of the ~ob to be done, aiming at an energetic fight without any boundary
linea against the enemies who are devaetating and operating in varioue
criminal ways, primarily with drugs."
~ The takeovQZ� c~remany took place in tlle auditorium of the Federal Police
Building with about 300 persons present, including Security Secretary
Edmundo Murguel; Col Anibal de Melo Henrique, commandinb general of the
Military Police; and Federal Police Director Col ~Ioacir Coelho.
. The new au~erintendent delivered a T~rief address and the ceremony lasted
about 20 minutes: "Drugs are evil and, through the most unspeakable traf- -
fickers, they are intended to wipe out and mutilate the wholesome spirit
~f our youth and also to win th~ir mind to ways of life not accepted by
~~~cazilian ~~c~iety," said th~e new coTmr?issioaer who believes that drugs
canstitute c~ne af the most important things that must be combated, "in
'~~ne ~ae ~~c~ -~ct mai~age to do ~wa~ with them through an effort to reduce
`?;,~ir effectiveness here in Rio de Janeiro." -
Concerning smuggling, the commisaioner said that "this is a cancer which
i~~lps damage the economy, far beyond other ma~or crimes which still hold
outstandir.g p~.;s-itlons in our Brazilian crime statiotics, turning up in
such forms as fraud against social aecurity, swindle, embezzlement, cor-
rupr.io;i, tFx ev~sion, counterfeiting of money, ancl many others, causing
,~1~^,_,^e r-~, th~ c~�r,�a-y ~5 3 L7~1G].2? botl~ ~.n f~.na.~cial and adminis-
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~xAZZ~
,
ANONYMOUS CALLS LEAD TO TRAFF~CKERS' ARRESTS, DRUG SEIZUR~.5 ~
Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 2 May 80 p 9
[Text] "To report drug traffickers, phone 243-9460 and 223-94-06," this ~
appeal, issued 4 monthe ago by drug commisaioner Aloisio Rusao, is now
producing good results: since then, 25 tirafficlcers have been sent to prison,
on the average, and 670 kilograms of pressed marihuana have been con-
fiscated, along with 2,011 packets, and $26, small quantities ~or sale to _
marihuana addicts,and 607 bags of cocaine.
,
Among the 187 reports received during that period of time, 30 percent were '
f alae; these were cases of squabbles between neighbors or between tc~zant -
and landlord, disputes involving street brawls, and noisy behavior dis- ;
_ turbing the peace. The commisaioner's office asks that only bonafide re-
ports be made becsuse they alone can help make it possi~le to send drug
traffickere to prison. Nobody has to identify himself and if a peraon does :
give his or her name, it will be kept confidential.
I
The appeal springs from the intensification in drug traffic which raas much ~
easier to combat than a few years ago. In the past, almost all of the I
sales outlete were in the elums to which the addicts could go at lesser
r�isk than now. With the new riakg involved, many addtcts purchase drugs
in larger quantitiea in the hill areas in order tY:en to renell them to '
other addicts. The number of traffickers has tnus been increasing and so -
has their area of operation.
"If new and more effi~ient methods were not adopted in the fight against
drugs, we would be facing disastrous consec~uences within a couple of years,"
said an officer at the Office of the Drug Commissioner. "TI:e problem of
drugs must be handled within the conte~ct of national security because of
the di~2ension it is assuming."
According to police officers in this sector, drug a~dicts for the most -
part do not need to do any trafficking them3elves but wind up becoming in- �
volveci in criminal trading themselves:
"Contrary to what happened in the case of the traffickers in the past,
they are the children of well-adjueted parents, they are the friends o�
friends, they treat the young people with much affecCion but they allow ,
themselves to become involved in this sart of thing, out in the atreets,
due to peer pressures," a police officer said. ~ ;
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BxAZiL
COCAINE, MARIHUANA TRAFFICKER ARRESTED IN BOTAFOGO
- Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 1 May 80 p 13
[Tetitl After 2 r~ontt~s of i.nvestj.gation, police officers from the Office of
C~:e Dr~,~g Commissioner, in Jacarepagua, arrested the trafficker Jose Carlos
de Souza, alias "Cacau" or "Maracana," 33, the operator of a drug sales
outlet in Morro Azul, in Botafogo, charged with having ordered the murder
- of the student Ivan Franca Salgado dos Santos, of Santa Ursula University,
in May 1978.
"Cacau" denied having ordered the killing of the student but confirmed
that he was se~lin~ cocaine bags at high schocls in Botafogo in prices
between 1,OC10 and 5,000 cruzeiros. In the shed in Morro Azul, which he
and other traffickers were using as a storehouse, the police found 60
~ packets of drugs, 1 kilogram of marihuana, and 1 revolver.
"Cacau" was firet .fingered by a drug trafficker by the name of Paulo Cesar
de Souza, alias "Paulinho," who was arrested several weeks ago; the tip
. was corroborated by an informant in the area. This informant provided the
license number for one of the cars used by "Cacau," a blue Volkswagen;
- police were able t~ iearn the trafficker.`s address through the nrior
cwiter-f�60 Soldado Diogo Martins Street, Jacarepagua--and that is where they
nabbed him, on the afternoon af the day before yes~erday.
- On the premis es, police officers seized the 1980 Puma automobile, with
- licenae plates BW 5634, purchased on the spot by "Cacau" from a car
dealer in Ti~uca for 210,000 cruzeiros, plus two checks, one for 45,000
_ cruzeiros and the other one for 5,000 cruzeiros, coming from cocaine sales
during that month. The ~:raffic~r confessed that drug sales earned him
between 20,000 and 30,000 cruzeiros per day.
Report
Shortiy after he was put in prison, "Cacau" denounced other traffickera in
Morro Azul, including a man known only as "Jorginho" and Antonio Paulo da
Silva, the man who was at the sa les outlet, taking care of people interested
in drugs. At night, "Cacau" accompanied palice off icers to the shed on
the hill but Antonio Paulo escaped after a brief exchange of shots.
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According to the officers, "Cacau" did not frequent this place; he went
there only to bring druga and get his money.
- The trafficker wae identified aa having ordered the killing of the atudent
(on 12 May 1978 on Farani Street in Botafogo) when police officers arrested
the murderer, Roberto de Andrade Tiburcio, ,alias "Beto Tiburcio," one of the
peraons reaponsible for aecurity at the sales outlet in Morrq Azul. At
that time, "Beto Tiburcio" said that Ivan had purchased drugs and did not
pay, which is why he had received orders to kill him. Although tlie murder er
did not reveal the name of the man who had put out the contract on the
student, police officere are certain that it was "Cacau."
~ At the office of th~ drug commiasioner, "Cacau" denied that he was involved
in the case; he also denied having issued the order to kill the traff icker
"Caveirinha," who was murdered about 2 months ago on Dois de Dezembro
Street, in Catete.
~ Commissioner Aluisio Russo placed "Cacau" in solitary to "prevent any
trouble" with another trafficker by the name uf Dirceu Candido da Silva,
who was arrested a month ago in Flamengo Park and who had been invading
his "turf" in Botafogo. Today, the coumdsaioner will send a report to
the lOth Police Precinct to provide information on the imprieonment of
and charges againat "Cacau" in the case of the student's death.
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BRAZIL
MAJOR DRUG DISTRIBUTOR ESCAPES ARRESTS IN TURANO
Rio de Janelro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 1 May 80 p 13
fText] The trafficker Mario Chimbica, who controls the 3istribution of
- marihuana and cocaine on Turano Hill and who is one of the men most wanted
by the Rio police, escaped arrest on the afternoon of the day before
~ yesterday wr`n police officers from the 8th precinct were looking for the
university student Cesar Luis, alias "Cezinha" on Paulo de Frontin Avenue, -
at the moment he was getting ready. to del3ver 2 kilograms of marihuana to
an addict. This information was given yesterday to the police by "Cezinha"
himself.
Mari.o Chimbica was there to check on the purchase of a big shipment of
marihuana with "Cezinha" when he noticed that the police were approaching.
Commissioner Elson Campello, who led the group that arrested the student,
tried to follow the trafficker but he disappeared on a staircase near lli
Bispo Street leading to Turano Hill. Yesterday morning, the same squad
from the 8th Precinct seized 700 grams of pressed marihuana in a shed in
the Escondidinho slum, in a combined operation with the Military Police.
"Cezinha" yesterday af ternoon again tal.ked to Commissioner Campello and
gave him new infozmation on drug traffic in the areas of Rio Comprido and
Santa Teresa, In the morning, the student had a nervous breakdown in the
8th Prec~.nct lockup and had to be helped by a medica.l team from the Sousa
rlguiar Hospital. "Cezinha," who during his nervous breakdown attacked
one of the other prisoners ir~ the cell, told doctors that the seizure
was due to the fact th~t he had not gotten any drugs. The student had been _
a cocaine and marihuana add~ct since the age of 14 and was given sedatives.
Commissioner Elson Campello said that the information supplied by "Cezinha"
would help the Off ice of the Drug Commissioner which will have to interro-
gate the studPnt further today and which will "mount a special operation -
in an effort to locate 'Cezinha's' supplier in Sao Goncalo, a persor? alsu
known as Mario."
"We know roughly where the traffickez lives; yesterday he took that student
to the vicinity of the place where the mazihuana is stored. We might
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perhaps conduct an investigation which will enable us to break up the gang.
In my jnrisdiction, fiowever, I thilnk tfiat there is nothing left to do
6eca~se the imprisonment of ''Cezinha' must have scared other distributora _
away .
The police officer added that he has received variaus telephone calls from
people living on Paulo de Frontin Avenue, reporting other traffickers and
prrnnising to supply names and addresses for each one of them. "Cezinha's"
imprisonment was possible only due to a telephone call form a resident.
Trap
Comcnissioner Elson Campello said that the operation, which resulted in the
imprisonment of "Cezinha," was carried out by about 10 poli~e officers who
used private Iunmarkpd] vehicles, including the commissioner's own van. ~
After the student was arrested and after the 2 kilograms of marihuana, ~
which he had in bis possession, were confiscated, the police officers
set up a.trap to catch the Sao Goncalo trafficker who was coming a3ong
Paulo de Frontin [Avenue] at 1900 to pfck up the money from the sale of
drugs. . � .
- "Cezinha" was seated at a table in the Santa Alexandrina grocery store, _
making as if he were drinking a cool soft drink, while four police officers
were also making as if they were ~ust customers at the grocery store. The
rest of ~he squad had posted themaelves on the outside near a bus stop
wh~le two police officers were fiiding in the guard's hut at the entrance
to the Firemen's Hoepital wfiose director agreed to collaborate in the
- operation. '
Using long-range radio tranemttters, the police kept tabs on the movement
of all cara and individuals in the area, waiting for the Sao Goncalo traf-
ficker--he makes his marihuana deliveriea in a beige van--to appear at
the grocery; but that was not to be. Commissioner Campello believes that
other persons connected with the gang had witnesaed the arrest of "Cezinha"
and had alested the supplier.
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BRAZTL
DPF SEIZES 15 TONS OF MARIHUANA IN PERNAMBUCO
Rio de Janeiro JORNAL DO BRASIL 26 Apr 80 p 13
[Text] Recife--The Federal Police seized 15 tons of marihuana worth
- 300 million cruzeiros in an operation carried out between 10 and 20
April, in the state. According to Superintendent Fabio Calheiros, the
= drug control commissioner's office this year hGs already confiscated more
marihuana than throughout all of last year.
_ The operation was carried out by 10 police officers, both plainclothes and
- from the precinct, who traveled 2,878 kilometers, going to 11 cities in
:.he interior. They discovered 33,000 feet of marihu~~~..a in 12 plantations
and they seized 2,500 grams of plants ready for consun~~tion plus 500 -
capsules of Epelim and 8 syringes.
~ Escape
According to the office of the federal police superintendent, the entire
marihuana output of that region is sold to consumers in Recife and in
the south, via Juazeiro da Bahia, Salvador, Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro, r
and other cities.
~
In the township of Floresta--436 kilometers from the capital--the operation
en the I'irst d=uy, at Laran~etras, netted 6,000 feet of marihuana in 6
plantations owned by Manoel Lourival Ferraz,alias"Manoel do Louro" who,
ha~~-tng been warned of the approach of the police, escaped.
A total of 900 feet of marihuana was seized at Boa Vjsta and Betania from
Joaquim Antonio Flor, alias "Quincas," who was arrested by the ~ederal
Police as he tried to escape.
At Lobo, in the Pernambucan township o� Cabrobo, the police officers picked
up 9, C'00 feet p.Lanted by Devanir Gomes ~'ieira, alias "DeYa," who was like- -
_ wise arrested. In the city of Juazeiro, in Bahia, the Federal Police found
only 50 grams of the plant and capsules of Epelim. All marihuana was
hurned .
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BRAZIL
~
BRIEFS
DRUG TRAFFICKERS ARRESTED--Claudtonor Columbo, a former military police
aergeant, and Joaquin Garrido Colomi, a 35-year-old, Spaniard wer~ caught
by the drug control police in Sao Caetano do Su]., Sao Paulo. Ninety kilo-
grams of marihuana brougr.t from Para~uay and 40 (?provetil) pills were
found in their pcssession, The drug control police have reported that an '
average of 12 kilograms of cocaine from Bolivia and 8 tons of marihuana -
from Paraguay are introduced in the city of Sao Paulo per month for the c:..-- -
sumption of about 1 million drug addicts, and that controlling that traffic j
is very difficult for the reduced contingent of 50 agerits and 15 officera
aseigned to the unit. [PY221732 San Paula Radio ~andeirantea in Portuguese
1000 GMT 21 May 80] _
- DRUG TRAFFIC*riERS ARREST --Tt?e Federal Police have arrested (,Orivaldo
Pereira de Souza), 30, and (Joae Ar.tonio Brandao), 34, in Sao Vicente and
. have seized from them 100~grams of cocai.ne, which they had bought in Corumba,
Mato Grosso do Norte. ~[PY161910 Sao Paulo Radio Bandeirantes Network in
~ortuguese 1000 GMT 16 May 80]
FRENCH DRUG TRAFFICKER ARRESTED--~The Federal Police ~ave arreated French .
citizen Xairer F.rratabera, 32, while attempting to board an Iberia aircraft ~
t+~ Madrid last M~nday night at ~the Rio de Janeiro airport. The police ~
seized from him 360 grams of cocaine hidden in a satl.n belt. [PY1619Z0 ;
Rio de Janeiro JORNAL DO BRASIL in Portuguese 14 May 80 p 24j ,
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COLOMBIA
COCAliVF, 'PACKINGHOUSE' SEIZED, SIX PERSONS CAPTUREll
Bo~ota tiL TIFSIPO in Spanish 3 Apr 80 p 5-B
~'1'~xt] The F-2 of the Joint Chiefs of Staff uncovered an ingenious method ~
' ;c>r expc~rting cocaine desrined for the United States; it seized 10 kg of
cocain~~ and ? million capsules c~f the type used in packaging antibiotics,
= and it dest-royed a powerful ring of dr~.g traffickers.
T'ile laboratory was carnouflaged by a"caver" activity at a location where the
Galaxia l,aboratories operated, at 34B-70 Avenida Primero de Mayo, and where
cosmeti.cs with a legal market were actually manufactured.
'.Che F-2 re~orted that the powerful organization had on the first floor of the
huilding a rouge, lipstick and na.il polish factory, which for a long time
i~ermitted the crim~inals to work freely on the illicit processing of cocaine
_ on the second floor.
'~he dr~i~; pror_c=,,sed in the modern Lactory was packed in the capsules by the
rnillion, anci each one of them contained approxiamtely .5 gm of cocaine. The
- capsules, ln turn, were imported from Mexico since they are not produced in
- Colombia.
ir has been ascertained that the shipments were camouflaged as drugs, in b~xes
la.betled as pr~~perty of reliab.l_e and responsible laboratories, destined for
Florida ~United Stat~s). -
In the same ~~peration the F-2 seized a stock of about 200 kg of harmless sub-
Stances whic.h cti~~re used for mixi.ng with the drug, which was thus shipped al-
_ ready "cut" Eor delivery for street use on the U.S. black market. _
Tl~e Laeoratory contained 10 glass bottles of 10 gallons each i.n which were
chemicals appropriate for the processing of the cocaine, 4 precisi.on balances
kept L1IldAr their respective glass covers, test tubes, pipettes, acids, filter
paper and a cenrrifuge for homogen.i.zing the mixtures of cocaine and other
substances.
Another subs~ance which is unknown to the government laboratory technicians
was also fouz~d, ~..iid it is being chemically analyzed.
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The place was full of large quantities of washing compounds, corks, bottle~
= and paint brushes, and the windows were covered with white paper and fastened
from the inaide with heavy wire to prevent viewing from the outside.
Capture
- Six persona were captured in the operation a nd the authorities are searching
for the rest of the ring in the Departments of Quindio and Risaralda.
Peraons arrested in the operation are: Ruben Dario Cruz Salazar, Alvaro Cruz
Fuentes ~as published], Jose Paecual Albesiano Nieto, Didier Cruz Salazar,
Ferney Arenas Cardona and J~iro Lozano Sarmiento.
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COLOM~3IA
GEN NARVAL'I.: T'RA.1?FICK~RS ARE ON THE RIJN
Booota F;L 'I'IEMPO in Spanish 17 Mar 80 pp 1-A, 1-B
~ ~AICIC.LP_ by Jose Cervantes]
[Ter.c.] Barranqui.lla, 16--"The gangsters are on the defensive. We are confi-
dent oF an early victory over these rings of trafficker."
~~en Guil.lerrna Nar.vaaz Casallas, com~nander of the Zd Brigade, said this as he
annr~+uriced that during the last 48 hour.s 28 traffickers, including a famaus
capo oC Barranquilla, have been captured by military authorities.
t,en N~rvaez Casallas confirmed the capture of three planes of U.S. registration,
_ ,:i lar~e. quantity ot long and short range arms, marihuana, cocaine, hashish
,ind "j~~mbo" .ind `t~xdrax tablets.
>i~{~c iai n~~te i.s talcen of the cases of three officers, two from the army and
- oi:~ Err,m DAS [Administrative Pepartment oE Security] who refused bribes from -
th4 tralCickers.
The ofFicia_1. news release turned over to EL TIEMPU by Gen Narvaez Casallas
f~i~l~l:t~~hts thc. tol.lowing:
- 'l'tie lis~ of 2t3 traff-ickers arrested is as follows: In Atlantico; A~in Malkun
, '1'afache, Mel.quisedec Bustos and Augusto Alberto Berbessi.
In Gi~ajir