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5 September 1980
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_ NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
CFOUO 37/80)
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5 September 1.980
- WORLDWIDE REPORT
NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
(FOUO 37/80)
CONTENTS
ASIA
AUSTRALIA
Pair Accused of Smuggl~ng Heroin in Bowling Ball
(THE COURIER-MAIL, 23 Jul 80) 1
Briefs
Alleged Heroin Posseasion 2
'Heroin Courier' Captured 2
Drug Pusher Killed 2 _
Morphine Possessor Convicted 3
; Heroin Smuggling Charge 3
Heroin on Footpath 3 '
Heroin in Boots 4
INDONESIA
Narcotics Smuggling, Use in North Sumatra
(KOMPAS, 20 Jun 80) 5
MALAYSIA
Drug Traffickers Given Prison Tertas
(KIN KWOK DAILY NEWS, various dates) 7
Couple Sentenced
Tailor Sentenced to 4 Years
Users Spending $182 Million on Drugs
Jebless Youth Sentenced to 4 Years
- Police Cff?.cer Sentenced -
Morphine Seized
Heroin Seized, Suspects Ar.rested
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r'uK ~rrt~ttw u~r, u~vLi
PAKISTAN
Briefs ~
~ Opium, Charas, Bhang Seized~ 12
Narcotics Hau1 12
Largest Charas Haul 12
Smuggler Kills Customs Men , 12
Kilo of Heroin Seized 13
- PHILIPPINES
Filipino Ingenuity Worsens Drug Problem
(PHILIPPINES DAILY EXPRESS, 16 Aug 80) 14
Metro Antinarcotics Body To Be Established
(PHILIPPINES DAILY EXPRESS, 21 Jul 80)..........o...... 15
Death for Possession of Marihuana Seeds Urged
(PHILIPPINES DAILY EXPRESS, 24 Jul 80) 16
Restrictian on Sale of Dangerous Drugs Urged
(Editorial; PHILIPPINES DAILY EXPRESS, 28 Jul 80)..... 17
SOUTH KOREA
~ Govern~ant Rounds Up 164 Drug Traffickers, Producers
(THE KOREA TIMES, 8 Aug 80) 18
Brief s
~ Internationally Wanted Drug Smuggler 19
T'HAILAND
Surveillance Leads to Bangkok Heroin Seizure
- (BANGKOK POST, 15 Jul 80) 20
Briefs
Chinese Gets 33 Years 21 =
CANADA
RCMP Fears Montreai May Become Heroin Traffic Center
(Andre Cedilot; LA PRESSE, 18 Jul 80) 22
EAST EUROPE _
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Bxief s
Another Pharmacy Drug Thieft 24
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HUNGARY
More Youngsters Abusing Prescription Drugs
(ESTI HIRLAP, 11 Aug 80)....:~ 25
LATIN AMERICA
ARGENTTNA
Briefs
Coca Leaves Seized 29
Antidrug Traffic Seminar 29
BOI,IVIA
Briefs
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U.S. Aid Cut-off Deplored 30
Cocaine Factory Discovered 30 -
Marihuana Seized 30 _
BRAZIL
Former Councilman Sentenced to 14 Years for Trafficking
(0 GLOBO, 31 Jul 80) 31
Ma~or Drug Trafficker Arrested in Rio
(0 GLOBO, 5 Aug 80) 33
Many Traffickers Taken Out of Circulation in Rio Since
October
(0 GLOBO, 4 Aug 80) 36 �
Ring Supplying 'FUNABEM' With Marihuana Disbanded
(CORREIO BRAZILIENSE, 19 Jul 80) 38
Cocaine Arrests in Rio District
(0 GLOBO, 15 Jul 80) 40
Briefs
EM'FA Proposes Drug Committee 42
COLOMBIA
President Discusses Drug Problem at Joint Session of Congress
(Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala; EL SIGLO, 21 Jul 80)........ 43
MEXICO
Informer Leads to Heroin Traffickers' Arrest
(EL DIARIO DE NUEVO LAREDO, 26 Jul 80) 45
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- Further Details on Guerrero Heroin Trafficking Ring
- (EL MANANA, 26 Jul 80) 47
Trafficker, Accomplice Murdered in Nuevo Leon
(EL BRAVO, 20 Jul 80) 49
Two Traffickers Held, Heroin Confiscated
(EL SOL DE SINALOA, 2 Aug 80) 52
Marihuana, Poppy Plantation Owners Arrested
(EL SOL DE SINALOA, 30 Jul 80) 53
Briefs
Cocaine, heroin Traffickers Caught 54
Trafficker Released Posthumously 54 ~
Traffickers Posing as Informer 55
Heroin Seized in Reynosa 55
Drug Laboratory ~n Sinaloa 56
Army Intensif ies Operation Condor 56
Heroin Trafficker Jailed 56
SRA Official a Trafficker 57
Marihuana Growers Released 57
July Antidrug Campaign Results 57
Marihuana Traffickers Deny Charges 58
Marihuana Growers Arr2ste:i 58
NEAR EAST, ~TD NORTH AFRICA
~ IRAN
Briefs
Quantities of Opium Seized 59
Opium Seized in Kara3 59
Karaj, Dezful, Hamadan Executions 59
Death Sentences to Drug Dealers 60
Smuggler Sentenced to Death 60
Narcotics Traffickers Executed 60
Khalkhali ia Shiraz 60 -
Traffickers Arrested 60
Smugglers Sentenced 51
Arsenjan Citizen Commended 61
Narcotics Canfiscated 6a-
Drug Traffickers Arrested 61
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KENYA
Awareness Programs 'Needed To Educate Kenyans on Drug Abuse'
(DAILY N~.TION, 9 Aug 80) .............................o. 62
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WEST EUROPE
FRANCE
Far East Heroin Traffickers Arrested -
(Jean Paillardin; LE FIGARO, 17 Jun 80) 64
Briefs
Marihuana Seized 66
SPAIN
Cocaine Trafficker Uses 'Unusual' Transport Method
(ABC, 25 Mar 80) 67
Narcotics Squad Arrests Hashish Trafficker
(ABC, 25 Mar 80) 69
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AUSTRALIA
PAIP. ACCUSED OF SMUGGLING HEROIN IN BOWLING BALL
Brisbane THE COURIER-~fAIL in English 23 Jul 80 p 12
['text ) A SOLICITdR told the Magi:trote'R ~ourt yesterday tl+at
Crown Prosecuton I+c~d exaggeratea ~the ornount and street
volue of soized drugs mQny tirr~as du~inq court baii
opplicotions. .
Aefence couasel Mr MP. @u~na told tained ~75 grama oi No. 3 grade herofn.
Mr Stubbina. SM~ it would be a dsn- heroin.
qerows precedent fos s person to be Q~ for Miller, aaid 475 grims
remsnded 1n custody befon snalY~ ot a aubatance alle8ed to be heroin had
of an a11e8M da~s~erous dru~� I not 9et been analyaed.
� He said thir durin6 a bail appfl- 1 ,
cation for RaY~,~~~ ~lm ~er, 29. ' ' A mstter befan the Maglatrates'
. self-empbyed b~t buiida. ot Fiove- ' Court ou DRaY 28 this yeu had to be
wood Avenue, Brosdbee~ch. . ~~a~o~~ when a subatsnee involved
'~had aot been analysed becauae ot the
Mi:ler !s char~sd wlth 1~svlnB. b~ ~0~~� of work at the analysts' labort-
Lnowin81Y concerned with the itnPor- toriea fn 89dneY~' he said.
tation of heroin into Ausxralls bettaeea ~e ~~&tion migY~t even-
- July 16 ar~d July 31. aad with D~- t~~ he~e, It's a dangerous prece-
aing the dru8� , dent for a P~rson to be incarcerated
1dr 8tubbina refused b~tl becs~ae at ~l~out snalysis of a subeEance on
the serious nature of 'the char`e sad which a chsr�e 1a bs~aed." `
remanded Miller r_atil July ZS. Q~ ~d a substaur,e alieaed
A youth. 14, was tc sppear b~fore Lhe~.:- T~y i~0~ ~0~utor to be heroin 1n
Children's Court Y~Y ~ s~~' 1a~ ~t year, su baequeatly
similar charges. �.turued o~~ t� be caffelrn, t,ut several _
' delendaats were lnitiallY retused bail.
The Crown ProaecuEor Mr P.E. ~~ytng ball. D~r Crook s~id Miller
Crook, aaid analysis of s substance bnd uaed a false pasaport 1n the name
foun~ ineide a t~n-pin boaling bsl1, ~ of pSUl petslck Coolwell.
would be compieted either today or
tomorrow. Minimum vaiue oi the all.eged heroin
~ He said it Would be alleQed M111es x~ed waa ;80,000 and Mr Crook aaid
left Sydneg. Intes'national Airport_ oa ~ value cauld treble follawing
, du19 18 with a 9outh. 14. They toot anslyy~s.
with them a ten-pin bowlin~ ball. ~ Quinn said Niiller Yaad made no
It would be alleged khuq visited Ma- ~~ions to polce and it was
laysie and returned w. Brlabaae Air- au�~ the bowling ball ~Aae fouad 1n
Lhe poeseaaion of the pout;h.
port ~by Way of 8ydnty on July 41.
A Customs er.sminatiou o1~ the bowl- He said Miller was a fc~rmer trawler
ine be~ll nvealed a Salss ptste made; �~r Who had lived on the C3old
from spoxy reeln on ita side, Mr Croo~i C0~ for 28 years. Fie a~as a plaintifi.
' said. and tha hollow Uostde waa liaed� ~~veral pending 8vpnma Court
wiLh carbon psper and slle~edl9 ~ ~~d was unlikely uy abacond
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AUSTRALIA
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BRIEFS
ALLEGED HIItOIN POSSESSION--Police allegedly found 20 ounces (.Skg) of white
powder--believed to be heroin--in a Br isbane man's possession, Magistrates -
Court was told yesterday. The Police Prosecutor, Sen Sgt T.J. Wightman
said it was a substantial amount. Dowall Robert Larsen, 38, taxi proprietor,
of Gawain Street, ~3racken Ridge, was charged with having possessed a
dangerous drug for a specified purpose under the Aealth Act on July 10.
[Text~ [Brisbane THE COURIER-MAIL in English 12 Jul 80 p 15J
'HEROIN COURIER' CAPTURED--A New South Wales man was arrested at Tulla-
marine Airport early yesterday and charged with importing and possessing
he~:oin which may be worth as much as $2.7 million. Customs officers
a~le~;edly found 836 grams of heroin strapped to the legs of the unemployed
man, 33, who flew in on a Malaysian Airlines flight. The heroin was between
40 and 50 percent pure, giving a street value of at least $900,000,
Detective Sergeant Brian Ridley, of the Federal Police drug unit, said.
It was the largest heroin seizure in Melbourne for some years. Sources -
said the heroin could be diluted to give it a value of three times the
police estimate. Heroia sells at about $50 for a 0.2 gram "cap." Sometimes
the heroin is only 3 percent pure. Sergeant Ridley said the Federal
Police, working with Malaysian police, had told customs officers to
search the man. The man is an alleged courier for a Sydney syndicate.
Federal Police believe that the syndicate was linked with the arrest at -
Sydney Airport two weeks ago of a woman allegedly in possession of 450
grams of heroin. Sergeant Ridley said the heroin was strapped to the man's
iegs. He was allegedly travelling under a false passport. The heroin was
a grade, kzown as "rocks." It is the second purest form. Sergeant Ridley
said police hoped to make ~nore arrests. The man will appear in the Mel-
bourne Magistrates Court this morning. [Text] [Melbourne THE AGE in
English 28 Jul 80 p 1]
DRUG PUSHER KILLED--Two masked gunmen murdered a heroin trafficker in his
St Kilda apartment early yesterday af ter he refused to give them his
drugs, police said. Peter Dale Russell, 31, made up to $3500 a week
selling heroin to prostitutes, the head of the homocide squad, Chief
Inspector Paul Delianis, said. "He was a trafficker one level above the
gutter." He said Russell was on bail on two heroin trafficking charges.
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Inspector Delianis said Russell had been in his Waterloo Crescent flat
with three women. Soon after midnight two masked men armed with a
.25 automatic pistol knocked on the door, entered the flat and demanded
that Russell give them his "gear." Russell refused and tried to attack
the men, but was shot twice. He again tried to stop the men and was
shot again, Inspec tor Deli~~nis said. He died before an ambulance
arrived. Earlier, the two men removed a gas heater from a laundry in
the flats to try to find heroin. Police did not find any heroin in the
flat: Inspector Delianis said Russell had a long criminal history, and
was sentenced to 10 years' jail for an armed robbery in 1973. [Text]
- [Melbourne THE AGE in English 22 Jul 80 p 15]
MORPHINE POSSESSOR CONVICTED--A Supreme Court jury yesterday acquitted
a man of possessing a morphine derivative with intent to sell or supply
it. But Gordon L indsay McPhee (29), of Lawler Street, Subiaco, was con-
victed of possess ing the drug at Subiac~ on October 19 last year. He was
remanded on bail until August 12 for a prE-sentEnce report. The caurt was
told that a federal narcotics policeman ca��;!,!- McPhee holding a white paper
bag containing a white powder during a po~lce raid on his home. The powder
was a mixture of morphine and sugar and 1:cPhee allegedly told the officers
that he thought it was heroin, said the crown prosecutor, Mr G. F. Scott.
McPhee had denied any intention to sell the drug and had said he was going _
to use it himself. Mr B, J. Singleton, for McPhee, said he was now receiv-
ing methadone treatment for his drug addiction. [Text] [Perth THE WEST -
- AUSTRALIAN in English 16 Jul 80 p 21]
HEROIN SMUGGLING CHARGE--Melbourne--A Sydney man appeared in the Melbourne
City Court yes*_erday charged with importing heroin into Australia. Gary
Ronald Rowley, 32, unemployed, of New South Head Road, Double Bay, was _
charged with having imported the heroin on Sunday, and with having a prohib-
ited import. He d id not enter a plea. Mr K. Burgess, SM, remanded Rowle~
- in custody to August 5. [Text] [Sydney THE SYDNEY T~ORNING HERALD in ,
English 29 Jul 80 p 12]
HEROIN ON FOOTPATH--Police s�~w a man place a package of heroin worth ~
$25,000 on a footpath, it was alleged in the Central Cour; of Petty
Sessions yesterday. Before the court were Peter Hike, 34, unemployed,
of Prince Edward Circle, Daceyville, and Frank Maggs, 22, unemployed, of
no fixed address, who were each charged with possessing and supplying
heroin at Redfern on July 18. Sergeant W. Evans, prosecuting, said police
had seen the two men walking along Castlereagh Lane at Redfern on Fri3ay.
He alleged Hike was seen to place a package onthe footpath and then had ~
en.tered a house nearby with Maggs. Later police had sePn Maggs return and -
pick up the packa ge. He had thrown it into a gutter while being pursued
by police. Sergeant Evans said 52 grams of heroin with a street value
of $25,000 was fo und in the package. He alleged Hike was the main supplier
of the drug. Mr K, Anderson, SM, allowed Hike $4,000 bail on the condition
he report to police daily and he adjourned the hearing until August 11.
He refused Maggs baiZ and remanded him in custody until July 29. [Text]
[Sydney THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD in English 22 Jul 80 p 2]
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HEROIN IN BOOTS--A woman alleged to have imported about S00 grams of -
heroin strapped on to her legs appeared in the Central Court of Petty
Sessions yesterday. Lynette Caroline Hall, 28, domestic, of High
Street, Randwick, was charged yesterday wi.th importing heroin into
Australia without reasonable excuse. No plea was entered and Hall did
not apply for bail. Mr A. Re~ch, of the Commonwealth Crown Solicitor's
Office, alleged that about S00 grams of a substance, believed to be
heroin, was strapped on the inside of Hall's legs inside the boots she
was wearing. He said the substance had not yet been analysed. Mr C.
_ Briese, CSM, said that it was "a massive quantity of heroin." He re-
fused bail and remanded her in custody until July 22 for mention at the
St James Court of Petty Sessions. [Text] [Sydney THE SYDNEY MORNING
HERALD in English 16 Jul 80 p 11]
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INDONESIA
NARCaTICS SMUGGLING, USE IN NORTH SUMATRA
Jakarta KOMPAS in Indonesian 20 Jun 80 pp l, 9
_ [Text] Chief of Police II/North Sumatra, J.F.R. Montalalu, said on Monday
that there are indicat~ions that the city of Medan is being used as one of
the links in an international narcotics chain. "Their intention is to make
this city a transit area," said Montalalu to reporters who stapped him as
he was leaving his office.
Montalalu stated that the evidence is based on a number of narcotics
smuggling cases in that area. He gave only two examples: an opium case
in the Langkat Regency, and a five kilogram heroin case in Jakarta. -
The police ar?-ested those involved in the first case when they attempted to
enter via the east shore of North Sumatra in Langkat. In the second case,
it was learned that the culprit had already been in the city of Medan, prior
to his arrest in Jakarta. "Because of this we must be on the alert," said
Montalalu.
There was no clarif ication from Montalalu as to the final destination of the
narcotics that pass through Medan. The KOMPAS source at the Chief of Police
II/North Sumatra Hqs said it could be Jakarta or Bali. It is then usually
transferred on to Australia. In fact, one case was uncovered in East Timor. _
According to Montalalu, there are relatively few narcotics users in the
Me~ian area. However, the KOMPAS source said there was quite a number of -
cases of drug abuse victims there. In 1976, for example, there were
approxim3tely 200 heroin addicts who received treatment from the police. _
There has been no follow-up in subsequent years to determine their present
condition.
If there were 200 drug abusers in 1976, certainly there are more than that
now. This estimate is based on the large number of valium addicts, found _
primarily among Chinese adolescents. In 1978, those suffering from other
narcotics abuse decreased. The police know of four opium users, and, in
1979, learned of four more, bringing the total to eight. "I believe the '
number is larger, the police ~ust haven't found them yet," added our
source.
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Other estimates are based on infc,rmation available on the type of opium
used mainly by those working with the fishing boats and traps/nets, accord-
ing to the KOMFAS source. They use it to tolerate the cold,. '1'here are
approximately 10,000 fish traps on the east shore of Nt. Sumatra. About
four persons own one fish trap, consequently, we have a total of 40,000
~ people. If each person consumes 1 miligram per day, 40 gran~s of opium are
_ required; for one month, 120 grams; and for 1 year, 1,440 grams or (1.5
kilcl. "Quite a lot," he said. He also told us that inspection of the
= fish traps would be carried out eventually. Due to lack of fuads this has
not yet been done.
_ Montalalu said the city of Medan had a very important role in regard to
- marijuana. It is grown on many locations near the city. Medan would be
- used as a transit point with Jakarta as the destination. It is grown in
- the highlands of Karo and in the Langkut Regency. "
Many attempts to transfer mari~uana from this area are already known. Th e
most recent case resulted in confiscating 7 kil.os of marijuana. A 28-year
o1d Garuda employee, resident of Jakarta, was arrested with it on May 15 _
at the Polonia Airport. It is believed that he was ordered to obtain this
by Mrs Hi, wife of a member of the Armed Forces. Both have been arrested. ;
Other arrests made by the police in 1979 resulted in confiscating 187,483 '
grams of marijuana leaves and 1,037 maril uana cigarettes, and in arresting
60 people involved in 39 cases.
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MALAYSIA
DRUG TRAFFICKEP.S GIVEN FRISON TERMS r
Couple Sentenced
� Selangor KIN KWOK DAILY NEWS in Chinese 3 Mar 80 p 1
[Text] (Johore Bahrn, 2 March) Under the dangexous drug law, a merchant
couple was accused of involvenent in selling drugs. Today, during the
trial, the husband suddenly changed his plea to guilty and admitted
selling drugs. The presiding ~udge sentenced him to life imprisonment
plus six lashes.
Since the wife pleaded not guilty to all accounts, the presiding ~udge
ordered her kept in detention. The case will be tried on 10 May. Today
when the defendant heard that her husband was sentenced to life and lashed,
she cried in jail. This couple, 3:~-year~old Ch'in Wan-hsing [phonetic]
and 28-year-old..~_ardy [phonetic] live at 5kudai 8-1/2 Miles Stone. They
_ have two daughter5 and the S�ounger one was born when the defe~~dant was in
~ail.
The charges indicated that the two defendants sold 234.5 grams of heroin
on 10 June 1978 at 2230 hours at the residence on 7 Malo Garden Loranali
in violation of Item B1 Article 39 of the Dangerous Drug Ordinance.
This drug traf~icking case was partly tried on 7 and 8 January. The trial
resumed today as the prosecutor called in three more witnesses. When
the case was about to begin, the male defendant suddenly changed his mind =
- and forthrightedly admitted his guilt. Therefore, the preRiding ~udge
Ye Qirnaen sentenced the defendant as descrtbed above and concluded the
~rial early.
The defendant hired Wang Chih-hsiang as defense attorney to ask for
leniency. The chief prosecutor, Shi Hsi-yang, the assistant police super-
intendent who prosecuted the case stated that the assistant po].ice inspec-
_ tor, Wonmuhamo, led policemen ta raid the above described location based -
- on the info m~ation received. Forty-two plastic bags of suspected brown -
heroin were found in a secret comparCment under the bottom of a closet in
~ a bedroom of that nouse. Therefore, the couple was arrested immediately.
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The chief prosecutor indicated that the defendants bought these drugs
from a liaison in Taipin~ for $7,000 retail.
Tailor Sentenced to 4 Years
Selangor KIN KWOK DAILY NEWS in Chinese 27 Dec 79 p 3
[Text] (Kuala Lumpur 26 Dec) A Chinese tailor guilty of illegal posses-
sion of 11.38 grams of heroin was sentenced to 4 years in jail and
6 lashes.
This case was tried in the First District Court today. The defendant, -
Chang Hai-ming, age 30, lives at Salak South Garden, Kuala Lumpur. At ~
about 2200 hours on 28 July, the defe:~dant was found illegally possessing
11.38 grams of heroin in a house at Salak South Garden Roland Handoa.
This violates 39-A of the Dangerous Drug Ordinance.
Fan Kuo-ts'ai, the police inspector testified in court. On the day the
- case occurred, he led a group of policemen and staged a surprise raid of
- the place described above according to the information he had received.
When ha arrived, the iron gate of the defendants residence was tightly
- locked. When he knocked on the door, the defendant's mother came to the
door. Instead of opening the door, she turned back to the room. Soon
thereafter, the defendant came to the door. The inspector asked to open
the door. The defendant turned back and walked to the room without say-
ing anything. The inspector then cut the lock and dashed into the room.
After identifying himself, he searGhed the defendant in front of his
mother and his wife.
- Later, an eyewitness policeman handed the inspector a plastic bag which -
had been thrown out the upst~irs window by the defendant. The inspector,
therefore, opened the bag in front af the defendant. The bag contained
two brown envelopes one of which contained two and the other three small
packagea of heroin, and a cigaretCe box with two small packages of drug-
- like material in it.
Th~:refore, he arrested the defendant and reported the case.
Later, the eyewitness policeman who saw the defendant throw the plastic
bag out the window said that he fol}.owad the insgector that day to the
above address and was orderedwto wait downstairs with another policeman,
Mvhali. ~
About 5 minutes later, he saw the defendant throw a plastic bag out the
- window. He picked up the bag and carried it upstairs to hand it to
Inspector Xan. `
After listening to the witnesa the presiding ~udge, Satiloma, decided the -
charges were sustained by valid evidence and ordered the defendant to
defend himself in court.
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_ In his defense, the defendant said that when the incident took place, he
was sleeping and his mother woke him up an3 told him that someone was
looking for him. He went to the door and saw people who claime:l to have
- come from the police department cutting his lock. He immediately turned
- back to look for the key. When he returned with the key, the policemen
were cutting the lock.
_ These policemen went into the room with him and started the search. Later,
- a policeman came in and handed a plastic bag to Inspector Fan and he was
brought to police station just for that.
Then defendant denied that he had thrown the plastic bag downstairs. He
also stated that the plastic bag was his but not the drug. In answering
the questions asked by the proseci~tor, Cheng Jui-hsiang, the assistant
police superintendent, the d~fendant indicated that he refused to say
~ a.nything about who possessed the heroin when they were taking his deposi-
- tion, because he was afraid the police might beat him. -
_ The defense attorney, Sagorin, asked ~he court for leniency, because he
is married and has a child and rhis was his first offense and he had been
detained since 26 August of this year.
After the hearing, the presiding ,judge sentenced him to the tei-m stated
above which began from the day the defendant was detained.
Users Spending $182 Million on Drugs _
Selangor KIN KWOK DAILY NEWS in Chinese 11 Mar 80 p 1
[TextJ (Kuala Lumpur 1 March) According to Ya Zhicha Amu, a member of
_ the National Drug Department Study group, the drug users of this nation
each year spend $182 million on drugs.
She said, that until the end of 1978, 38,000 persons have been tested as
lllegal'drug users.
She added: "This means the proven drug users spend $300,000 every day. -
Ya Zhicha Amu spoke yesterday at a drug overuse s.tudy meeting in the
Penang Hall sponsored by the employees of the Penang Water Service Bureau.
The study results show that 4.6 percent o� d~ug users are students, 4.2
percent are skilled worker~, 1 percent are professional people. About
68 percent of drug users stated that they are influenced by their drug-
using friends. About 1 percent of users are under age 15; 70 percent
between 15 and 24; 27.3 percent 25 to 34 and 3.5 percent over 35 years
. old.
She said that the results of the study show that youths get hurt the most.
- "This is because nearly 53 percent of the total studied began using
drugs before age 19 and 85 percent of them have used drugs before age 24."
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Ya Zhicha Amu said that the problem of controlling drug use in the
country is not only the responsibility of the government. "Participation
in the activities of civic bodies and support of preventive measures by ~
society are very important."
Jobless Youth Sentenced to 4 Years
Selangor KIN KWOK DAILY NEWS in Chinese 20 Mar 80 p 6
[T?xt] (Johore Bahrn 19 Ptarch) A jobless Indian youth illega].ly possess-
ing 7.3 grams of heroin was sentenced by district court here to 4 years in
jail plus six lashes. -
Annasanan of Ulu Tiram, 24 years old, pleaded guilty upon being presented
on two counts of drug possession. He then asked his attorney to ask for
- leniency because he was misled by bad friends who asked him to keep the
drug for them. Now he regrets what he has done and asksd the court for
leniency.
After the hearing, the presiding judge, Yeh Ch'ing-wen, sentenced the
defendant to 4 years in jail ~lus six lashes for the first account and
2 years in ~ail for the second account. He will serve the sentences
concurrently, starting from 26 April 1978.
The defendant was indicted on 2 counts for illegal posyession of 7.3
grams of heroin found at 707-2 Great Kulai Chang Garden on the night of
27 June 1977 in violation of Item A, Article 30 of the Dangerous Drug
Ordinance, and at the same ti.me he was found in possession of 1.32
~ grams of morphine at the same location. This violates Item 2, Article 12
of the Dangerous Drug Ordinance.
In presenting his prosecuting statement, Rasalisin, the acting assistant _
police superintendent stated that police Inspector Hasin led police to .
raid the described place after the police had been tipped off. They
found 5 small packages and 175'.little tubes in a 555 cigarette pack.
Suspecting that they were heroin or morphine, they arrested the defen-
dant for prosecution. ~
Palice Officer Senten~ed
_ Selangor KIN KWOK DAILY NEWS in Chinese 20 Mar 80 p 6
[Text] (Johore Bahrn 19 Marchj An Indian policeman of the police head-
quarters at Johore who, instead of arresting the youth who possesse~ drugs,
- asked for a bribe, was prosecuted for corruption. After the trial in the
district court, the defendant was found guilty and sentenced to jail for ~
18 months starting immediately.
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The defendant, a 22-year old Calulacide, a policeman in the Johore
Police Department, prosecuted today on 3 accounts, was found guilty by
the presiding judge, Yeh Ch'ing-wen, who sentenced him to 18 months in
prison for each account and started serving the sentence immediately.
The charges included: (1) At 0130 hours on 10 February ].979, he
corruptly accepted a$SO bribe from Adulasan in eschange for not arrest-
ing him for possession of drugs near the Lido Theater in Johore Bahrn.
(2) At 0900 hours on 12 Fabruary 1979, the defendant accepted another
$25 from the same person for. the same reason in the parking lot of the
Lido Theater in Johore Bahrn. All above are in violation of item 4-A
of the anticorruption law.
Sali, assistant attorney of National Bureau of Investigation, was the
prosecutor and Sobnama was the defense attorney.
Morphine Seized
Selangor KIN KWOK DAILY NEWS in Chinese 16 Jan 80 p 1 -
[Text] (Taiping 15 January) North Perak custom service officers in a
3 and 1/2 hour ambush at midnight in Kuching successfu].ly cracked a case,
netting 5.5 pounds of morphine worth $180,000 on the blac~c market, but ~
no suspect was apprehended. Five custom service officers, led by Super-
intendent Omen, ?aunched the ambush operation.
At about 2400 heurs, a suspicious motorcycle came from north and circled
twice around the above described location but lef.t in the same direction
it had come. Later, a suspicious person looked in all directions at above -
described location with a flashlight, as if looking for something. The
c~stom service officars then rushed forward to capture him. After a
chase over some distance, the su$pect disappe:~red into a rubber plantation.
La~er the custom officers found ~ cases containing 5.5 pounds of morphine
worth $180,000 on the black market at the above-mentioned place.
Heroin Seized, Suspects Arrested
Selangor KIN KWOK DAILY NEWS in Chinese 28 Dec 79 p 1
[Text] (Penang 27 December) The detectives of the Central Drug Control
Bureau have scored another brilliant record. They successfully seized
over 3 pounds of heroin worth $.1 million on the overseas market and
arrested 2 suspects. According to a report, a group of capable detectives
from the Central Drug Control Bureau of Kuala Lumpur, acting on the strength
of reliable information, went in hiding near the Malon Hotel on the evening
of 20 December. Soon after, two suspicious persons walked past the front
of the hotel one of them carrying 3 cloth bag. Seizing the opportunity
presented to them, these capable detectives arrested the two suspects and ~
found 3 pounds of heroin in the cloth ba~. One of the two captured sus-
pects .is a Malaysian and the other a Chinese. They were later brought
to the Penang Police Headquarters for further questioning.
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PAKISTAN
BRIEFS _
OPIUM, CHARAS, BHANG SEIZED--Excise Staff, Sialkot, in a raid recovered
60 grams of opium, 240 grams of charas and 5 kilograms of bhang from
Mohammad Anwar alias Anno Jat of SangheYwali. Police station Satran have -
registered a case against the accused under Section 4/4/79 Islamic Law.
[ Text ] [ Islamabad T~iE IK[JSLIM ~n Er. ~lish 5 Aug 80 n h]
NARCOTICS HAUL--D.G. Khan, Aug. 2:--A big haul of charas (1,500 grams),
opium (375 grams) and 'bhang' (1,000 grams) has been made from a tea
stall in Shah Saddar Din. The stall owner is under arrest. [TextJ
[Lahore THE PAKISTAN TIMES in English 3 Aug 80 p 6]
LARGEST CHARAS HAUL--Hyderabad, July 30.--Summary Military Court, Thatta,
convicted all the 11 smugglers on charge of charas smuggling to undergo
~ one year rigorous imprisonment, lashes ranging from five to 15 and imposed
it f ine of Rs. 3,25,50,000. [as published] They were caught from an iso-
lated sea shore near Ghorabari, while attempting to smuggle 125 maunds of
charas via s a[as published] to some unknown destination. The convicted
persons include one foreigner. It may be mentioned that it was the biggest
- haul of charas seized in this part or the country. [Text] [La:~ore THE
PAKISTAN TIl~IES in English 31 Jul 80 p 6]
SMUGGLER KILLS CUSTOMS MEIv--Nawankot Police on Saturday arrested gang
member of notorious narcotic smugglers ~*ho shot dead two Customs Inspectors
near Tarbela Dam last week. The accused Azhar Hussain of Naseerabad, _
Baghbanpura w~s arrested on ~he information of another opium and charas
smuggler Haji Anwar Khara of New Mozang who was earlier arrested by the Police.
'I~aelve Kilogram of opi~m and nine Kilogram of charas was recovered from
his possession. The Police also arrested Allauddin alias Lava of New Mo- -
' zang a notorious narcotic vendor. The investigation into the arrest of
Allauddin led to the arrest of the alleged smugglers and hauling of big
quantity of opium and charas. [Text~ [Lahore THr. PAKISTAN TIMES in En~-
lish 3 Aug 80 p 3]
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KILO OF HEROIN SEIZED--Karachi, Aug 7--The Excise Police trapped a person
named Khan Zaman and recovered from his possessi_on one kilo of refined
heroin which is estimated to be worth about Rs. 15 lakh locally and Rs. 48
lakh abroad. According to details the local Excise Directorate received
a tip off that a consignment of heroin has arrived here from tribal area
and that the carrier was looking for a prospective buyer. The deal was
_ finalised through a bogus customer and the exchange was arranged at Lyari
yesterday mor?iing. Just as the man handed the bag containing heroin to
the planted huyer the Excise men who were hiding nearby caught him red-
handed and seized the bag. T:~e arrested man on interrogation disclosed
that a mini modern processing plant was set up in Landi Kotal recently
where heroin was extra~ted from opium and then refined.--PPI 1Text/
,[Islamabad THE MUSLIM in English 8 Aug 80 p 6/ ,
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PHILIPPINES
FILIPINO INGENUITY WORSENS DRUG PROBLEM
Manila PHILIPPINES DAYLY EXPRESS :ln English t6 Aug 80 p 2
LText/ The ingenuity of young Filipinos in concocting substitutes for
prohibited drugs and narcotics is compounding the problem of drug abuse
_ in the country.
Manuel Supnet, executive director of the Dangerous Drugs Board, noted
that the variety of mixturea experimented by drug users would put chemista
and pharm.acists to shame. "The most co~only used as substitute is rugby,
which is popular among the mean age of 7 to 12 years old," he disclosed.
Supnet attributed the "devil-may-care" att~tude of the users to their
innate and irrespQnsible nature and craving for independence plus
compulsive imitation of western influence. -
Latest data released by the DDB re~vealed that students started to try using
drugs at the early age of 10-13. Majority of the reapondents who were
covered by the survey had tried using at least one drug in their lifetime.
The study also indicated that most of the students took alcoholic beverages.
Why the young resorted to such abuse was traced to school, family and
personal problems.
Speaking before delegates from five Asian nations as well as local partici-
pants to the national workshop on the prevention of drug abuse yesterday
afternoon, Supnet said the adverse effects of drugs and ~heir related
problems have become public concern, prompting its programmers to shift to
more realiatic and relevant problems. _
The six-day workshop which will close Aug 16 with Health Minister Enrique
Garcia as geest speaker is hosted by the DDB in cooperation with the
Colombo Plan Bureau.
In assessing the scope of drug addiction in the country, the board said it
remains at an insignificant level. "Marijuana, cough syrups, tranquilizers
and analgesics remair~ as the commonly abused drugs," it revealed.
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PAILIPPINES
METRO ANTINARCOTICS BODY TO BE ESTABLISHED
Manila PHILIPPINES DAILY EXPRESS in English 21 Jul 80 p 8
[Text] The Metro Manila anti-narcutics task �orce meets tomorrow to dis-
cuss the drug abuse problem in the metropolis and draw up action plans
to combat the drug menace.
Metro Manila Vice Gov Ismael Mathay, Jr., who was named the alternate of
the First Lady and Metro Manila Gov Imelda Romualdez Marcos in the task
force, said that initial discussions will be held on this first meeting
- with military men. The succeeding ones wi.ll be with school heads, parish
priests and civic organizations.
Expected to attend the meeting are: Brig Gen Bienvenido Felix, of the
Constabulary Anti-Narcotics--Unit (CANU), Deputy Minister Herminio Dumlao
of the Ministry of Education, Director Jolly Bugarin of the National Bureau
of Investigation, Deputy Minister Ronnie Puno of the local governments
ministry, Gen Pelagio Cruz of the bureau of intelligence o~ the Ministry
of Finance, and a representative from the Dangerous Drugs boa.cd of the
Ministry of Health.
The task force was created by Mrs Marcos to draw up an intensive plan to
fight the increasing menace of drug abuse in the metropolis. The task
force is expected to come out with an operational plans and programs to ~
~ inculcate political caLSe among the youth and to make them "feel like
heroes."
Mrs Marcos said that the task force should solve the drug addiction
problem positively and lift the addicts from cheap thrills and money
goals to patriotism and love for the country.
It was reported earlier that 60 percent of those arrested for drug push-
ing in 1978 and 1979 came from Manila and 75 percent of those arrested
during this period were mari~uana cultivators.
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PHILIPPINES
DEATH FOR POSSESSION OF MARIHUANA SEEDS URGED
Manila PHILIPPINES DAILY EXPRESS in English 24 Jul 80 p 2
A PROPOSAL to nmkc merc n~ake mere posseasion of mArijuena
[Text] ~~~~on of marijuana seeds sceds a i;riminal ofYense.
punishab]e by death is being finalized
by the Ministry of lustice in a rr~ve *
to stop the pmGteraticm and THE MEETING attendrd by
cultivatiun of tius plant, reproscntatives of ~arious ~
The pmpose~' Presidential pecree, government agencies invulved in the
which would amend Republic Act anti-drug campaipp~'wa~presided over
1683, includes the possession of such by Metro Nlanila Vice Gov. lsmael
, seeds punishable by death as other Mathay~, tempurary head uf the task
dangerous drugs under the revised force in the absen~ of its chainnan,
I}angerous Drugs Act. the First iady Imelda Itomualder
'7'he proposed decree, which is due Marcos, who is stiU ~hrc?ad.
for submission to the "Pnsident this picsent in tl~c n~ecting were NBI
wcek~ ~vill hopefully put a Stop lo Dircctur 7olly I3ugariu. Brig, ~~~n� -
the massive distribution of 3uch seeds BienveniJu I~elix, ('ANU chief, F~.
and its cultivation in a growing Georpe Lcdsclle of the Drug Ahu~e
number of provinces. Rehabilitati~~n and Ecluc;ati~~n a~id
At precent, there is, no 1aw representatives frum the ministries c~f
penali~ing possession of marijuana eduration and cullure, justice,
tiecds and seedlir?gs. health, local guvcrnnxnt and
Thls wu one of seveta) ~roposals , cummunity developnxnt and thc
srrived at by the Metro Manila.anti-� Uangcrous Urug~ Board. _
drug task foroe during a meeting
yesterdoy. , MATHAY saiJ ~he review in the
� Review the quality and ~ ~ _
c~pability uf law~nfurcers uf vari~ius ~ performance of' , law ent~~rcers is tu
govcrnmcnt agen~ies involve~i in the determine what ~~+rlicular aspect in
camEraign against drug addictl~m. tlte drive they will be m~~re cff'ectivc.
� Tap the services of 17 batangay On the bata~~gay brigades, he said _
brigades in the drive. seminars and k:rtures will be �
� taunch a massive infurmation ~ organi:ed for them so that tl~ey ran
and educatlcx~ campaign amc~~g ~rry uut their ri~le efficiently. ~
parrnis and youths cx~ the ill efle~ts 'fhe harnesang ~~f the s~rvicc~ ~~f
of drugs to�the health of the users. barangay briga~les in the c~anipai~~ i~
� Surveillan~~e of various s~hoolc imperalive because Ihcy knuw bet~cr
frequented by drug pushers. people living in their respeclive areas,
o Uraft an amendment ~a the including their characters, the vi~~c
Dangeruus DruRs Act of 1972 to guvernur caid.
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PHILIPPINES
RESTRICTION ON SALE OF DANGEROUS DRUGS URGED
Manila PHILIPPINES DAILY EXPRESS in English 28 Jul 80 p 4
[Editorial: "Dangerous Drugs:]
[Text] THE URUG MENACE, witfr all its resultant ilow ~ieatf~s,
countless sufferings irt many a I~ome, dissipation of resources, and
stunting of the fult iievelopment of the youth, kceps resurfacing,
, despite the vigitance of rhe authofities, despite the stiff penalties
- irr?posed on both user and trafficke~. ~
That we have ertougi~ taws and decrees to fight this
Hydra-headed m,onster neecis na elaboration. Th~ oniy person to
- be executed~ by,a firing squad under tix emergency regime was a
dn:g kingpin, for or~e. Anct there isthe pendingproposal tu make
. mer+~ possession of. marijuan~ sceds punishable by death; sd~ely,
both~ the witt and fhe strength to curb drug addiction does not
~ want for penal weapQns. - .
- Implementation of such laws and~ decrees is another matter,
however. : _ . _ . .
- The Dangerous Drugs Act, which was recently amended by a
new d~uee Eo. indude self�inducing sedatives and hypnotic drugs
_ among th~ regulated ones~ will be a mere scrap of paper, unless the -
authorities focus~ their attention un one basic area - th~ drug
stores themsetves. - ~ ~
For instance, two medicat experts, Dr. Louis Goodman and Dr.
Alfred Gilman, in their authoritative book~ "TI~e Pharmacological
Basis of Therapeutics," . cite Vatium (Diazepam), Ubrium
- (Chlo~diazepoxide) and M1logacion (Nitrozepam) as widely used _
daytime sedatives, which have hypnotic Exoperties~ and, thercfore,
their use should be mediwlly maaitored.
StillY Valiurrr, Librium and Mogadon are veid~ly dispenxd;
whether one can buy these drugs from the corner drug stores with
or without presc~iptiun is of no conxquence. Th~ fact is, th~
authorities ~ave, time and again, caug~t offen~ers wittttl~ese three
drugs,~ often in quantities which bog~;le b~ch mind. anQ
imagination. . ~
- I..aunch massive �and multi-prc~nged anii-drug progams if we
must. Tap all available resources if we must, including the _
barangays, whish should be in the furefront of the campaign, -
because of their intimate invoivPmenr in Che daily lives of their
- members. But untess and untii wc begin curbing the unwarranted
5aIC5 of these dangerous drugs all such efforts cartnot but go
naught.
And the menace cannat but spr~ad.
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.
GOVERNMENT ROL'NDS UP 164 DRUG TRAFFICKERS, PRODUCERS
Seoul THE KOREA TIMES in English 8 Aug 80 p 8
[ Text ] The Prosecvtoc-General's Che Chaeilgyopo Groups~ in Pu-
Q~ce~ announced yesterday ~aa end the Chungyang Group -
that its special investigation, in Taegu.
team had roun~icd up 164 peo- They are accused oE having
ple acroes the caintry ia a ptoduced 33i.5 kg of the stimu-
crackdowa m drug pusbers lant drug since their orgaaiza-
and maaufacturers and held 75 tiaa. Thh~t}*-two - members d
af them uader artes~ ~ ~ theae seven groupa ~vere alI
The arraigned include seven pIaced under arrest in, the
S~Pg ~ stinaulant drug "hi- cracl~down.
rop~on" tra~ekers, herap~ A total of 111 persons w~ee~e =
deslera and secret cultivators piclced up for producmg hemp .
PoPWes, They ~ will or asing marijuana. Of thetn
face charges ot violating the 33 were arrested and 7s were ~
- Psychotropic Drug Control , booked witha:t ~ pLysical de-
Law and the Fiemp Controi tentioa oa charges oE,vialating -
I:aw. ' ~ thn�Aemp Coafrol Law.
Thd special team, headed' by Elghteen ~ people were a~+- -
PGO prasecutors Kim Song-ki, raigned for cultivating opivm
con8acated 19.5 Yilogr~ms ot poppies and seven af them
hirbppon valued at 1,950 mil- were placed under arres~ The
llon � won � in the underground proc~cutioe said three medIcal
dnig. mark9t and 50.9,78Q doctors were. also arrested for
bundles of he~mp . worth . 8,900 giving habit-forming drug ia~
millfoa won �from the dlvg jectioas to patients or becom- _
pushers, the annauicement ing addicts themselves.
said. The PGO said the cirug con-
Tvveaty-siz prosecutors froi wwild t,e conkinued in-
teamed up with~ 20 drug agents definitely "until all drug of-
from the Health~Soclal AHain feaces are wiped vut."
Ministry, 22po
liee o~cers and
about 50 other investigators
for t,he ~drug cantrol, which
was cflnducted as part oE ~ the
on-going anti-crime campaiga
of the Specia! Committee fur
Natioaal Security Measures. �
The sevea hirappon rings
were aamed us iche Chuaggu
Group in Seoul,. the Samsu,
Kukche~ Chujang, Tongsik and
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SOUTH KGREA
BRIEFS
INTERNATIONALLY WANTID DRUG SMUGGLER--Tokyo Aug 13 KYODO--South Korean
prosecutors have arrested internationally wanted gang leader Pak Ro-sik
- in Seoul on charges of smuggling stimulant drugs into Japan, the
Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) said Wednesday. Pak, 42, a former
resident of Japan, was arrested last Thursday when Korean p rosecutors
raided drug smugglers in Seoul and Pusan. He was arrested direct~.y
for manufacturing 51 kilograms of stimulant drugs, with a street value
of yen 15.3 billion, at a secret plant in Yangsan, southeas tern Korea,
for smuggling into Japan. The MPD will ask South Korea to extradite
Pak and deliver seized documents to Japan in the expectation this will
expose a major Korea-Japan smuggling route. MPD said Pak f ormerly worked
for a Tokyo gang boss, but fled to South Korea in 1977 to elude a police
search. Since then, he allegedly smuggled stimulant drugs into Japan
aboard Korean fishing boats for distribution by underworld groups here.
MPD arrested about 28G gang members in connection with the case, but
regarded the still-at-large Pak as the key link in the smuggling chain.
Pa~C bought a large farm in Cheju Island from some of the billions of won
i.n profits he made on the drug smuggling according to Korean prosecutors.
[Text] [Tokyo KYODO in English no time given 13 Aug 80 OWJ
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THAILAND
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_ SURVEILLANCE LEADS TO BANGKOK HEROIV SEIZURE _
Bangkok BANGKOK PO ST in English 15 Jul 80 pp 1, 3
[TextJ After months of intensive surveillance, police yesterday seized
more than seven kilogra~nes of No 4 heroin--the largest amount so far .
this year--and made seven arrests. -
Police said Crime Suppression Division (CSD) police in coordination with
the Office of the Narcotics Control Board and the US Drugs Enforcement
Administration had been on the trail of the suspects for about six months,
travelling to all parts of the country to keep track of their movements.
Their ope.ration ended yesterday when, after trailing the suspects for the -
whole day, they managed to arrest f our of them, allegedly red-handed with
the heroin at Bangkok Bowl in Sapan Kwai, while three other suspects were
arrested aC a h~use on Phyathai Road a few hours later.
One of the three faces only a weapons possession charge.
The day-long surve illance began yesterday morning, when CSD police
followed a taxi driven by Arun Sirinuwattanakul, one of the suspects,
~ from Bukkalo area in 1'hon Buri Co Siam Centre, where he stopped and
wandered in th~ shopping area for a while. He later returned to his car
' and drove to the Bangkok Bowl, where he took two large sacks from. the taxi
and went ir~side.
Pollce Wd th~t h~ met~ weat to a hcwe in 3oi' The heroln selsed wu ment and a mazimum of
five oi the other sutp~cts Aramsri otf Pyy~thai contained 1n 20 plaatlc d~~, -
laalde. at whleh potnt Road, wdere th~y er-~ Da~s. each'wel~hlnQ over 'PUe ~uapecta arreeted
platnclatha~ pollce re~ted thr~e moe,e 360 ~rammes. Each Dag ~t the bowl were !d'en�
ae~nts moved In to taake iuapecta tnd ielsed s w~s neatly paeked, with tifled as t~f driver A}un,
- the asrset~. in the ~urry Subatu iedan. tl~e famous brand ot two S o rn s a e K o a w, M s
of action, two ot the. Potice Urw conf'~ted titers rtsppfn~ on a Qlobe lmornari Prathuanasak
w~pecta man~ed to e� the tul and ~ motottiycle, pcinted on it. Wai Sai�im sae Un~, and
cape� whfcb th~y aid wu u~d Folice said that aiz of Ms Hon~ Yaowapruk.
Howevsr., h~vinQ fol� ~ by aoothu mzn who keip the suspecb wdU tace a The three otbere arrested
low~d the asp~ts for a1~c watch for the ta:i, tollow� charQe oi poeieeelnQ were Anant Prasertsuk.
~ mot~tlu, pollce kr~ry W !n~ !t frnm Bukkalo to th~ ~tent to sell, ~ YuPtu Vachara tnd
th~ nupecb' houNa and BanQkok Bowl, whtch carrie~ a minJmum 8omport~ PeWee.
� ~eatence oi tlte ImpclsoA-
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THAILAND
_
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BRIEFS
CHINESE GETS '3 YEARS--Bangkok, 8 Jun--A 23-year-old Hong Kong Chinese
' was Friday sentenced to 33 years and four months in jail for attempting
to smuggle drugs out of T'hailand. Miss Yung Sau-chun was tried under
Thailand's new Narcotics Act which went into effect in April last year
and provides much stiffer penalties for drug offences. She was initially
sentenced to life imprisonment, but the term was reduced because she -
pleaded guilty. Miss Yung, a dressmaker in Hong Kong was arrested at _
Bangkok's Don Muang Airport February 13. Customs officials seized 221
grammes of No 3"brown sugar" heroin and 40 grammes of acetic anhydride, _
a chemical used to refine heroin.--NAB/AFP [Text] [Rangoon THE WORKING
PEOPLE'S DAILY in English 10 Jun 80 p 3]
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CANADA
RCMP F~P_RS MONTREAL MAY BECOME HEROIN TRAFFIC CENTER
Montreal LA PRESSE in French 18 Jul 80 pp A1, A3
- (Article by Andre Cedilot: "Montreal, The Heroin Road"]
[Text] Montreal runs the risk of becoming once again, as in the early
1970's, the international crossroads of heroin traffic followed a short
distance behind by Toronto. According to inspector Gilles Favreau of the
RCMP [Royal Canadian Mounted Police], because of the deterioration of re-
lations between Iran and the United States, the large urban centers of
Montreal and Toronto could become choice targets for traffickers wishing
to sell their drugs on the North American continent. Aware of the serious-
ness of the situation, the RCMP has warned the border points and the cus-
toms service to be on their guard to avert any resumption of the Canadian
connection.
With the Iranian crisis going on and on, the countries of the Middle East -
and Southeast Asia, recognized as producers of hashish, are becoming in-
creasingly dominant among the exportexs of heroin in Europe an3 North
America. -
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which is following the evolution of the
situation closQly, fears that Montreal might become once more, as in the =
early 1970's, the international crossroads of the heroin traffic. This
time, Toronto could also be involved. ,
According to inspector Gilles Favreau, in charge of the drugs unit of the _
RCMP, experts of INTERPOL [International Police] have determined that
Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, and Lebanon are likely to produce 1,800 me-
tric tona of unrefined opium this year. The countries of Southeast Asia,
considered for some years now as the major suppliers of the heroin traf-
_ fic in the whole world, will produce 100 tons on their part.
Of these 1,800 tons, the police estimate that about 1,000 tons are ear-
marked to the large number of opium users in the Middle East while the
rest are to go to users elsewhere. Once they are processed, the 800 ~ons
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or opium which the Arabs sell abroad yield approximately 80 tons of heroin,
_ which is nearly nine times world demand aggregating approximately 9 tons:
This phenomenon, according to the police, is essentially due to a relaxa-
tion in the surveillance of criminal operations in the Middle East, the
local law-enforcing agencies being much too busy with the social-political
crisis disrupting that part of the globe and more particularly Iran and
Afghanistan.
The police hope,incidentally,that the recent repressive measures ranging
all the way to the execution of drug traffickers,decreed by the Iranian
Government, will have a beneficial effect and will siow down the heroin
traffic from these remote regions.
So far it is especially the countries of Europe which have suffered from
the fallout of this drug surplus origi.nating in the Middle East. France
and Italy have been affected, but especially West Germany where opium _
refining laboratories have been found and sizable amounts of heroin seized
these past few months. Other details bearing evidence of the situation:-
In one year the price of a gram of heroin on the German market fell from
, 800 to 100 German marks. Also, many more cases of drug overdoses have
been reparted among drug addicts. -
In Montreal, the RCMP noted on its part that it has broken up, since the
start of the year, two important organizations which used to import the
famous white powder from Oriental markets. According to the investigation,
one of them was able to smuggle at least 6 kg of heroin, whose overall
value is estimated at nearly $3.6 million on the black market. About 40 "
individuals were arrested as a result of these two operations.
According to inspector Favreau, because of the increasingly tense relations
between Iran and the United States, the large urban centers of Montreal and
Toronto became choice targets for traffickers seeking to introduce their
- stock for sale on the North American continent.
"It is necessary to understand," the federal police officer exolained, "that
the trafiickers who deal in the Middie ~ast will not take too many chances
on smugg?~ng their drugs into the United States because of the extensive
surveillance there so that Montreal and Toronto become ideal avoidance
routes."
Aware of the problem, the RCMP is obviously on its guard and deploys its .
personnel as a consequence of the situation. All Canadian border points
and customs service stations have obviously been alerted to the situation
and asked to keep their eyes open. The authorities do not wish to relive
the good old days of the Canadian connection.
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I
CZECAOSLOVAKIA
BRIEF~
ANOTHER PHARMACY DRUG THEFT--An unidentified drug addict burglarized a phar-
macy located at Novodvorska ulice in Prague 4, getting away with 1,100
containers with codeine and a considerable amount of diazepam. The in-
' truder also took with him pharmacy prescription blanks and a rubber stamp.
[Prague LIDOVA DEMOKRACIE in Czech 28 Jul 80 p 3]
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HUNGARY
MORE YOUNGSTIItS ABUSING PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
Budapest ESTI HIRLAP in Hungarian 11 Aug 80 p 4
[Text] Narcotics: The very word brings images of the West European or
American hippie~, punks dressed in black from head to foot lounging on
benches in public squares. However, they are spoken of more and more _
here nowadays. We shudder as we see the teenagers congregated in under-
passes. "Incredible," we say, "horrible!" "They are destroying them-
selves!" "Have they nothing better to do?" "They have it too easy."
~ A few years ago there was talk only of some kind of sniffing. We found
this outrageous, too. Now a more dangerous method is spreading: drugs
in combination with liquor!
Shall we track down the narcot~c~? Where? How? In what manner? Can the
_ secretive, mistrustful youngsters be encouraged to speak? Because there
is no doubt that it is among them that we will find hard core of those
experimenting with drugs.
By coincidence, we receive a letter. It tells of youngsters corousing in
' underpasses, in drug-induced stupoz. Theq cut one another with wine
bottle fragments. One of them stabbed himself in the stomach. It seems
like an unbelievable tale.
. As I am dubiously studying the letter, its writer suddenly appears. He =
intruduces himself: "My name is Gorog. I am a university student. _
Without my asking for them, he shows me his identity and permit doctiments.
He offars to help put me into contact with those who abuse drugs, because
he knows them well.
I have instinctive doubts about this young man who now begins telephoning
and organizing. He calls the hospital where the one who stabbed himself
in the stomach was allegedly taken. Finally, he locates the youngster ~
at his apartment.
Now I am seated opposite him:
"What do you want to talk about?" the boy asks.
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"Narcotics."
"Why is the 'geza' important?"
"Why do you call it 'geza?"' I ask.
He smiles. "Because it makes one feel so gluey [mezgas]."
"When did you begin tripping?"
"I first tried it 2 and 1/2 years ago. I saw others doing it, but it did
not make me feel good so I stopped. And then I was frightened by one
~ example. They showed The Turkey--I did not want to be like him. He is
humpbacked and nothing but skin and bones."
"Is the sniff [drag?] good?"
"I do not recall very well. The others told me what I did. Somehow we
arrived at the Margaret Bridge where a dame was walking her dog. Allegedly
I began seriously courting--th~ dog! Later l did the same to an old dame.
"Have you seen others in such a state?"
"Of course! Seen from outside it is scarey. They can scarcely talk. They
stagger as though they were drunk."
"How many times have you tried it?"
"Just once." -
"I do not believe that."
_ "But it is the truth. I became frightened of it,"
"Where do you do it?" -
"At one time up on the Matyas Hill, near the stalagmite caves, but there -
are more and more cops there. And then one or twa of our 'cellmates`
- [vamzer: a cellmate who is an informer] t~ttled on us. Since then,
there is a new cave, so I hear."
The boy's shirt slips up. His arm is covered with scars, some fresher,
others healed. As many as 100.
"Blood brotherhood," he says and pushes up his sleeve. .
"B1ood brotherhood?"
"Each group seals its allegiance in blood. We cut our arms and touch the
bleeding wounds to each other while saying, 'we will stick together in ~
everything good, but not everything bad."'
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- "Only in what is good?"
"We decide everything together. But, for example, if somebody wants to
break in somewher.e, not everyone is obliged to go along with him."
"And those who do not go, do yc~u expel them?"
"Not at all. That is their bus~ness. There is individual freedom!"
There are masses of cuts: a bit too many pledges sealed in blood.
"Sametimes I have cut myself and there has not been enough bleeding.
At other times when I am nervous, I have tried it out, I bleed m~self
thoroughly and that calms me."
"I heard that someone stabbed himself in the stomach after taking drugs
in the underpasa," I try to approach the delicate matter tactfully.
"Who said that?"
"Gorog," I reply cautiously.
He sneers, sarcastically: "That was I."
He shows mz the ugly scar.
"How did it happen?"
"Gorog lied," he says after thinking a bit. "It happened on the bank of
the Dantibe, not at the underpasa. And it happened weeks ago, not yester-
day."
� He takes a deep breath:
"I went down to the Danube and sat alone for a while. Then I suddenly
stabbed myself with my stiletto and went back to Batthany Sq~uare. My
pals tied up the wound and called the ambulance."
"Why did you do it? Was it the influence of the drugs?"
"I do not remember."
"You have been honest so far!"
"I guess I got fed up with life."
?r~.l ~ ~i
y�
"I had had enough of everything. The whole business was making me nervous."
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"Let's get back to the drugs. How did you get them?"
"You have to forge. A pencil can be used to transfer the stamp to the
prescription form. We all know what to write on the form by heart. Then
, we hand it to the pharmacist, and he either accepts or rejects it.
_ Chances are better in the country, because they are not paying so much
attention to us there yet."
"Aren't you afraid?"
"Why should I be afraid?"
"Because you spilled the beans. You have sung about the whole affair."
"I have sung only about myself. In any case, I am no longer interested.
This wi11 make matters neither better nor worse for the rest."
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ARGENTINA -
BRIEFS
COCA ?EAVES SEIZED--Salta, 27 Aug (NA)--The police ha.ve arrested Julio
Macario and Mario Eraso for carrying 90 kilograms of c oca leaves in their
pickup truck in Pocitos, near the Bolivian border. [PY272140 Buenos Aires
NOTICIAS ARGENTINAS in Spanish 1530 GMT 27 Aug 80]
ANTIDRUG TRAFFIC SEMINAR--The national meeting to f ight drug in Argentina
began today and wilY last until Friday. [PY272140 Buenos Aires LA PRENSA
in Spanish 26 Aug 80 p 7]
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BOLIVIA
BRIEFS
~ U.S. A ID CUTOI~'F DEPLORED--La Paz, 30 Jul (AFP)--Interior Minister Col Luis
Arce sa id today that the United S~tates will be responsible for the increase
of cocaine traffic because it has given the green light to the Bolivian
connec tion by doing away with the aid to fighz drug traffic. The Bolivian
narcotics office explained that it is doing what it can to fight the traffic
but that without the help received, it will not be as effective as in the
past. The minister added that the drug traffickers will act at will, and
; that th is will not create a greater consw,zption in the country but uncon-
_ trolled exports. He warned that the increase in the drug traffic will
therefore be the responsibility of President Ji~y Carter. He said that
this U.S. aid was more important than the military aid which means nothingi
- , in rela tion to how the fight against drug traffic will he affected. LText/
LPY3101 11 Paris AFP in Spanish 0023 GMT 31 Jul 80/
COCAINE FACTORY LISCOVERED--Sucre--Ma~ (Emilio Bustos), local head of the
dangerous drugs department today reported that on 5 August a cocaine factory
was dis covered in Copavilque, Chiquisaca Department. The plant.~aas about to
begin manufacturing cocaine base. The following persons were involved in
the operation: Demetrio Daza, Zenon Escalier Valdivieso, Fausto Escalier
Valdiviesc, Antonio Gonzalez Mendez and Edgar Mendez Delgadillo. [PY211844
La Paz Radio Illimani Network in Spanish 1700 GMT 21 Aug 80 PY]
MARIHUANA SEIZED--During a routine inspeetion of the c:argo carried by a
truck travelling to La Paz the police seized 2,100 kg of marihuana which -
was packed in four nylon bags. This took place in Rio Seco, 17 1~ from -
La Paz City. [PY290327 La Paz Radio Illimani Network in Spanish 0100 GMT
29 Aug 80J _
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BRAZIL
~
FORMER COUNCILMAN SENTENCED TO 14 YEARS FOR TRAFFICKING
Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 31 Jul 80 pp l, 13
[Text] Former councilman Renato Ramos da Silva, alias Dunga, was sentenced
yesterday by the court of Angra dos Reis to 14 years of imprisonment, 2 of
which he ~vill spend in an agricultural settlement, for trafficking in drugs.
_ The crime committed by Dunga was considered to be of inedium seriousness
which is why, according to the judge, he was sentenced to 9 years in prison,
plus one-third and more as a security measur.e. In handing down
- sentence, the judge said that the criminal always was extre~ely careful,
selling drugs to adults and minors, basing his activities in his own home.
Former councilman Renato Ramos da Silva, alias Dunga, of Angra dos Reis,
was sentenced yesterday to 14 years of imprisonment, 2 of which he will
= spend in an agricultural settlement, for. trafficking in drugs. Sentence ~
was handed down by judge Nelson Caetano da Silva, 41 days after the DGA
had ordered his preventive arrest on 19 June. The former councilman (his
mandate was cancelled by the Chamber) was taken to the 83rd Police
Precinct after being charged in a report prepared by Federal Police officers.
The crime committed by Dunga was classified as being of inedium seriousness;
this is why, according to the ~udge, one-third was added to the 9-year
prison sentence. In his ruling, the ~udge emphasized that the criminal~
"although he has no prior golice record," was engaged in drug trafficking
"certainly for the past 3 years."
The judge also ordered the confiscation, for the government, of the amount
of 70,000 cruzeiros, found in the former councilman's home, "whose origin
' was not explained" but which is believed to be the result of drug sales.
"The report says," the judge noted in his ruling, "that the criminal always
was extremely careful, selling drugs to adults and minors, basing his
activities on his own home, whe:e he periodically held drug parties, start-
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The charges against the former councilman are based on investigations. In
this case, the most convincing investigation was presented by Aurelio Pedro
Pereira de Resende who told about p urchasing an envelope of marihuana and
cocaine at Duque dP Caxias. According to Aur elio, the drugs were in plastic
pouches in the refrigerator in Dunga's home.
The former councilman's defense attorney argued that there was no evidence
and that the charges had not been proven; he noted that the charges were =
based "exclusively on the testimony of persons suspected for reasons now to
be considered of a personal nature or moral coercion."
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BRAZIL
MAJOR DRUG TRAFFICKER ARRESTED IN RIO -
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' Rio de Janeir~ 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 5 A~~g 80 p 13
~Text] Renato de Souza Santos, 47, alias Tonelada, one of the biggest -
drug traffickers in Rio, responsible for the large-scale supply of dozens
of other small dealers, was arrested along with Maria da Penha Cruz da Silva--
one of the persons who waa making contacta for him--and taken to the Drug -
Department last Saturday. The imprisonment of the couple, which was kept
secret, was disclosed only yesterday but Chief Aloisio Russo--citing the
provisions of the Arug Law and the need for maintaining secrecy in the
further pursuit of investigations--refused to talk about the matter, merely
confirming the arrest.
Attorney Tercio Lins e Silva, who is the defense attorney, tried to obtain
the release of the eouple by submitting two petitions of "habeae corpus."
The attorney argued, in talking to Judge Joe Roberto Machada, of the 14th
Criminal Court (located in the Palace of Justice), that his client had
been arrested illegally. The Judge went to the Department and since he
did not find the records, which had been taken home by Deputy Chief Wladimir
Reale, he instead placed Inspector Sidney, who was on duty, under arrest,
and gave the Chief half an hour te report to his office.
The rumor making the round~ ir. the corridora of the Specialized Police re-
vealed that, upon arriving in the Judge's chambers, with the records, the
Chief found the two prisoners, the police of~icer who had received the
- arrest order> and the attorney. He then showed *_he arrest records to the
Judge and the latter confirmed the legality of the arrest, denying the
"habeas corpus" petitions. Nobody in the Drug Department wanted to talk
about that and doubt was cast upon the fact that the whole thing happened
in the first place.
Arrests
The operation leading to the capture of Tonelada be~an in the Forum itself,
where a police officer 15 days ago recognized Maria da Penha next to her
former hueband, likewise a drug trafficker, by the name of Jorge Manoel
da Silva, alias Jorge Barracao. She was tailed during the following days
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and on Saturday she was ~rrested in a home she occupied on Gilberto Andrade
Goulart Street, in Penha. There police officers found 300 grams of pure
cocaine and she told them that she had received the drugs from Tonelada.
~
Shortly afterward, Renato was caught in *:~e act in his home, in an apart- ~
ment on General Venancio Flores Street. in Leb lon. Here police officers
confiscated 175 grams of cocaine, 170,000 cruzeiros in currency, three
checks totaling 160,000 cruzeiros, an~ another one, drawn on Bradesco,
~ issued by Maria da Penha, in the amount of 400,000 cruzeiros, made out to
Marly Braz de Jesus, who is the mistress of 'Conelada and controls all of
his assets and money.
Police also took a VASP [Sao. Paulo Airline] round-trip ticket to Campo
Grande and a forged identity card from the Felix Pacheco Institute in the
~ name of Pedro Custonio Ribeiro. Tonelada used that card only when he went
to Campo Grande anc: Corumba to pick up cocaine from a pers~n in that last-
named city who was identified only by the first name Joao. These trips
were made four or five times a month, The monthly cocaine movement of the
~ trafficker in Rio, according to police investigations, is on the order of
- 15 kilogram~, He purchases the drug in Corumba at 300,000 cruzeiros per
kilogram and resells it Rio at 700,000 cruzeiros.
The apartment in which he lives with Marly--w:~o was not arrested because
she is sick--is rented for 70,000 cruzeiros per monih. The confiscation
of four expired and paid promissory notes--running from ].ast January to .
May--worth 440,000 cruaeiros, each, enabled the p olice to be sure that
Tonelada is purchasin g the building on the installment plan, In the
building's garage, p o lice officers found a Corcele and a Belina, both of
them new, which Tonelada used. Shortly before, in the house of Penha,
police officers had confiscated a Brasilia and a Chevette, likewise new.
"Wholesalers" ~
An investigation condu cted some time ago by the Drug Department and f or-
warded to the Securi ty Secretariat shows that the three big drug whole-
salers in Rio are Tonelada, Jorge Barricao and Geraldo da Beatriz. They
supply Morro Azul and Morro Dona Marta, in Boraf ogo, Providencia, in
Centr.al do Brasil and Vicente de Carvalho, supplying drugs to smaller
dealers such as Jorge Carrulo, Petro Ribeiro, and Cacau.
~ Jorge Barracao was released recentl;~ by the Department of Justice but is
scheduled to go on trial for drug trafficking in the 15th Criminal Dis-
trict. Geraldo da Be atriz--who was arrested some time ago by the Federal
= Police in Caceres, Mato Grosso, with 4 kilograms of cocaine, and who
managed to eacape at the time--was arrested in Paraguay.
Renato got the nickname Tonelada around 1974 when he was arrested with a
large quantity of drugs and already had t~ao sentences on his record. The
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first one was handed down in October 1970 by the 16th Criminal District on
drug trafficking charges, as well as under the provisions of the old Article
281 of the Criminal C~..e; at that time he was sentenced to 2 years and 8
- months of imprisonment. The second sentence, i_ikewise on the same charges,
involving drug trafficking, under number 2.675, in 1975, got him 3 years
and 2 months of imprisonment.
Confiscation of Property
Tonelada earlier lived on Epitacio Pessoa Avenue, in Ipanema, and on
Manoel Marreiros Street, on Govenor's Island; he used this address to
register his cars. The trafficker had already been arrested twice by
the Federal Police; un one of these occasions, last year, he confessed
that he was dealing in cocaine which was brought in to Rio from Bolivia,
picking up the drt~.gs in Corumba, and that he always made those trips alone
because he did not trust anybody. The druge were brought in quite calmly
in his luggage.
In his apartment he lives with three adopted children and two domestic
servants. An investigation started yesterday revealed that he has only
two chacking accounts amounting to 800,000 cruzeiros. His wife handles
= the couple's money; her bank accounC is more Chan 2 million cruzeiros.
Chief Aloisio Russo yesterday took the same step that was taken when the
trafficker Cacau was arrested fo.r tt?e first time; he began to list the
assets of Tonelada for confiscation under ~udicial procedures. A pre-
liminary survey showed that he had ass.ets of between 10 and 15 million
cruzeiros. He is unable to prave how he obtained this income, according
to the police, since ~he has no legitimate business.
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BRAZIL
MANY TRAFFICKERS TAKEN OUT OF CIRCULATION IN RIO SINCE O~TOBER -
Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 4 Aug 80 p 8
[Text] Between October 1979 and April of this year, the Drug Department in
Rio conclucted 130 drug busts. Chief Aloi3io Russo (currently relieved of
duty on doctor's advice) credited the good results achieved in recent
months to telephone calls stimu].ated ~y his department in making phone
numbers 243-9406 and 223-9406 available to anybody who wanted to inform
the police or names of drug traffickers and places where they usually
operate. The person making the report need not identify himself or heraelf.
Ever since the two telephone lines were made available to citizens of Rio,
about 700 kilograms of pressed marihuana and more than 1,000 envelopes of
cocaine were confiscated. Following analysis at the Carlos Eboli Instit~ste,
, the material was turned over to�the Department of Justice and then
burned.
As a result of an agreement signed last year, the Drug Department in Rio
now has the cooperation of the Federal Police. Cooperation does not in-
volve ~oint operations, as exp3.ained by Chief Claricio, who is in charge
of the pub lic relations section of the Federal Police Bepartment:
"The ma~t important thing is the exchange of information. Let us say that
the Drug Department has information on the presence of traffickers in
Foz do Iguacu or some other ~ilace. The Federal Police is advised and its
agents will nab the traffickers. ~
nrug Department head Aloisio Russo explained how the agreement with the
Federal Police works:
- "We exchange informat:~on whenever possible. Thus there is never any gap in
the updating ~f our files."
He announced that 306 drug traffick~rs were taken out of ~circulation since =
~ctober, an average of 30 per month, "which is very good."
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"We also maraged to place some big traffickers, such as Pedro Velho and
- Benicio, under preventive arrest. But that is not all. The sale of
marihii~na and cocaine in Morro da Providencia and Morro Santa Marta, in -
Batofogo, has been practically reduced to zero. I was in Morro da
Providencia and I was able to see that there was almost no movement. The
owners of the smoke shops are scared."
Alo~io Russo thinks that the drug market has dropped as a result of the
recent imprisonment of traffickers such as Jose Carlos de Souza, alias
- Cacau, the owner of the one of the biggest marihuana and cocaine sales
~ outlets in Morro Azul, in Botafogo, described as the man who ordered the
- murder of the student Ivan 'Franca Salgado dos Santos, of Santa Ursula
University, in May 1978.
The team from the Drug Department began a survey of the goods of ~:he arrested
trafficker which will be handed over to the Department of Justice as evi-
dence of his unlawful gains.
Connections
_ Officers from the Drug Department explained that the drugs came into Rio
on ships, in the luggage compartments of interstate buses, primarily those _
that come from Mato Grosso and Goias, and most of the time they are hidden
_ in the cargo of trucks comir.g from the couutry's interior.
In Rio and Sao Paulo, the me.rr.handise is dietributed .and resold through
"pushers." They can pass them on to the addicts but when a very big
- "shipment" is involved, tt~ey send it on to Europe or the United Statea,
where there~is a tremendous consumption of marihuana and cocaine.
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BRAZIL
RING SUPPLYING 'FUNABEM' WITH MARIHUANA DISBANDED
Brasilia CORREIO BRAZILIENSE in Portuguese 19 Jul 80 p 13
[Text] Concerned about the traffic in marihuana and narcotics in the
facilities of FUNABEM [National Child Welfare FoundationJ in 3rasilia,
headquartered in Gama, Ary Sardela, chief of the palica juvenile division,
yesterday ordered agents Soracio, Nazareno and Ciro to investigate some
leads, resulting in the dismantling of a drug ring. Most of the traffickers
- had connections within FUNABEM. The ring also supplied the [Internment and
~eeducation] Center, charging exorbitant prices f.or the drugs.
~ "Operation Gerere" was carried out last night by agents of the vigilance -
section of the Juvenile Division, in conjunction with two police squads
from the Regional Narcotics Division of the Federal Police Department.
The operation resulted in the arrest of 10 traffickers, including one woman,
in the Sohemian aector around Km 7 on the highway linking Brasilia and Belo
Horizonte.
One of the traffickers who made direct ~ontact with the juvenile delinquents
dealing in drugs in the FUNABEM facilities in Gama is Lauro Wagner Zingaro, _
resident of QSC 13, House 10, Taguatinga. Convicted of drug trafficking,
Lauro had been sent to the Papula Internment and Reeducation Center.
Arrested along with Zingaro, who is well known to federal p~iice, were
Almir Antonio Alves Mota, residing at QNH 11, Lot 30, Taguatinga; Jadir
Vinicius de Oliveira, QSC 16, House 7, Taguatinga; Paulo Cesar Lembe Alves, -
QNB 3, Lot 23, maguatinga; Marcus Aurelio Bomtempo, QNM 17, D Complex,
Lot 25, Ceila:~clia; benito Schettino, QNB 9, House 2, Taguatinga; Ronaldo
Coelho de Lima, QSA 12, Lot 16, Taguatinga; Ari Goes de Paula, QSA 21,
- Lot 15, Taguatinga; and Valeria Rosane Alves, who lives at "Salao Rosa"
in the red-light district of Km 7.
Fugitive Gave Lead -
Minor M.I., known in the "smoke holes" as "Mancha Negra," a fugitive from
FUNABEM, was arrested in Gama by agents of the 14th Precinct of that
satellite city, with two bricka of marihuana in his possession. Taken to
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_ the Juvenile Division, "Mancha Negra" confessed to agent Horacio, chief of
the vigi lance secti~n, that he had bought the "grass" for 3,000 cruzeiros
from Aimi r Alves Mota, who was later arreated at his home.
On arres t ing Mota, the police learned of the drug ring. They pursued their
search a t the Castelino Luncheonette, in Taguatinga, where they found
marihuana in the possession of the luncheonette customers. "Operation
Gerere" a lso extended to the Bohemian sector of Km-7, where Valeria Alves,
one of the drug ring members, was arrested and taken to the Regional
Narcotic s Division, along with nine other individuals.
Large Ring
Despite the arrest of the 10 traffickers, most of whom had Federal Police
records, police are convinced that the ring has not been completely destroyed.
Hence Chief Ari Sardeia is also investigating other leads in an effort to
put an end to the drug traffic that has been occurring in the FUNABEM
fac:lities since the agency's inception.
A second operation should be carried out c~ithin da~s, but the agents
declined to give away the locations, "in order not Co alarm the 'smoke
squadrons .
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BRAZIL
' COCAINE ARRESTS IN RIa DISTRICT
Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 15 Jul 80 p 13
['rextJ Salustiano Canela, aged 40,a driver for DETRAN, and seamstress _
Romilda dos Santos, aged 29, were arrested by the Narcotics Division for
selling cocaine in Fatima District. In addition to 9 grams of cocaine,
the driver also had in his possession a 1,000-cruzeiro bill, presumed to
be counterfeit, which was taken to the Federal Police Division of Crimes
Against the Treasury for examination.
The seamstress was reported several clays ago by an anonymous caller.. (The
Narcotics Division has made telephone lines 223-9406 and 243-9406 available ~
to callers wishing to report traffickers and addicts.) The seamstress was
arrested in her apartment on Rua Costa Barros, Fatima District. The police _
arrested Canela at the same apartment the following d~y, when he went to
pick up the payment for 10 grams of cocaine which he had sold to dos Santos.
Denies All
Narcotics officers arrived at Romilda's dwelling, Apartment 101, 55 Rua _
Costa Barros, with a search and arrest warrant. On a small night table
they found three packets of cocaine and a Cefadil bottle containing 9 more
grams of cocaine. Dos 5antos said she had been selling cocaine, either
at Prado Junior or at her apartment, for 5 months. According to the seam-
stress, she bought the cocaine from Canela for 900 cruzeiros per gram and
cut it with boric acid. The packets went for 300 cruzeiros and her supplier
was paid only after the cocaine had been sold.
Dos Santos also reported that her supplier would come looking for her the
next day (she was arrested Saturday), to receive gayment for the 10 grams
she had bought a few days earlier. The police kept watch on her apartment
and finally arrested Salustiano Canela (married, aged 40, Apartment 403,
Block 4, Avenida Borges de Medeiros 669, Cruzada Sal Sebastiao). Canela
was delivering another 9 grams of cocaine. In addition to a check for
45,000 cruzeiros, signed by Nicolau Depes Jr against the Banco Itau, the
police found 30,000 cruzeir~s and a 1,000-cruzeiro bill, No A-0867034206-A,
which appeared to be counterfeit, in his possession. ~
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The counterfeit bill lacked the sharpness of a true engraving, and its
colors were muddy, which attracted the attention of the police. It appeared
to have been reproduced, using a chemical process, from a reaY bill. In
police circles the method is known as "guitar." The bill was sent to the
Federal Police for expert examination, and the possible circulation of the
counterfeit bills will be investigated.
Althougt~ he was identified by dos Santos in a police line-up, Canela denies
he was a trafficker, claiming the drugs in his possession were for his own
- use. He said the 45,000-cruzeiro check was from the sale of his car; he
explained the 30 [sic] cruzeiros as "my winnings at the horse races." He
added that he usually bought cocaine from a trafficker in Jardim Botanico,
a husky negro of average height wl:om he knowa only by the nickname "Marrom."
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BRAZIL
BRIEFS
EMFA PROPOSES DRUG COI~IITTEE--The EMFA (Armed Forces General Staff) sent a
study to the Office of the President of the Republic, proposing the creation
of an intermintsterial commission to coordinate a nati4nwide drive against
drugs. According to the study, which li.~ts the reasons that persuaded the
EI~A to make the proposal, the commission would consist of representatives
from the EMFA, the ministries of justice, education and health, and the
SECOM [Mass Media Secretariat]. [Text] [R3.o de Janeiro 0 GLOBQ in
Portuguese 31 Jul 80 p 6] 5058
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_ COLOMBIA
PRESIDENT DISCUSSES DRUG PROBLEM AT JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS
Bogota EL SIGLO in Spanish 21 Jul 80 p 7
[Speech by President Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala to the ~oint inaugural
sess~on of congress on 20 July 1980]
[Excerpt] The Battle Against Drug Traff icking
One of the problems that my administration has been most concerned
about since its outset is the intensified growing of marihuana and
coca, owing to the economic and moral turmoil that this filthy
market causes and because of the bt~dgetary and administrative
requirements to hold it in check. The government has exe:ted
vigorous and ongoing efforts in this regard, but we must acknowledge
that this is a problem of major scope and one that prompts aerious
concern in official circles.
Among the many major operations undertaken, I would point to the one
con~ucted during the last 2 weeks of January in the towns of Mira-
flores and Cucuru in the jurisdictions of Guaviare and Vaupes.
Air Force and DAS [Administrative Department of Security~ agents and
investigators were sent there and discovered no fewer than 2,500
hectares of coca plantations, confiscated weapons and laboratory
equipment for processing cocaine, seized large amounts of the drug
and arrested about 20 alleged rraffickers, who were placed in the
~ ~ustody of the appropriate magistrates.
]
The Armed Forces and the Office of the Attorney General have conducted
major antidrug~ trafficking o~erations and confiscated sizable am~unts
of marihuana and cocaine. The National Police's F-2 has also
conducted numerous investigations and made extremely important
seizures, while the PAS and Customs have confiscatedl a number of
shipments and placed several individuals whom they nabbed in the
custody of appropriate magistrates.
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Along the Atlantic coast, i: particular in the departments of La
Guajira, Cesar and Magdalena, msny light planes, trucks and other
vehicles presumably used in drug trafficking have been seized, and
the fi~es provided for in Decree 2144 of 1978 have been imposed. _
We have intensified cooperation with the Government of the United
States of America in order to wipe out one of the most dangero~is of
criminal activities, drug trafficking, which corrupts morals, _
distorts the economy and has lethai effects on its victims.
In addition to the administrative agreements signed by Colombian and
U.S. Government officials, we have signed a new extradition treaty,
which is now before the Congress, and we are about to finalize the
Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, which will be a useful weapon in the -
resolute battle against the powerful, defiant and audacious drug
trafficking gangs that continue plying their deadly trade.
The government is taking a look at se[ting up a special civilian
force to carry out, as soon as possible, the mission that was
temporarily assi.gned to the Armed Forces in the battle against drug
trafficking. The military commands have put forth good reasons,
which I share, why our troops shoul.d not be engaged in activities
that are not properly theirs and that, moreover, are fraught with
various kinds of dangers. A new body that will be subject to military
discipline but that will not be part of the military forces will
begin operating very soon. We will thus commence a new stage in the
difficult task that we have taken upon ourselves ir. battling powerful
organizations that are not readily halted by crackdowns and that,
in fact, are multiplying all over our vast homeland.
- The government is alone in waging its battle against this thre'~at.
It is not getting any sort of citizen cooperation, nor does society
even isolate and expel reputed traffickers from its midst. Alth~ugh
- there is probably no legal evidence against these individuals, there
does exist a moral conviction that they are responsible.
I think that we still have time to react vigorously against the spread
of this social cancer. I enthusiastically appeal to Congress, to
our system of justice, to the church, to educators, to the mass media
and to the entire Golombian nation tn join the battle that the
government is waging in unequal conditiona against this most dangerous
threat to our society. Any slacking off in the battle would be fatal.
The enemy is dangerous, and we must deal with him harshly if we really _
want to render him powerless.
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INFORMER LEADS TO HEROIN TRAFFICKERS' ARREST
Nuevo Laredo EL DIARIO DE NUEVO LAREDO in Spanish 26 Jul 80 Sec C p 3
[Text] A"stool pigeon" for the narcotics officials in Laredo, Texas, provid-
ed the Federal Judicial Police the clue to the capture of a pair of drug
= traffickers in this town.
The poison dealers answer to the names of Guadalupe Hernandez Salazar, aged
51, and residing at Arteaga and Lampazos, and Mrs Maria Elena Valle de Her- _
nandez, aged 45, and residing at 2316 Donato Guerra.
This couple's arrest took place in the customs area and was made by federal
agents as they were driving a 1971 Dodge station wagon.with license plates
756-NY. A"sample" of pure heroin was found in their possession.
The presumed traffickers were ir~ediately taken to the "dungeon" of the Fede-
ral Palace, where Guadalupe Hernandez was interrogated. He confessed that
he and Maria Elena had.been engaged in this business for a short time, claim-
ing that he had brought the heroin from a settlement cal~~d Tierra Colorada,
in Guerrero.
He admitted that, the first time that he went to the state of Guerrero, he
took with him 8 ounces of heroin, which he sold in Laredo, Texas, to some
individuals who paid him 1.2 million pesos. He maintained that the drug
had been turned over to him on commission, so that he could obtain assis-
tance, since he was without a~ob and had no funds with which to escape _
from poverty.
As for Maria Elena, she denied being connected with Guadalupe Hernandez in
the drug trafficking, claiming that she did live with him, but that was all.
It was learned from police sources that the "stool pigeon" had sold the in-
formation to the federal police for a large amount of money, with the result
that they captured this couple who were only "taking their first steps."
It was assured that the individual who supplied the drug to the couple would
be arrested, :since, according to the federal police, his residence has been
- located.
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Mrs Maria Elena Valle de Hernandez Mr Guadalupe Hernandez, aged 51, was
denied the charges, claiming that arrested in the customs area, with a
she knows ncthing about drugs, and "sample" of pure heroin in his posses-
was unaware of Guadalupe's business sion, while driving to his residence
dealings. in a station wagon.
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MEXICO
1
FITRTHER DETAILS ON GUERRERO HEROIN TRAFFICKING RING -
Nuevo Laredo EL MANANA in Spanish ~6 Jul 80 Sec B p S
[Text] The capture of ex-convict Guadalupe Hernandez Salazar (indicted for
drug trafficking) and of a woman named Maria Elena Valle Hernandez, from
whom a rneroin "sample" they were carrying in order to sell 5 ounces of the
powder G;as seized, caused the collap.se of the activities of a well organized -
_ drug trafficking ring operating on an international s~ale, from which huge
amounts of drugs were confiscated in the state of Guerrero, and in Laredo
and douston, Texas.
Most of the drugs were seized in the settlement known as Tierra Colorada, in
Guerrero, where federal agents discovered a clandestine.lahoratory in which
Francisco Vega, Jacinto Vega Vega and other individuals.had already processed
several kilograms of heroin. ~
- Yesterday, the coordinating office of the Federal Public Ministry agencies
reported that, last Tuesday federal.agents under orders from Commander Espin-
dola intercepted the 1971 Dodge pickup truck, with.license plates 756-ZNY,
driven by Guadalupe Hernandez Salazar, who was accompanied by Maria Elena
Valle Hernandez.
The federal police had previously learned that the couple had.been offering
5 ounces of heroin for sale at a price of $15,000. _
At the time of their arrest, a small amount of a brown substance was found
_ in their possession, and proved to be heroin. When questioned, they said
that some individuals from Laredo, Texas, had offered them b ig profits if
they would procure a customer for the 5 ounces of powder in their possession.
- Commander Espindola Martinez turned over the information that had been obtain-
ed to the narcotics authorities in Laredo, Texas, where several persons were
apparently arrested, as were others in Houston, Texas.
_ When the investigation was continued, it was found that the drugs seized here
- and in Laredo, Texas, came from Tierra Colorada, Guerrero. There, federal
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- agents conducted successful probes, which culminated in the capture of seve-
ral persons from whom a huge.amount of heroin was confiscated.
They Had Already Sold Heroin
Pioreover, it was reported that, when GuadalupQ Hernandez Salazar, aged 51,
and a resident of 5512 Arteaga Street, and Maria Elena Valle Hernandez, aged
- 3;, and residing at 2316 Donato Guerra ~treet, were arrested by the Federal
Judicial Police, they confessed that i:iey had recently made a sale of a mode- -
rate amount of heroin.
- At Maria Elena's residence, they had $2,600 collected from drug sales .
It was also ~oted that, about a year ago, Guadalupe. Hernandez had lef t the
- Social Rehabilitation Cen.ter, where he had been confined,serving a sentence
for drug trafficking.
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MEXICO
TRAFFlCKER y ACCOMPLICE MURDERED IN NUEVO LEON
H. Matamoros EL BRAVO in Spanish 20 Jul 80 p 8
[Excerpts ] The drug trafficker Carlos "El Negro" Barrera Santillana, aged
30, and his employee, Jose Saldana Garcia, aged 35, were found shot to death
and lying on a plot of land inCended to be used for the Nuevo Leon Develop-
ment Section, south of the Lauro Villar highway, about 8 kilometers from the
- beach .
The bodies were found about 1230 hours by forces of the Municipal Rural Police
after an anonymous phone call had been received by the State Judicial Police
from a person who did not identify himself, but who reported two corpses on
that site, giving exact details of the location of the deceased.
The bodies were badly decomposed. It is believed that the killings took
place ~n Sun3ay night or at dawn on Monday. The motive for them is presumed
~ to be the fact that the drug trafficker "El Negro" Barrera had created a
reputation for "swimming i~" -.�hipme~~s of ~mar~huai;a.
Throughout all of Sundaq afternoon, Carlos "El Negro" Barrera had been seen
- on the Lauro Villar beach with his employee Jose Saldana Garcia, and Sabino
Saldana as well as another individual.
Sabino Saldana is the key to the explanation of this double homicide, because
he is very knowledgeable about the incident, and may even have taken part in
it.
However, he disappeared mysteriously yesterday at dawn. Individuals who saw
him on Monday claim that he had several bruises on his face, and said that
_ he had been in a fight at the beach, but knew nothing of the whereabouts o.f _
"El Negro" Barrera, The police authorities are seeking Sabino Saldana to
question him about these incidents.
Barrera Santillana was found about 10 meters from the body of his employee
Jose Saldana Garcia. On the scene of the crime, there were clues indicating
. that the bodies had been th.rown there. There were tracks of a small truck
with heavy treads and wide tires .
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"E1 Negro" Barrera had a bullet wound in the chest, one in the head, and an- ~
other in the right leg. They were all from a.~.heavy caliber weapon, and left ~
holes through which the bullets had emerged. Barrera Santilla resided at
- 110 Guerrero Street, between 3 and 4, next to a car wash establishment owned
by him. ~
_ Jose Saldana Garcia, aged 35 and a resident of No 22 Bagdad Street, at the I
- corner of Roberto F. Garcia, in the Delicias Complex, had two ~oullet wounds I
in the right parietal area, one of which left a hole where the bullet had -
- emerged at the nape of the neck. He sustained another bullet wound on the i
right side, at the waist, and his face was also completely disfigured, pos- I
sibly as a result of the impact.from a 12 caliber shotgun.
In the vicinity of the bodies there were six burned 12 caliber shotgun car- ~
tridges, as wel~ as unopened beer between the two corpses.
There were no shells of other calibers, a fact which backs the assumpt�ion
_ that "E1 Negro" Barrera and Jose Saldana were killed elsewhere and thrown
in the aforementioned location, about 200 meters south o~ the Lauro Villar
highway, at kilometer 32. ~
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'"he individual who reported this incident to the State Judicial Police, and
who refused te identify himself, gave details on where tha bodies could be ~
found, as they actually were.
The anonymous call was received at 1150 hours yesterday, when the caller in- ~
quired whether Mr Zolezi was present. The judicial policema.n on guard re-
plied that he was not, and asked what he wanted, to which the unidentified ~
person answered: "I only want to inform you that there are two dead bodies ~
near the beach where they were going to build a complex, next to a water
storage tank." The guard asked hxm who was calling, and the anonymous in- ;
formant reulied: "I won't tell you; I am only notifying you, and you will '
decide whether to go or not."
Since there was some doubt as to the reliability of that anonymous caller, +
about 15 minutes elapsed before the ~udicial policeman on guard notified !
his superior, Ricardo Zolezi, as well as Police Inspector Ramon Franco Bel-
~ mares, whereupon the police mobilized. ~
~ The bodies were identified when they arrived at the Glayosso Funeral Home.
Mrs Elvia Guadalupe Valdez de Barrera identified her husband, Carlos Barrera
Santillana; and Mrs Gregoria Gonzalez identified her husband, Jose Saldana '
Garcia. .
Mrs Gregoria Gonzalez de Saldana said that only Sabino Saldana had returned
from the beach, at about 0200 hours on Monday morning. Ae arrived with
signs of a beating, stating yesterday that he had been iti a fight at the ~
beach, but had gone separately from Carlos Barrera, whom he claimed to have
seen in his small truck with other persons. i
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He acted very suspiciously, and at dawn yesterd.ay he disappeared with his
clothes. He lived in a machine shop owned by "E1 Negro" Barrera, and situat-
ed at Bagdad and Roberto F. Garcia Streets. He has not been located anywhere,
and it is believed that he took part in the incident, or else knows the per-
son or persons who are responsible.
"E1 Negro" Barrera, while driving his tan 19$0 Ford pickup truck, with license
plates 255-ZRV, accidentally hit a Ford LTD car at the entranee to the beach.
There was a discussion and, when members of the naval sector intervened, "E1 ~
Negro" Barrera was arrested a;id turned over to the Federal Highway Police.
Last night, the latter department reported that it actually knew about the
incident, but claimed that it had no further information available, because
the agent who had intervened was not there.
"E1 Negro" Barrera's pickup truck is being held in the traffic department's
yards. It had been struck in the front bumper.
Inasmuch as the Federal Highway Police did not provide further information
regarding this collision, it is presumed that '"E1 Negro" Barrera was released,
~ and left the pickup truck in custody, continuing his recreation on the beach.
He Had Many Enemies
The deceased Carlos Barrera Santillana, alias "E1 Negro," had many enemies,
mainly because he kept marihuana shipments which were not his, or ordered
them on credit and did not pay for them.
Furthermore, he r_ever paid individuals who worlced with him in shipping mari- _
huana, and owed some of them as mueh as $8,000 or $10,000. When he was
heavily in debt to them, he would fire them.
Several m~nths ago, Carlos Barrera was in3ured with seven punches in the chest
by an accomplice, precj.sely be~ause of a dispute over drugs. This incident
occurred at Guerrero and Third 5treets, and he was saved after undergoing
critical surgery at the San Vice~te Clinic, where he was treated by intern
Teodoro Torres Juarez and Dr Jose Angel Perez Vazquez. Yesterday, intern
Teodoro Torres went to the site where "E1 Negro" Barrera had been found dead,
and identified him by finding on his chest the scar from the operation that
they had gerformed on him when he was wounded with a knife.
The various agencies are investigating this double homicide. They have some _
clues but, thus far, do not know who the perpetrators are.
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TWO TRAFFICKERS HELD, HEROIN CONFISCATED
- Culiacan EL SOL DE SINALOA in Spanish 2 Aug 80 p 8
_ [Text] ~ao individuals who had been engaged in purchasing opium gum, convert-
ing it into heroin and subsequently selling it to various purchasers, both in
this country and abroad, were remanded to the agent of the Federal Public
Ministry by the Federal Judicial Police. -
- Mauricio Rivera Zavala, alias "Guicho," who is also k~own as Juan Manuel
Rivera Zamudio, and his accomplice, Isidro Lugo Garcia, are the two persons
who wer~ captured by the aforementioned police forces after the latter were
informed on the illegal activities in which they were involved.
According to statements made by the individuals in custody, they were engaged
in processing heroin since 1976, a skill wh~ch they learned easily from pro-
cessing the opium gum in a laboratory that they had at La Mina del Pilar, on
the Copalitos farm in the township of San Jose del Llano, in the municipality
of Badiraguato.
To ship the drugs, they used a blue, 1978 Ford pickup truck, with license
plates TX-0830, owned by Rivera Zavala, who resides at 523.Northwest Park,
in the Pa~k complex of the town of Los M,ochis.
They explained that, in order to carry out all the tran~actions for the pur-
chase and sale of opium gum converted into heroin, they used the residence
located at No 2064 Brigada Garcia de Juarez Street, in the Ignacio Allende
complex, which is where both the heroin purchasers and those who supplied
~ them with opium gum came.
Upon being arrested, both indiv3duals turned over two packages containing
dark brown substances with a penetrating odor, whi.ch were apparenCly her.oin,
weighing approximately 850 grams. Also sei�zed from them were three metal-
plated vats containing traces of the saine material found in the packages, a
metal plated bucket, a hydraulic jack, presses for pressing out the opium
gum, pieces of fabric for straining and pressing out the same substance and
a package containing what was apparently sal ammoniac.
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MEXICO
MARIHUANA, POPPY PLANTATION OWNERS ARRESTED
Culiacan EL SOL DE SINALOA in Spanish 30 Jul 80 p 8
[Text] Five individuals captured by Federal Judicial Police forces were plac-
. ed at the ~isposal of the agent of the Federal Public Ministry in Mazatlan,
so that the pertinent preliminary investigation could be completed and they
could be arraigned for the crime of drug trafficking.
The information provided to EL SOL DE SINALOA by the coordinator of Zone 006
of the permanent campaign against drug trafficking, Hector Aviles Castillo,
was to the effect that, on 25 July, Federal Judicial Police forces, backed
by members of the M~exican Army from the Eighth Military Zone, traveled by
helicopter to San Francisco del Caiman, in the municipality of Guagicon, in
the neighboring state of Nayarit, to continue the investigation of individu-
als engaged in planting, harvesting and distributing dru~s.
This all resulted from the arrests of David Mancinas Sarabia, Roberto Gonza-
, lez Escobar, Rafael Gallardo Aguirre and Federico Corral Vega, who confessed
that some of their accomplices were in Nayarit, tending three marihuana plan-
tations; whereupon the agents and soldiers were ordered to go and capture
- them.
The joint action made possible the arrest of the brothers Mario, Lino and
Valentin.Me~ia Juarez, together with Flavio Mancinas Corrales and Silvano
Mancinas Sarabia. Also confiscated from them were nine rifles of various
calibers which were in their possession. They themselves led the authori-
ties to Arroyo de la Guacamaya= also in Nayarit, where they had the three
plantations, one over an expanse of 80 square meters, and two covering 40
square meters.
The nine rifles seized by the judicial police consisted of a 12 caliber,
1897 model Winchester; a 30-30 caliber, 1885 model Zabach Pressure Stecky; _
a 7 millimeter 306635 Termy demolition; a 12 caliber shotgun type; a 22
� caliber automatic short-long; a 22 caliber 735 model Mustang; and three
others which were 22 caliber, without a series or make. Also confiscated
from them were three bottles containing poppy seeds, weighing about 2 kilo-
� gxams and 711 grams which, according to Aviles Castillo, have been submitted
as evidence against them.
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I
BRIEFS
COCAINE, HEROIN TRAFFICKERS c:AUGHT--Tijuana, B.C., 25 Jul --The Federal Judi-
cial Police in Tijuana, Baja Califoxnia, dealt a heavy blow upon arresting
_ the Nicaraguan, Claudia Gabanette Rico, aged 27, in that border town, as we~l _
as the Sinaloa residents Candelario Paez Medina, aged 64, and Amancio Pae:: ~
Villa, aged 22, who are natives of E1 Salate de Los Ibarra,'associated with
the central township. The report filed by the police entity indicates that
1 kilogram and 30 grams of cocaine were seized from the aforementioned woman,
who intended to take *he drug into the neighboring country to the north, but
was intercepted Lefore attaining her goal. Claudia's statements revealed
that she contacted a friend in Miami, Florida, by telephone, and the pair !
later traveled via Mexico to Colombia, where the friend made the deal. Three
days later, they returned to the Mexican capital and, subsequently, she flew
to Tijuana. In that town, she was waiting for the connection to deliver the
drug to Los Angeles, California, and had managed to evade the federal police
vigilance. But she was arrested there by ~udicial agents under orders from
Comdr Clemente Moreno, who made a careful inspection inside the Hotel E1 Cid, ~
where Claudia was staying. As for the Sinaloans, it was learned that 6 ounces
of heroin had been seized from them in their residence located on the Tijuana-
Tecate highway, and they claimed that the drug was from Sinaloa. All those
arrested were placed at the disposal of the agent of the Federal Public Min-
istry for crimes involving drug possession and whatever others may result
during the course of the investigation. [Text] [Culiacan EL SOL DE SINALOA
in Spanish 26 Jul 80 p 8] 2.909
TRAFFICKER RELE?,SED POSTHUMOUSLY--Through an irony of fate and the mean
tricks that it often plays, yesterday the Unified Court located in Torreon,
Coahuila, ordered the raleas~ of Beto Rodriguez. This would have been all �
well and good except for the fact that he died about 10 days ago in a 3ail
in Guadala,jara, Jalisco, where he was incarcerated with Gustavo Campos. They
were awaiting trial as a result of 8 ounces of pure cocaine seized from them
by Judicial Police forces. Beto Rodriguez, as he was called in the under-
world, and the only name by which he is known commonly, was awaiting another
trial, one of many for committing crim~s against health. The order for his
release arrived too late; however there is every indication that he would
have remained in prison for many years. The drug czar in the northern parti
of the republic has paid his deht to mother earth. Beto Rodriguez was jailed
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for a crime against health in the degree of exporting toxic pills. This hap-
pened in September 1977, when he was charged with being the owner of 70,000
toxic pills which United States narcotics agents in Del Rio, Texas, found in
the possession of three individuals whom he had sent to the United States
to distr'~bute them. The three men are Arlando Ur:.el, Jesus Alejandro Pena
and Jes,us Perez. Upon bei:ig arrested in Del Rio, Texas, they claime3 that
the iU,000 toxic pills had been purchased in the capital of the republic to
be distributed in the United States, and that they were owned by Beto Rodri-
guez and another person named Francisco Flores. [Text] [Piedras Negras EL
DIARIO DE PIEDRAS NEGRAS in Spanish 22 Jul 80 Sec C p 3] 2909
TRAFFICKER POSING AS INFORMER--Complying with a warrant for arrest issued
by the third district judge, Federal Judicial ?olice agents captured Raul
Santander, ~�;ho has been charged as presumably.guilty of committing a crime -
against health in ttie degrees of heroin possession,.purehase and storage for
trafficking purposes. In an attempt to evade court action, Santander stated
yesterday morning, when he appeared before the judge who summoned him, that
he actuaily attempted to purchase heroin in order to help in an investiga-
tion being conducted by a judicial agent in Reynosa,,for whom he worked as
a"stool pigeon." The records in.the case for trial 236-977 indicate that,
at dawn on 5 October 1977, federal agents captured Raul Villarreal Fernandez, =
: who had 1 kilogram of heroin in his possessions at the Embajadores farm in
the municipality of Miguel.Aleman. During the questioning to which he was
subjected, Villarreal stated that.the drug had been left with him by an indi-
vidual from Nayarit, so that he might find a purchaser, and that Raul Santan-
der was among his potential."customers." [Text] [Nuevo Laredo EL MANANA in
� Spanish 24 Jul 80 Sec B p 5] 2909
HEROIN SEIZED IN REYNOSA--Heroin valued at over 150,000 pesos was seized from
two presumed drug traffickers i~ Reynosa, Tamaulipas, accordiag to a report
issued yesterday by the agency of the Federal Public Mir~istry, which is con-
ducting an investigation of another shipment of drugs confi$cated from two
individuals here. With regard to the blow dealt by the Federal Judicial Po-
lice in Reyno3a, it was announced that.Ernesto Garcia and Jose Antonio Nuncio
Flores were under arrest, having been intercepted by the agents while driving
a 1969 Plymouth car with border license plates ZTH-217. Receptacles contain-
ing appro3dmately 48 grams of brown heroin were found in t;~eir possession.
- Borh men are being questioned by the Federal Judicial Police concerning the
origin of the drug, and thE idet~tity of the potential.customers to whom they
intended to sell it. It was also announced that the Federal Public Ministry
- agency will issue a full report *_oday on the seizure of a moderate amount of
"powder," apparently heroin, that was seized from several persons. No fur-
ther information was provided by the fedetal authorities, "so as not to inter-
- fere with the investigation, because more arrests are anticipated." [Text]
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- DRUG LABORATORY IN SINALOA--Mexico City--Today, federal agents discovered a
clandestine laboratory, located in Culiacan, Sinaloa, where hard drugs such
as cocaine, heroin and others were being manufactured. The owners of the
premises, Roque Hernandez Valenzuela and Antonio Pina Garcia, were arrested.
The police seized from them 1 kilogram of pure heroin, vats, wash basins,
beakers and other implements found on the site, which is located on the
old Pericos TrustPeship in the municipality of Culiacan. There, the fede-
ral ager~ts obtained the clue to the whereabouts of a drug trafficking en-
campment in the locality of "E1 Triste," in the municipality of Otaeza,
Durango, but, when they reached the site the drug distributors had already
fled. Also, on the No 1 train from Guadalajara, Jalisco, the federal police
discovered a shipment of 3 kilograms and 300 grams of heroin, and 1 kilogram
of raw opium, in Nogales, Sonora. They were unable to find out who the re-
cipient was, and the name of the shipper was false, as was the address that -
was given. [Text~ [Piedras Negras EL DIARIO DE PIED&AS NEGRAS in Spanish
15 Jul 80 p lJ 2909
ARMY INTENSIFIES OPERATION CONDOR--The Mexican Army, acting through the Ninth
Military Z~ne, has again intensified the activities of Operations Condor and
~anador (cannabis-poppy), and over 50 percent of the forces of that entity
are disseminated in the Western Sieraa Madre, engaged in efforts to destroy
plantations. Upon making the foregoing announcement, the commander of the
Ninth Military Zone, Gen Javier Vazquez Felix, explained that the interven- '
tion of the Mexican Army forces is a result of the fact that poppy and mari-
' huana plantations are being discovered again, as well as large expanses of
land prepared for new crops. The commander of the Ninth Military Zone also
disclosed that the activities being carried out i:~clude the round-up of
weapons, resulting ~n the seizure of a large number of long-barreled guns
and high-powered ~.ist.ols; and he described these weapons a~ being of excel-
lent quality. He also noted that a considerable number of marihuana planta-
tions in particular have been destroyed manually by the military~ who are
touring the steep mountains which comprise the Sinaloa sierra. According to
Gen Vazquez Felix, there have been many arrests of indi.viduals proven to have
been the ones engaged in the planting or narvesting, and many mobile units,
both air and land types, have been confiscated during the course of the work.
[Text] [Culiacan EL SOL DE SINALOA in Spanish 2~ug 80 p 4] 2909
HER(JIN TRAFFICKER JAILED--Yesterday, the third district judge decided on the
legal status of two arraigned individuals, one named Benito Rivera Esparza,
who was aecused of violating the federal law on firearms and explosives, and
the other, named Raul Santander, for heroin possession. Both were declared
officially imprisoned as persons presumed guilty of the charges brought against
them by the agent of the Federal Public Ministry. Benito Rivera was arrested
on 19 July, in a 1978 Thunderbird car, when he attempted to evade the customs
guards and bring a shipment of arms into the country, consisting of two 357.
caliber revolvers, a 9 millimeter caliber automatic pistol, and two rifles,
one a 22 and the other a 30-~6 caliber. As for Raul Santander, it was report-
ed that there was suff~_cient evidence to declare him officially imprisoned
for heroin possession. ~he aforementioned individual was captured a few days
ago by the Federal Judicial Police, because there was a warrant for his ar-
rest issued by the third district judge, in connection with trial 236-9%7.
_ [Text] [Nuevo Laredo EL MANANA in Spanish 26 Jul 80 Sec B p 5] 2909
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SRA OFFICIAL A TRAFFICKER--Mexico City, 23 Jul (ANPE)--The drsg trafficker
Yolanda Verduzco, who was arrested last week in Aspen, Colorado, with a kilo-
gram of pure cocaine, proved to be a medical coordinator for agrarian reform,
according to an announcement made today by the Office of the Attorney General
of the Republic. Expanding upon the matter, the spokesman for the Attorney
Ge-~era1's Office explained that the credentials attesting.to the fact that
dermatologist Verduzco is an official of the SRA ~Secretariat of Agrarian Re-
form] are duly signed and authorized by officials of that departm.ent. More-
over, it was reported that the drug trafficker had been released today by
the Am~erican authorities when her lawyer paid bail amounting to $250,000, _
which had been set, after the jurist from the neighboring country to the
north visited Alberto Sicilia Falcon in the eastern prison. Finally, the
Attorney General's 0�fice announced that it is investigating public e~loyees
' and business owners whom the drug trafficker visited. [Text] [Piedras Negras
EL DIARIO DE PIEDRAS NEGRAS in Spanish 24 Jul 80 p 1] 2909
MARIHUANA GROWERS RELEASED--Mexico City, 26 Jul (EXCELSIOR)--Over 3,500 farm-
ers from different parts of the country who had been ~ailed for growing drugs
have been released, when it was proven they they did so.out of ignorance and
because of the great poverty in which they were living. Raul Jimenez 0'Farrill,
general director of proceedings and consultation engaged in penal action for
the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic, made the foregoing state-
mnt, and explained that all the penal proceedings brought against those farm-
ers have been deemed terminated, upon their acquittal. He added that the in-
, vestigations.which were conducted proved that the accused had been deceived
by clever .cug traffickers, who offered them various amounts of money for
growing drugs, mainly marihuana. Jimenez 0'Farrill remarked that the office
which he head~ is still investigating hundreds of records of charges against
_ farmers, noting that it is possible that many more will go free if they pro-
mise not to grow drugs again. He said that, if any of the acquitted farmers
resume growing drugs, the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic will
punish them to the full extent of the law, taking into account the first
action against them as well. He gave a reminder that these rulings of the
Attorney General's Office are due to the conviction that the farmer plants
marihuana and other drugs prompted by the poverty and ignorance in which he
lives, and which are used to advantage by the big rings of drug traffickers. _
In conclusion, he said that several farmers' associations have expressed
satisfaction with the way in which the Attorney General'~ Office is helping
the farmers, and have promised to cooperate by training them to grow basic
foods, and not drugs. [Text] [Nuevo Laredo EL MANANA in Spanish 27 Jul 80
Sec A p 6] 2909
NLY ANTIDRUG CAMPAIGN RESULTS--"Before the rainy season started in the state,
we made a careful tour of the entire sector of Zone 006 of the permanent cam-
paign against drug trafficking, so as to prevent the planting of poppies and
marihuana in the region; and we atained positive results, based on the wea-
ther conditions that prevail in Sinaloa." 'I'his statement was made to F,L SOL
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DE SINALOA by the coordinator of that department of the Office of the Attorney
General of the Republic, Hector Aviles Castillo, who announced that, in the
course of last month's activities, a complete laboratory for processing drugs
had been discovered and destroyed. He added that fumigation was applied to
17 marihuana plantations over an area of 8,400 square meters, and that eight
poppy plantations and 61 of the harmful grass were destroyed manually, over
a total area.of 2,656 square meters in the case of the former, and 10,061
square meters in the case of the latter. In the category of arrests, accord-
ing to the Zone 006 coordinator, 63 persons were found guilty of various fede-
ral crimes, and a total of 4,628 kilograms of marihuana, 500 grams of poppy
seed and 2,711 kilograms of apium poppy seed, as well as 850 grams of heroin
were seized from them. Eleven rifles and three pistols with 48 useful car- -
tridges were confiscated, all of which was submitted,. at the proper time, as
evidence against those in custody, to be entered in the records and compila-
ti~ns of preliminary investigations, as the federal official noted. [Text]
[Culiacan EL SOL DE SINALOA in Spanish 2 Aug 80 pp 1, 7] 2909
MARIHUANA TRAFFICKERS DENY CHARGES--Childish and ridiculous.statements were
made to the third district judge by the presumed drug traffickers Miguel Angel
R,~driguez, Jesus Ismael Saldivar Garcia and Adelaido Lomas Rodriguez, who cy-
nically denied having any connection with the drug traffic, and specifically
claimed to be dissociated from the shipment of marihuana which was seized
on 15 July by Federal Judicial Police agents. The three men made statements
which had been prearranged in advance by their defense attorney, Juan Miguel
Perez Barquierena, who has, inexplicably, taken over the advising of all the
federal offenders remanded to the district courts; because, in the offices
of the Federal Public Ministry agency and possibly those of the Federal Judi-
cial Police, he has been offered all kinds of facilities for.making contact
with the presumed criminals. An absurd story was given by Miguel Angel Rodri-
guez, who claimed to have been hired by an individual named Francisco Lopez
to transport, in a stake-body truck, a shipment of alfalfa from Matehuala,
San Luis Potosi, unawarc~ that it was really a half ton of marihuana. As for
Jesus Ismael Saldivar Garcia and Adelaido Lomas Rpdriguez, they both made
_ the same claim that they were dissociated from the aforementianed drug trans-
action, while at the same time putting on the pantomime that they had been
tortu~ ~ by their captors. Despite the despicable maneuvers of their def~nd-
er, the three were declared officially imprisoned as persons presumed guilty
of committing a crime against health in its various degrees. [Text] [Nuevo
Laredo EL MANANA in Spanish 22 Jul 80 Sec B p 5] 2909
MARIHUANA GROWERS ARRESTED--Mexico City, 22 Jul (NOTIMEX)--This morning,
Federal Judicial Police forces arrested a youiig couple who had been engaged
for some time in growing and selling marihuana in Tepic, Nayarit. The agents _
captured Ismael Velazquez Flores and Ma.ria Esther Rodriguez in the settle-
ment c~ Rosa M~rada, Nayarit, when the former confronted the federal agents
with a 38-caliber pistol upon being caught as he was harvesting marihuana on
a plantation which he had sown. [Text] [Piedras Negras EL DIARIO DE PIEDRAS
NEGRAS in Spanish 23 Jul 80 Sec A p 3] 2909
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IRAN
BRIEFS
QUANTITIES OF OPIUM SEIZED--According to a report from our correspondent
in Mashhad, the personnel of Hoseynabad Gendarmerie [words indistinct] of
Birjand Ge.ndarmerie in a place called Dahaneh-e Shah Kuh discovered 168 kg
, of opium in the possession of a person named (Jan Mohammad Janizadeh),
resident of Tabas. Also the Central News Unit quotes the Operations Unit
of the Guards Corps in Neyshabur as reporting: 197 sticks of opium were
found in the possession of a person (Kheybari), resident of the village of
(Zirbad) in the suburbs of Neyshabur. Also 2 kg of opium were found in -
the possession of another person called (Mohammad 'Ali Niyazi). The Pars
News Agency quotes the Special Antinarcotics Strike Group, situated in the
Imam's Central Co~ittee HQ in Mashhad, as reporting: with the efforts of
the (?guards) of this group, and with the continuous struggles of the
personnel of the Shushk Gendarmerie Post, in Birjand, after a clash with
three Afghan and Iranian smugglers, 164 kg of opium were discovered in the -
possession of the smugglers. In this clash one of the smugglers, named
(Mohammad Baluch), was arrested and the other two fled to Afghan territory
with 280 kg of opium. This report, also says that 1 kg of heroin was _
found in the possession of a retired officer ('Ali Ganji), son of Khalil,
in Ku-Ye Tollab in N.ashhad. [Text] [LD211935 Tehran Domestic Service in
Persian 1630 GMT 21 Aug 80]
OPIUM SEIZED IN KARAJ--According to a Pars News Agency report, Hojjat
ol-Esla;n Sheykh Sadeq Khalkhali, president of the Special Islamic Court and
supervisor of the anti-narcotics campaign, announced today that anti-narcotics
squad officers stationed in Karaj found 46 sacks of opium weighing S00 kilo-
grams in an unlicensed car standing inside the garden of a house in Karaj ~
belonging to a person named Hasan Shahriari, alias Hasan Baba'i. He was
arrested for carrying the opium. [Text] [LU071848 Tehran Domestic Service
in Persian 1630 GMT 7 Aug 80]
KARAJ, DEZFUL, HAMADAN EXECLTIONS--By verdict of the Special Islamic Revolu-
tion Court of Karaj, three notorious smugglers of narcotics were found
guilty of so~~~ing corruption on earth and fighting against God and we.re
sentenced to death. The verdict was carried out today at dawn. The names
- of those executed are as follows: (Mirza Mohammad Qasemi), son of (Had~ -
Qorban); (Y.oseyn Habilisn), son of (Mohsen); and (Safar Mokhlespur), known
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as (Safar Ghorbati). By verdict of the Islamic Revolution Court of Dezful,
(Hedayatollah Eslampur), an agent involved in the massacre of Black Wednesday
in Dezful on 17 January 1979 and the murder of Pasandideh, the martyr, was
executed this morning at dawn by firing squads. By the verdict of the
Islamic Revolution Court of Hamadan, (Fereshteh Nargesi), was tried on _
charges of sowing corruption and selling narcotics in [word indistinct]
and was found guilty of sowing corruption on earth and was sentenced to
death. The verdict was carri~d out today at dawn. [Text] [LD071202
Tehran Domestic Service in Persian 0930 GMT 7 Aug 80]
DEATH SENTENCES TO DRUG DEALERS--At Khorramabad's Special Court investigating
narcotics, six persons were found guilty of having perpetrated corruption
on earth and waging war ag~inst God by purchasing and selling narcotics,
pushing heroin and spreading prostitution. They were sentenced to death. -
[Text] [LD220328 Tehran Domestic Service in Persian 0230 GMT 22 Aug 80]
SMUGGLER SENTENCED TO DEATH--According to our reporter in Gonbad, the
- headquarters of the Antidrug Campaign in Gonbad today announced that by the
verdict of Hojjat ol-Islam Khall~hali, the supervisor of the headquarters
of the Antidrug Campaign, one of the drug smugglers in the Gonbad region
by the name of Abdolrahim Baba'i, alias Abdi Molla, was sentenced to death
and the sentence was carried out this morning at dawn. [TextJ [LD13193~
Tehran Domestic Service in Persian 1630 GMT 13 Aug 80J
NARCOTICS TRAFFICKERS EXECUTED--According to a report from our correspondent
from Semnan, seven smugglers from Sabzevar who have long records in the
distribution and production of narcotics and the corruption of young people
were arrested by Semnan anti-narcotics officials, tried in Qasr prison and -
sentenced to execution. The verdicts of the court were carried out at dawn
today in Sabzevar. The names of those execuied are as follows: Gorgani _
Reza'i, son of Gholam-Reza, 'Ali Nowruzi, son of Morad 'Ali, Haj Sadeq,
Haj Moslem and Haj 'Ali-Reza Khalqani, sons of Mohammad Ebrahim, Seyyed
Mohammad 'Avam Kord, son of ~eyyed (Reyzollah), and Mohammad-Reza (Zarandil,
son of Fotuh. [Text] [LT211022 Tehran Domestic Service in Persian 0930
GMT 21 Aug 80]
KHALKHALI IN SHIRAZ--According to PARS NEWS AGENCY, Hojjat ol-Eslam Shaykh `
Sadeq Khalkhali, director of the antinarcctics campaign, arrived in Shir.az -
this morninQ to continue his fight against smuggling and the gangs of smug-
gJ.ers. After arriv ing in Shiraz, Khalkhali immediately attended a meeting
of the city's Islamic Revolution Guards and ordered all the roads leading to
Shiraz to be closed in order to wage a decisive and merciless campaign against
the smugglers. Khalkhali also gave the necessary orders to the gendamerie,
police and guards corps officers as well as the special antinarcotics squad.
[Text] [LD031i26 Tehran Domestic Service in Persian 0930 GMT 3 Jul 80]
TRAFFICKERS ARRESTED--During the past 48 hours, five drug distributors have
been arrested by the narcotics squad and handed over to competent authorities.
During the same period, 649 grams of narcotics, 1 hunting rifle, 522 car-
tridges and bullets and 4 drug-related items have been f ound. [Shiraz
Domestic Service in Persian 1400 GMT 8 Jul 80 GF]
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SMUGGLERS SENTENCED--According to PARS NEWS AGENCY, Hojjat ol-Eslam Shaykh
Sadeq Kh~lkhali, the supervisor of the fight against narcotics contraband,
who had gone to Mashhad to inspect the conditions of tne offenders of the
Islamic Revolution Courts of Khorasan, in the presence of the Islamic Revolu-
tion public prosecutor of Mashhad and other off icials of the Islamic Rebolu-
tior public prosecutor's office and courts of that city, after 16 hours of
hez.rings passed death sentences on 13 of the offenders who had been involved
in production and distribution of narcotics and running centers of corruption
and prostitution. The sentences were carried out early this morning.
[Excerpt] [LD271`~02 Tehran Domestic Service in Persian 1630 GMT 27 Jul 80J ~
ARSENJAN CITIZEN COMMENDID--A citizen has received a citation from revolution
guards in Arsenjan fo~r turning in 2 kg of opium and opium juice to their
headquarters. [GF?41838 Shiraz Domestic Service in Persian 1400 GMT _
24 Aug 80 GFJ
NARCOTICS COIVFISCATED--The Shiraz drug squad has discovered b,930 grams of
narcotics, 79 hallucinogens and 33 drug related items. Sihty-two persons
have been arrested in connection with the drugs. [Shiraz Domestic Service
in Persian 1400 GMT 24 Aug 80 GF]
DRUG TRAFFICKERS ARRESTED--The special court for the f ight against narcotics
issued a statement announcing the execution of seven notorious smugglers and
corrupt persons who have had long records in trafficking drugs and corrupting
the youth. They were: Behruz Rusta, from Tabriz; MEhdi Tahmasebi Siahpushi,
from Tehran; Hoseyn Asadi, from Khunsar; Zaman (?Oobadian), from Khunsar;
Ebrahim Shahi, from Khunsar; 'Omar Namat, from Urumiyeh; and Gholam Reza
Zulfaqari, from Damghan. The wife of former General Badreh'i, Fatemeh
Nezhadparvar, was acquitted. [Excerpts] [LD200718 Tehran Domestic Service
in Persian 0630 GMT 20 Aug 80]
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KENYA
~ AWARENESS PROGRAM~ 'NEIDID TO IDUCATE KENYAHS ON DRUG ABOSE'
~airobi DAII.Y NATION in English 9 Aug 80 p 6
[Text]
- PRF.,SIDENT Moi Iast week directed chiefs, DOs,
DCa and PCs to enaure that all bhang is uprooted -
in their areas. Before that, the President had -
appesIed to headmaster~ to enforce discipline in
schools, thereby making sure that secondary s.:hool
students do not smoke bhang. - _
It may come as news to many that Kenya has in
the past developed an irrternational trade in bhang.
And even gome VI:'s have been involved in the
trade. There is eviden�e to show that international
surveillance hae cut down the. "open" export - -
several Kenyans have been arrested in +.he UK, -
Germany and other European countries in t.he la9t~ _
- two years. The trada~rs seem now to have started
pushing the drug to.the young inside the country..
- ~ Such people muat be apprehended st. all cost.. . � -
In 1977, 43 young people under 18 were
prosecuted for bhang offences. 'Fhe figure rose to 78
in 1978 and the police claim the .figure of cases
where rninors are prosecuted have been rising very _
rspidly. They have not actually given the fiRures
. for the leteryears. However, a~reporter was told by -
headmasters of Naimbi schools that there ~re
usually many'such cases in their schools. They,
. however, did not wat:~ to give fgures either because
they argued that parenta will be embarras.ged and
= it may have a bad effect nn the schools.-
'I'he lacir of pnblicly ~vailable data on'`bhang
cases in echools and elsewhere does not help irrthe
campaign against drug abuae by youth and others.
We have mentioned the reluctance of the police
and headmasters to even given the numbers of
cases tc? highli~ht the pmblem~. They feel t hat re-
lea.~in~ the ~Kures would dama~e the reputation of'
thc ind-,'viduals and institut ions. -
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We are of the opinion that one of the best ways tn
check the spread. of dnrg' aruse is to expose those
involved. Schools and police should release t.he
n~ames of the traders in the illegal drug business as.
well as those charged with using them. Publicity
will act. as- a social control. It is also possible that
- publicising users ma~ lead to t.heir. indentifyin~ the
- main sellers of the drug. ~
There are those who feel that bhang abuse is con-
fined to the low-income groups; This is a fallacy
since a significant. number of h~gh-income people
- local and foreign - are very involved in the use _
of the dn2g.
Some people even argue that in some pc~h areas of
Nairobi, bhang is more easily availeb~e than in the
'poorer areas. The reoorter who talked to headmasters
wes toid that bhan~ smokin~ was more prevalent
among the children of the rich than the poor. After all,
they can afford it. This raises an interesting problem~of -
control since it mey well be that the police ouKht to con-
~centrate on the posh aress since they may be the main�
distribution points.
Bhang is not t~~ only dru~ being abused. A signilicant
number of Kenyr~s has started teking pep pill~ and
sleepin~ tahlets, arnong ~~thers, for gettin~ "hi~h". The
rich are also "sniifin~" or "shooting" heroin. It seem~ as
i` getting a kick out of aJcohol is not enough. A~ain, a _
significant number of school youth are "sniffinR" {>etrc~l
turpentine and other mixtures. _
We as a society have not evolved institution~ and~
services to handle those in society whu have prohlems
which lead them to 6nd an escape in dru~. We du nc~t
even take alcoholism as a serious form of.druR abuse.
It therefore seems to us that the me~ical and social
institutions o.ught collectively to start awareneGs
'programmes in wchix~l~, factories and other E~uhlic institu-
tions to educate Kenyans on the problems ot dru~ ahv~e.
Within this, we will all have to understand that, with ihe
dominent style of life where moet male hcads oC ~
hou�eholda go to "slc~h" ~hemselves with alcohol after
work, increasingly they are being joined by their
partners; and childrecronly see them drunk late at niKht.
'I'hus, it will not be convincing to tell the youn~t to
avoid drug abuse in its various~forms. What is nece~.gary -
is a systematic effo~ by all W begin to reduce the abuses
of alcohol, bhang and other assorted drugs which the . ~
edults are teaching the youth by example. Otherg who l
have written about thia see the mejor problem of dru~ _
abuse as centred among the poorer members of our
society. There is reason to doubt this analysis. It seems
to us that t~e problem is tied ug~ avith the more affluent.
They cannot. only afford the duRs, bu[ they mix more
wiih foreigner's who sie "in" the "drug culture" and
imitate them. Also, as has been suggested by sociologists,
it is the newly-rich who ignore family ties and traditional
social controls. As the administration helps in
eradicating the "weed" v~e ought to think of way~ of
ensuring that those caught up in druR abuse are
' rehabilitated since they a~e truly s~ck.
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FRANCE
FAR EAST HEROIN TRAFFICKERS ARRESTED
Paris LE FIGARO in French 17 Jun 80 p 12
[Article by Jean PaillardinJ
[TextJ The setting was the back room of a cafe on Saint-Jacques street
at the end of last week. The action was very fast.
'II~ A Frenchman carrying an attache case went into the cafe and headed toward
~
~ an oriental-looking customer who had been waiting for a short time. Without
saying a word, the latter opened a package. The visitor leaned over and
took a taste and suddenly, five, six men surrour.ded hi.m--handcuffs,
a police car: the package contained a kilogram of "brown sugar," pure heroin.
- The story began a month and a half earlier in a cabaret on Saint-Denis street.
The police had learned through an informer that the bartender, 22-year-old
Francis Arnoult, was acting as a go-between for drug traffickers. Vice
squad inspectors watched and followed him, and also tailed another individual
who often came to see him.
Chapter Two: On Friday, Francis Arnoult's "friend" went into a hotel on
Saint-Jacques street with F 170,000 in well-handled bills in his attache
case. A Chinese man, a British citizen from Hong Kong, was waiting for
him in his room; he carefully examined the bills and then made a telephone
call.
- Five minutes later, the man went ~.nto the back room of the cafe across the
street with his little suitcase. In turn, he zxamined the "merchandise"
wrapped in newspaper. They were in the act of exchanging F 170,000 for
a kilogram of heroin when the police, who had followed them, caught them _
red-handed.
The heroin pusher, 38-year-old Kum Tuck Kheil, had ta be hospitalized the
next day. On heroin himself, he was "out of it." At the residence of one
of his accomplices, 20-year-olu Lam Kowok Tcheing, also from Hong Kong,
- another kilogram of heroin was discovered. A third associate, also from
Hong Kong, was arrested.
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All three were "semi-wholesalers" who resold the "brown sugar" coming directly
from Thailand at the rate of F 170,000 per kilogram. At various stages
~ of the reselling process, the 1,000 grams of 95-percent pure heroin yielded
10,000, then 20,000 doses. The last "dealer" also added lactose to the
four or five doses which he purchased and the initial kilogram ultimately _
yielded 30,000 "shoots," which are sold for F 100 each. Total: F 3 million.
On learning that this heroin is purchased for F 40 a kilogram in Thailand,
it is understandable why the Asian network is so coveted.
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FRANCE
1
BRIEFS
MARIHUANA SEIZED--Late Tuesday night, Orly customs officials confiscated
43 kilograms of cannabis worth F 500,000, which a Cameroonian diplomat was _
carrying in two suitcases. Joseph Mbiandjeu, 48-year-old f irst secretary
at the Cameroonian Embassy in Kinshasa and arriving from Douala via Lisbon,
stated that he was unaware of the contents of the two bags. According to
him, a friend had asked him to deliver the two suitcases to a Parisian contact.
The African diplomat was turned over to narcotics squad inspecCors. [Text]
[Paris LE FIGARO in French 25 Jun 80 p 12] 11915
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SPAIN
COCAINE TRAFFICKER USES 'UNUSUAL' TRANSPORT I'IETHOD
Madrid ABC in Spanish 25 Mar 80 p 51
[Text] Reports have appeared in the press for some time
now concerning arrests of individuals, both by the police
and Civil Guard, as presumed traffickers or consumers
of cocaine, a dru~ which unfortunately has a potential
market in our country. The latest of these arrests, that
_ of a"courier," was made on Saturday at Barajas airport. -
Apprehended was Francisco Clodomiro Lopez Mora, a 45-
- year-old Colombian citizen and tradesman, from whom 220
grams of the dangerous suhstance were confiscated; the
drug was�hidden in 11 spherical plastic capsules, two
under his clothes and the reat in his intestine.
The arrest took place about midnight when Francisco Clodomiro, who had ~ust
arrived in Madrid on Avianca flfght 072 from Bogota, appeared visibly nervous
when goin~ through customs, which made customs off icials suspicious. As a
result, and on the suspicion that he could be carrying drugs, he was asked
to step into an office where he was thoroughly searched. The customs
official`s professional experience or intuition indeed produced results.
Francis~o Clodomiro was transportiag two plastic capsules 2.5 centimeters
in diameter, each containing 20 grams of cocaine. The capaules were bound
to his lower abdomen with adhesive tape and hidden under his shorts. The
paesenger was arrested and interrogated. In the meantime, members of the
Civil Guard Headquartera Antidrug Group took charge of the matter to deter-
mine its scope. _
Transferred to Red Cross _
" After several hours h~d passed and since Francisco was becoming ill, it was
suspected that he might be hiding more cocaine capsules in his intestine _
and had been unable to rid himaelf of them. He was therefore transferred
to the Central Red Cross Hospital, where he underwent an X-ray examination.
The X-rays taken could not hav~ been more revealing: they showed some
f oreign bodies in his intestine. He was therefore transferred to the sur-
gical unit, where he was given an enetaa. Shortly thereafter, Francisco -
Clodomiro discharged nine capsules of equal diameter containing 180 grams of
cocaine. He confessed that the capsules had been introduced into his rectum
in Colombia, after first being anesthetized.
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The drug--valued at 10,000 pesetas a gram--was to be delivered to a young -
Colombian residing in Spain, Ricardo Prado Burbano, a 22-year-old herdsman
by occupation, who was also arrested. The latter intended to sell the drug
for 5,000 pese;:as a gram.
~ao Deaths
As far as is known, this is the first time that a"courier" has brought
cocaine into our country in this way, although it is apparently common among
- South American traff ickers transporting the drug to the United States. In
this regard, it should be noted that with some of these "couriers" therE
have been cases of the cocaine capsules breaking open when attacked by
pancreatic acids. Other traffickers are also using capsules at the present -
time~, but they are made of a special type of plastic which is not vulnerable
to such bodil�~ acids.
According to information obtained by an ABC staff inember from a Red Cross
Drug Detoxif ication Unit spokesman, who asked us to keep his name confidsntial, _
traffickers anesthetize "couriers" and then relax the sphincter with tran-
quilizers to introduce the capsules into the rectum. In the hypothetical _
case that one of the capsules should break open, the cocaine which it con-
- tains=-in the particular case discussed here, about 20 grams--would quickly
be absorbed into the mucous membrane, resulting in the rapid death of the
"courier" due to acute poisoning.
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. SPAIN
NARCOTICS SQUAD ARRESTS HASHISH TRAFFICKER
Madrid ABC in Spanish 25 Ma.r 80 p 51
[Text] Seville, 24 Mar (EFE)--An American student was
arrested by Seville police after being unable to digest
a drug. The strange story began when the Narcotics
Squad received a call from the Garcia Morato Sanatorium's
emergency unit, informing it that there was a patient
there with some etrange symptoms, as though he had con- ~
sumed a certain amount of drugs and could not discharge
them from his body.
Squad members took custody of the "patient," who turned out to be Thomas
- Winn, an American suffering from drug "indigestion" by his own admission.
Thomas Winn appar.ently arrived in Spain last September to study. While in
Seville, he came into contact with an individual named Manuel--it is not
known whether more information or details have been provided--and together
they began to consider how eaey it would be to smuggle drugs protected in
prophylactics which they wouYd consume at the point of origin and later
diacharge when they had reached their destinati~n after slipping through
customs.
First Test
Before going ahead with the first operation, they decided to conduct a test
with prophylactics f illed with water and everything worked out as planned,
just as it did on an initial trip made in February.
In view of the success, the operation was repeated and on 12 March another
trip was made to Tetuan and the amount was tripled, this time using 150
grams of hashish oil divided into three prophylactics which were swallowed
immediately.
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Something Wrong ~
The American embarked on his return trip afterwards, but something went
wrong this time and after returning to Seville, time passed without his
managing to discharge the contraband, which had apparently not been digested.
He therefore went to the sanatorium's emergency unit, where he insisted that
he had swallowed some crystals. The doctors on duty must have noticed some-
thing and called the Narcotics Squad, who took the "patient" inLO custody
when he had already managed to discharge one of the contraceptives, which _
he got rid of on the spot.
He f inist'.ed telling the entire story and discharging the other two prophy-
lactics at Squad headquarters.
Editor's Note--According to a report phoned in to us by the Seville Narcotics
Squad, the hashish trafficker using a very original and unknown method, at
least until now, did indeed discharge the three prophylactics without
breaking any of them. What happened is that he was afraid of becoming a
victim of drug poisoning, believing that one of the prophylactics could
have broken open, since he had gone for more than 50 hours without discharging
them.
Apparently it took this American studen~, who was of course turned over for .
trial, 28 hours to discharge a contraceptive filled with water when he made
- the first test; subsequently, when he made the attempt with hashish oil,
but still swallowing only one prophylactic, he discharged it after 30 hours.
Then conf ident as a result, he chose to swallow three contraceptives
weighing a total of 115 grams. But as he noted that he had not discharged
anytning after 48 hours, fearing the worst he went to the Garcia Morato
Sanatorium where, after being given a laxative to get rid of the alleged
crystals, he discharged the f ir~t prophylactic intact and the other two
lacer at Narcotics Squad headquarters.
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