JPRS ID: 9743 WORLDWIDE REPORT NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS

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NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
CFOUO 22/81)
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19 May 1.9 81
WORLDWIDE REPORT
NARCOTICS AND DANGEROU~ DRUGS
(FOUO 22/81) M
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ASIA
AUSTRALIA
Secret Society Forcing ~tigrants To Grow Marihuana in Sottth
_ (THE COURIER-MP.IL, 7 Apr 81) 1
Major Ring Smuggling Heroin From Middle East Broken -
(T11F, COURIFR-MAIL, 6 Apr 81, THE SYDNEY MORNING
~ HERAI.D, 7 Apr 81) 3
We~kend Raid
Cottrt Details
Cannabis-Growing Sites Raided in Margaret River Area
(Norman Aisbett; THE WEST AUSTRALIAN, 2 Apr 81) 5
Papua New Gtiinea Stepping Up Fight on Drug Trafficking
(TNF ~-!FST AUSTRALIAN, 13 Apr 81) 7
Perth Addi~�t Admits 1980 Dealing in Heroin
(T11~ WEST AUSTRALIAN, 7 Apr 81) 8
Cairns Marit~uana Growers Threaten Sugar Cane Crop
(Jacky Archer; THE WF.EKEND At1STRALIAN, 28-29 rtar 817 9
Griffith Meeting Calls for Probe of Organized Drug Trade
(Tim Vaughan; THE SYDNEY MORNING HFRALD, 8 Apr 81) 10
Heroin Charges Broiight Against 3 Men, 4 Wamen
(THE SYP,NEY MCIRNING HF,RALi), 10 Apr 81) 11 -
i'wo Sentenced for Selli.ng Heroin They Smuggled In
(TNE WrST AIJSTRALIAN, 7 Apr S1) 13 -
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Briefs -
AT.~' Drug Policy 15
Waz ~n Cocaine 15
Annual Pru� Stati.stics 15
Ch~rges Against PolicP 15 _
Heroin From Penang . 16
Six in Heroin Arrest 16
PD?G Drug Hau 1 16
HONG K~~C
Sea Chase Nets Large Opium Haul From Freighter
(SOiITH CHI NA MORNTNG POST, 6, 1 Apr 81) 17
Record Seizure
Crewmen P_rrested
Defendants Char~ed
Increased Drug Smuggl=.ng From China Foreseen
~ (Olivxa Sin; SOi1TH CHINA MOR?IING POST, 16 Apr 81) 20
Briefs
Malaysian Arrested 21
Heroin Base Seizure 21
Airport Drug Haul 21
Pol icemen Charged 22
Hotel Drug Raid 22
Ten-Year Sentence 22
Drug Seller Jailed 22
PAKT ST11N
PrevenCive Drug Pro gram Discussed
~DAWr1, 1 May 81) 23 _
Briefs
Opium ~1200 GM) Seized 25
Mandrix Smu ggler Arrested 25
Charas (2C riaunds) Seized 25
Ztaenty Tolas Opium Seized 26
Charas Seiz ed in Karachi 26
CANADA
Briefs
LSD Seized in Raid 27
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LATIN AMERICA
BOLIVIA
Report on Anti-Drug Operations Released
~AFP, 8 A1ay 31) 28
Drug Traffickers Aiming To Destabilize Gov~inment
(Radio Illimani, 8 May 81) 3C
, New Law To Fight Prug Traffic Approved
~LATIN, 6 May 81) 32
Briefs
Drug Traffickers Killed 33 -
PERU
Briefs
Drug Traftickers Arrested 34
~ocaine Arrests 34
Cocaine Paste Seized 34
NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
IRAN
Briefs ~
Execution of Drug Dealers 35
Opium Seiziire 35
Marvdasht Opium Haul 35
Heroin, Opium Confiscation 35
I SRAP:L
Briefs
Ashqelon Hashish Seizure 36
liNITED ARAB F.*tIRATES
Suspect Ch:irged With Smuggling Hashish
- ('Abd al-Latif Zaki; AL-RAYAH, 24 Mar 81) 37
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
SWAZILAND
- Chief Justice Dissents on Dagga Ruling
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WEST EUR~PE
DENMARK -
Briefs
Toughest Drug Sentence 40
FINLAND
Briefs
Drugs Control Law 41
ICELAND
Fxpert Discu~ses Large Jump in Narcotics Cases
(MORGUNBLADID, 26 Mar 81) 42
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Police Official Says Drugs Among Youth Spreads Over Country
(Alf C. Andersen; AFTENPOSTFN, 25 Mar 81) 45
Oslo Police Pledge Tougher Enforcement Against Drug Runners
~ARBEIDERBLADET, 11 Mar 81) 48
Dri~gs Under~aorld Becoming More Violent
(AFTENPOSTEN, 1 Apr 81) 50
Official Reports Increase of Heroin Sales Around Schools
(Aslaug Risseberg; AFTENPOSTFN, 26 Mar 81) 52
Briefs
Heroin Seizures Increase 54
Drug Enforcement Effort 54
UNITED KZNGDOM
Briefs
Cocaine Seized 55
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AUSTRALIA
SECRET SOCIETY Fi)RCING rfIGRANTS TO GROW MARIHUANA IN SOUTH
Brisbane THE COUKIER-MAIL in English 7 Apr 81 p 2
[Text] Melbourne--Victorian police believe an Italian
secret society is using slave labor to grow marihuana
~ for an Australia-wide drug syndicate.
They believe market gardeners in the Murray and Goul-
. burn River irrigation belts may be forced to grow
marihuana on a"round robin" basis.
Police say Italian migrants are ordered to cultivate the marihuana by the lead-
ers of the southern Italian society known as L'Onorata Societa--"The Honorable
Society." ~
- The head of Victoria's Criminal Intelligence Bureau, Det. Supt. F red Silvester,
said yesterday t}~e society had infiltrated and corrupted "every s poke of the
wheel of criminal jus[ice."
Supt Silvester said: "The society is a very real danger to a civ ilised society
such as ours." He said it had strong influence in the legal prof ession, law
enforcement agencies and immigration authorities.
On the slave labor claims, one senior Victorian policeman said ye sterday, "Some
of them live in absolut~ squalor on the plantations. No one wou ld do it volun-
tarily." .
Police have compiled a secret dossier known as the "Z file" on the activities .
and personnel of the Calabrian society.
They began to compile the 2000-page file in 1964 after a spate of shotgun
murders and woundings involving the society at the Victoria marke ts.
"Name any drug spot in Australia and you will find the same names --the same
people--its all related," an undercover policeman said.
llr Alfred McCoy, the author of two books on drug trafficking in Australia and
South-east Asia and i'.s links with organised crime, yesterday agreed with police
allegations of forcea labor.
~ "It seems the g~iys at the top make a bundle but those at the bott om don't do
very well," he said.
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Detectives say the Honored Suciety originally was involved in extortion and
protection rackets, but has since moved into organised crime.
The Victorian Government asked a top [inited States mob investigator, Mr John
Cusack, to investigate the society after the Victorian market murders. -
Mr Cusack spent about 18 weeks in Australia and warned the Victorian Govern-
ment that the group eventually would branch out into drug growing and traf-
ficking.
Det Supt Silvester said there was little doubt the society was affiliated with
riafia-type bodies overseas.
"These people don't care about state or national boundaries," he said. Closed
societies such as these caere almost impossible to infiltrate.
"It will take years to get to the bottom of it," he said.
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AUSTRALIA
~
MAJOR RING SMUGGLING HEROIN FROM PIIDDLE EAST BROKEN _
Weekend Raid
Brisbane THE COURII:R-MAIL in English 6 Apr 81 p 1
['Text] Sydney.--Federal police are confident they
have uncovered a major drug smuggling ring using
heroin from the Midd:~e East.
On Saturday, they raided houses in the Sydney suburbs of Dulwich Hill and Syden- -
ham and seized heroin conservatively estimated to be worth $200,OOJ.
They arrested a taxi driver, 38, and his wife, 21, at the Dulwich Hill House,
and a cleaner 38, and his wife, 28, at Sydenham.
The raids follo~aed the arrival on Saturday of a man on a British Airways flight
from Abu Di:zbi, and a woman on a Quantas flight from Singapore.
Federal police have been concerned for some time about the illegal importation
~f heroin from the Middle East.
Detectives from a special drugs unit have been caorking for six weeks to crack
the drug ring, which they bel.ieved had been operating out of Sydney, using _
Singapore as a base to bring }~eroin into Australia.
The raids involved almost half the drugs unit force, as well as a number of opera-
- tives from overseas.~
Police also found 15 grams of cocaine in one of the houses. They said the -
heroin was a grey, pc~wdery type normally produced in the Middle East in the
so-ca~led Golden Crescent, ti~hich stretches through Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
It was different from the white "rock" type of heroin which comes from South-
- East Asia, they said. The heroin was chemically analysed yesterday to determine -
irs purity.
T}ie Federal Police Assistant Co~mnissioner (Crime) Mr John Johnson, said the
arrests could not have been made without the cooperation of the Singapore Cen-
~al Narcotics Bureau.
Four people, all Australian citizens, will appear in Sydney's St James Court '
this morning.
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Sydney THE SYDNEY r10RNING HERALD in English 7 Apr 81 p 10
[Text] mystCriouti ~vuntan dtug 11r Litchtenbcrger said un
courier codenamed "Carmat- FeUruary 28 sem~r r~asri told
ita~' ~~'as ~,f~ered ~a5.0~J0 plus "Carmelit:i' he w�ould pick up ap-
proximately 400 grams of heroin
cxDCn~cs to brin~ hcroin wo[lh in Singaporc ahd shc would raturn
$20l),UOU itltu AuStralia, St lo Australia and give it to Harty
James Cuurt of Petty Scssions ~obeissi in Sydney. .
' was told Vesterday. On lfarch 25, "Carmalits" had
Cl~~vn lo Singxpure and staycd at
"Carmelit;i' all~ge~ly brought the Sea View Hotel. Elaine Ko-
13U grams uf heruin iniu Syd~ey beissi had flown from Sydncy to
from Singapore, ancl poli;e later ~..~banon and had later met "Car-
substitut~d br~wn ,ugar for the ha malita" fi Singapore on March 3Q.
' roin, the cowt was tuld. Qn rtarch 31, L'laine had gi~'en
Ap~~earing bcforc Air G. Smyth, the heroin to �Carmalita", who
. S~f, ~~c~re Samir Nasri, 3?, at~d 16~ flew to Australia and arrived iA
tis,;:im Jl;:~ri. I of' Ew�att Street, Sydney on April 3.
llul~~ ich Hill. and Harry }:obcissi, Dfr F. Newnham, for the Masris,
57. ,~~~,I lil;iine l:obcissi. 8, oi said his clients were only found
Rowc Si~cet, Sydenham. H�ith sume brow~n su ar in their
TI12}' R'CfC each char~e~l with . ~
conspiring ~vilh one anuthcr and possession and some cocaine.
uther vcnple io import hcruin into He vaid thut somewhere along
.'1nct~:~lia bet~~een }-ehruary 20 thc line Samir Nf:isri's casc cuul~
and ~~pri~4. 19R1. ha~~e becn interfered with and
hir J. Lichtenberger. for th somelwdy ~auld ha~~c put some-
Crown, tuld Ihc courl uf u scries of thing inro his bag.
e~~e~ntx ~~liicli culminated in Auslra- Atr T. Ban�ett, for the Robiessis,
lian Hcder:d Pulice raids on twu ~aid the Cro~vn case depcnded on a
housts al Dul~vich Hill :in~l Spdcn- Numan callcd �Carmalita" H~ho
ham lau ~~~crkrnd. had smugglcd heroin intu ~~ustralia
' Hc said Ihat during the raidi. end had no~ yct been charged.
polirc Found brown sugar ~vhich D1r 5:nyth, refusca bail anJ re-
= fiad been snbstituteJ for the 430 manded all four tu appcar in the St
grams uF heroin, ~:hich had a ~~~s thc s:une one the medix ~vere
:treet v~due ol' S2UO.OOU. talkin; ~buut.
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AUSTRALIA
CANNABIS-GROWING SITES RAIDED IN MARGAR~T RIVER AREA
Perth THE j~IFST AUSTRALIAN in English 2 Apr 81 p 4 -
[~rticle by Norman Aisbett]
[Text] The police say that they have completed a
successful five-month crackdown on cannabis cultivation
, and use in the Margaret River area--a district noted
for its alternative lifestyle population.
Several small plantations have been raided and six people have received gaol
terms on cultivation charges.
Houses over a wide area have been searched by policemen operating under warrant.
Sgt Ric Holdsworth, who is in charge of the Margaret River police station, said
yesterday: "Information from our sources, which are reliable, is that traffick-
ing has come to a standstill.
"Since making the bulk of the arrests we have located plots of up to 75 canna-
bis plants which iiad been left untended and were dying...presumably because of
tt~e pressure we t~ave applied. "
The crackdown started last November, he said.
It had been imp.lemented by the four uniformed officers at:ached to the police
station, two of them RTA patrolmen.
Vehicles had been searched as a part of the campaign against drug use in the
area .
According to Sgt Holdsworth, the five-month effort had resulted in 31 seizures
oE cannabis leaf material in houses and vehicles.
Morc t}~an FiUO cailnabis plants had been seized--the biggest single haul being
90, he said. Plants had r.anged in height from small seedlings to specimens
~_ip Co 3. i metres tall.
Most plants had been seized in areas of State forest between Margaret River
= and Nannup, at Scott River and in the Karridale and Bramley districts.
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About 60 per cent of the offenders were described as alternative life-style
- tvpes. Others were "surfies" and "hippy types" who lived in and around the
Margaret River townsite. _
Btish Plots
"Some People lived in the town and had their cultivated plants growing up to
15km away in the bush," Sgt Holdsworth said.
Scott kiver abour. 601cro south of Margaret River, was the most distant. -
SgC Holdsworth 5~id that most charges were laid during February and March.
'rhey includ~d altegations of possession of cannabis, cultivation (six people
on a tvtal of 1Q charges~ an' using cannabis.
OfFenders had been dealt with in the local court and gaol terms up to three
months had been imposed.
Fines had ranged between $100 and $500, which was generally for second offenders.
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a AUjTRALIA
~ PAPUA NEW GUINEA STEPPING UP FIGHT UN DRUG T R1IFFICKING
Perth THE; WP:ST AUSTRALIAN in English 13 Apr 81 p 40
['Text ] I'ort rloresby , Sun : Papua New Guinea's fight
against drug-trafficking could be g iven a dramatic
boost soon.
A submission bein� prepared for the PNG Government by police, customs and health
officials calls for a major revamp of the country's anti-drug operations.
This stems from anxiety ttiat an increasing nurnber of drug-traffickers are pas~-
ing through PNG on their way to the lucrative Australian, New Zealand and Amer- _
ican markets.
The submission advocates the establishment of a national narcotics control
board and tighter surveillance of PNG ports where drug control is considered
loose.
It also calls for increased staffing and the purchase of more patrol boats to -
- aid surveillance. work.
The submission is virtually completed and is expected to be presented to the
- Covernment soon.
The PNG Foreign affairs Minister, Mr Noel Lev i, said that the submission would
mean a boost in police and customs operations if it was adopted. -
Trausit Point
I~e said he was disturbed that PNG was becomin g a transit point for drug-traffickers.
"It i~ time we l~oked intu upgrading police and customs facilities to protect
_ this country," he sa.id.
~ "If PNC authorities can move decisively now they can change the drug trafficker's
aim of using PNG as a transit point."
Last ~veek, PNG police and customs agents seized four suitcases containing drugs
worth more than $4 million.
The drugs--about 40 kg of hashish and hashish oil--were seized in two raids in
Port btoresby.
Three men have since appeared in court on drug charges.
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AUSTRALIA
~ PER'TH ADDICT ADriI'I~ 1980 DEALING IN HEROIN
Perth THE WEST AUSTRt~I.IAN in English 7 Apr 81 p 12
[Text] A detoxified drug addict lapsed back on to
heroin s~on after his release from prison, the Supreme
Court was told yesterday.
Ian Mark f2G), unem� Three days ]ater he ob-
~ioyed, of Doris Street, tained an~ther 10 grams
Nurth Perth, N~ho came and had six of them )eft
when arrested.
off drugs during a 1978
Kaal term, was back on Mr G. A. Milner, for
heroin after 16 munths, Mack, said that he
A'Ir Justic�e VVallace bought the heroin for
. $150 a gram nnd added _
heard. $20 a Rram to the price
~t.~ck pl~~+dcd {;uilty to to get a profit.
.r�]lmg quantit~~ of However, lt was not
hcrnin on ~r ~buut Nnv- really a monetary profit
rmt,er ?'l l~st }�t~ar and because he was not get- -
pus~es~in~~ heruin ~t ting cash but only the
~;~,~�t}i pP~t}~ ��ith intent value of heroin for his
to sell or ~upply it. own use.
He �as i�emanclyd in By pctober last year he
~�ustudy fur scntence. x,~ workin~ in a good -
JJ[r R. J. I~avies, for the ~ob but was then re-
crow~n, tiAld that Mack trenched. He had been
usin~ heroin again for
harl bougttt 10 Rrams oi one month in June 1979.
heruin frnm a man at the
C'harles }l~~tel for ~1500 Mr Milner said that
and had made a profit of M3~k w~as not selling the
$200 by s~littinR it into heroin to novices but to
one-gram lots and sell- i r i e n d s, who were
inR it !ur a total oi heroin i~sers,
$1700.
CSO: 5300
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AUSTRALIA
CAIRNS MEIRIHUANA GROWERS THREATEN SUGAR CANE CROP
Canberra THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN in English 28-29 Mar 81 p 4
[Article by Jacky Archer]
(Text] Threats to burn valuable Queensland sugar crops have been made by a -
syndi.cate of drug dealers, a leading Cairns sugar grower claimed yesterday.
North Queensland sugar mills have received anonymous notes demanding the with-
drawal of all toxic sprays, including the chemical 2,4,5-T.
_ They have been told the sugar crop will be burned if they do not comply by the
end of the month.
The secretary of the Cairns District Cane Growers Executive, Mr pon Forbes,
said the threat stemmed from marijuana growers who feared the sprays could
destroy valuable drug plots and jeopardise their operations.
~ir Forbes said that during the term of the previous Queensland Government, the
former Minister for Health, Sir William Knox, sent a health department team to
Cairns to i.nvestigate claims toxic sprays were affecting resident's health. -
In its off icial report, the team had hinted at a link between marijuana users
and growers and the opposition to 2,4,5-T.
The latest threats ar.e believed to have been sparked by allegations reported
exclu5ivel.y in THE AUSTRALIAN this week that toxic chemicals including 2,4,5-T
had be~n importe~ into Queensland. -
= The claims, made by leading scientists, were based on irregularities in import
records, and suggested a link between the alleged chemical imports and the
running down of the l~S toxic chemicai. stockpile amassed during the Vietnam war.
The threat--purportedly from "concerned parents"--was received by sugar mills
at Innisfail, south of Cairns. The notice read: "If all aerial spraying is -
not permanently terminated by April we will indiscriminately burn cane and
pasture crops during windy, dry conditions in all offenaing areas." _
CIB detectives are investigating the threat and cane growers have tightPned �
security.
CSO: 5300
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AUSTRALIA
GRIFFITH MEETING CALLS FOR PROBE OF ORGANIZED DRUG TRADE
- Sydney THE SYDNEY r10RNING HERALD in English 8 Apr 81 p 2
[Article by Tim Vaughan]
[Test] About 1,500 Griffith residents decided at an emotional meeting yester-
day to seek a national crimes co~ission to probe the organised drug trade.
The meeting also called for an inquest into the 1977 disappearance and pre-
sumed murder of the anti-drug campaigner, Griffith furniture store owner,
Pir I)onald Macka~~.
Mrs Barbar.a Mackay told the meeting: "This is the Griffith I have known since
1957 and that I have decided to stay in since 1977. -
"We cannot stand if we are divided. We must stop the slide. We should be
calling on the Government, lawyers and the police to put their houses in order."
rirs Mackay said many looked on Griffith as a centre of evil. "We hoped it
would go away and now it has festered," she said.
Mr Tom Marriott, who intends to stand as an independent at this year's State
election, organised tne meeting. ~
Many businessmen closed their shops at noon so they could attend the meeting at
Griffith showground.
- About one in nine of Griffith's 13,500 residents attended.
Mr htarriott told the gathering that "insufficiencies" of law enforcement and
local apathy had allowed drug-related crime to worsen.
He said Griffith resicients should not knowingly patronise anyone involved in the
drug trade or anyone who profired from it. At the same time they should not
cond~ict "witch t~unts" within the community.
Although Mr Marriott claims to have the support of the Italian community in _
Griffith, f.ew residents of Italian birth or c?~ .:ent attended the meeting.
A meeting planned for yesterday by Griffith Chamber of Commerce to discuss
- Mr Mackay's disappearance and drug-.related crime was cancelled because the
Wade Shire Council would not back the chamber's plan.
CSO: 5300
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AUSTRALIA
HEROIN CHARGES BROUGHT AGAINST 3 MEN, 4 WOMEN
Sydney THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD in English 10 Apr 81 p 12
[Text] Three men and four women arrested late on Wednesday appeared in the ~
Central Court of Petty Sessions yesterday charged with conspiring to import
heroin .
Before the court were [dilliam Andrew Conino, 44, storeman, and Patricia Louisa
Smith, 41, invalid pensioner, both of William St reet, Granville; Mary Blanch
Copland, 27, home duties, of Jacaranda Drive, Ge orges Hall; Suzanne May Hall,
22, domestic duties, of Durham Street, Carlton; Terrance William Whatley, 29, ~
labourer, of Pyrmont Bridge Road, Camperdown; Paul Michael 0'Connor, 35, store-
man, of Rawson ~Road, Guildford; Jeanette 0'Keff e, 25, home duties, of Anglo
Road, Campsie.
They were each charged with conspiring with each other and other persons to
import heroin at Sydney and elsewhere between November 1, 1980, and April 9
this year.
Copland was charged with having $800 in her cust ody which may be reasonably
suspected of being stolen or unlawfully obtained. She was also charged with
- being knowingly concerned in the importation in to Australia of heroin between
January 31 and April 8 at Sydney.
0'Connor was charged with supplying heroin on January 31 and April 9 at Sydney
_ and 0'Keefe with importing heroin at Sydney on Ap ril 8.
No pleas were entered.
- Mr P. J. Deakin, for the Crown, alleged Copland's husband, who is in Hong Kong,
was the principal in the con5piracy.
He said the conspiracy involved the posting of p ackages of heroin from Penang
- to the address of Smith and Conino and hiding he roin on 0'Keefe's person.
He said 0'Keefe had travelled to Hong Kong with Copland's husband and was -
arrested at Sydney Airport on Wednesday with 0'Connor, who was there to meet
her. He alleged about 119 grams of high-grade h eroin had been found in 0'Keefe's
possession.
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- Mr Deakin alleged Mary Copland had received $800 from the sale of heroin. j
- Mr J. Flynn, Si�I, allowed Copland $1U,000 cash bail on the conditions she report _
~ dai].y to Banksto~,m police, keep a:vay fr.om points of departure from Australia and
that her passport remain in the cusr.c~d~: ~~f uu7 ~ce. _
0'I~eeEe, 0'Connor and Whatley were allowed $5,000 cash bail on the same condi-
tions and Conino, Hall and Smith 51,000 bail.
The matters were adj ourned r_o ~1n ~~i 1 -�>r ~ner.+.- i on .
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AUSTRALTA
TWO SENTENCED FOR SELLING HEROIN THEY SMUGGLED IN
Perth THE WEST AUSTFALIAN in English 7 Apr 81 p 13
[Text] Two young men were sentenced yesterday, in the Supreme Court to six
years for possession of heroin with intent to sell or supply it and for sell-
ing heroin.
Mr Justice Wallace set a two-year minimum before parole for Michael James Drew
- (22), labourer of Harbourne Street, Wembley, and David Johnson Mole (23) elec-
trician, of Blencowe Street, Leederville.
Mr Justice Wallace said that it was a difficult task to send two young men such
as Drew and Mole to gaol.
Neither of them had bad records, but the crime in which they had become involved
was very serious and carried a maximum penalty of 25 years' imprisonment and a
$100,000 fine.
They had imported 50 grams of "deadly heroin" and had sold it to others.
It was difficult to arrive at a proper term of imprisonment, but the term must
reflect the abhorrence of cociety to the crime and be a deterrent to others.
Mr Justice Wallace sentenced Drew to two concurrent six-year terms after Drew
pleaded guilty to possessing heroin with intent to sell or supply it and to
selling heroin at Ldembley in January this year.
He gaoled Mole for six vears concurrently on each of three counts of selling
heroin at Leederville in December last year and January this year. Mole had
_ also pleaded guilty to the charges.
Mr fl. .T. Uavies, for the crown, said that, while overseas together, Drew and
Mole }iad buught 50 gram5 of heroin for $750 and had intended selling it for a
tota.l of $1.500.
'They had Sold some of the heroin but were still in possession of 33.97 grams
of the drug when arrested. It was about 40 per cent pure heroin.
Mr J. Eller, for both men, said that tht:~had become involved in a crazy situa-
tion and had indulged in wholesale foolishness.
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He said that they went to Bali together, but someone stole their travellers'
c}ieques. After getting some more money sent from home they went to Penang,
where heroin appeared to be readily available.
They began using the drug and ~aittiin a;lioi~ time were heavily addicted.
They were offered five 10-gram packets of. heroin at $150 ea~ch and brought it -
back into Australia hidden internal].y, he said. -
They were living in a drug-induced haze at the time and made no secret among
their frienda of their selling the hPr~i~ to get money to spend on the entirel.y
useless life they were leading, rlc Lll~r said.
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AUSTRALIA
BRIEFS
ALP DRUG POLICY--Melbourne--The Victorian ALP has adopted a policy of decriminal-
ising drug addiction. The move was made today at the ALP's State conference
at the Collingwood town hall. The conference a].so voted to reduce the level of
consumption of alcohol and tobacco and the misu se of pharmaceutical products.
It adopted a policy of upgrading police drug sq uads and providing for preven-
- tive, educational community-based progranunes rather than big institutions.
Labor's health spokesman, Mr Tom Roper, told the conference that a State Labor
government would make major reforms to existing drug legislation and services.
His party believed that a government must bear the responsibility for the pre-
vention and management of a alcohol and drug abuse he said. A Labor government
would set up an alcohol and drug consultative council with wide powers and an
- assured budget. The conference also decided that the criminal offence of being .
. drunk in public shouid be repealed. [Text] [P erth THE WEST AUSTRALIAN in
English 30 Mar 81 p 9]
WAR ON COCAINE--Canberra--The Administrative Se rvices Minister, Mr Newman,
yesterday announced new measures to counter an expected increase in the cocaine
- traffic ~.n Australia. He said an Australian Federal Police drug liaison offi-
cer would make rc~gular visits to the Pacific Is land area following major sei-
ziires of cocaine in Tahiti and Fiji. A drug liaison officer would also go to
South America to r~eet officials there involved in the fight against drug
trafficking. Another officer had been posted to Bangkok. [Text] [Brisbane
TH~ COURIER-MAIL in English 3 Apr 81 p 9]
ANNUAL DRUG STATISTICS--Police recovered 15,376 cannabis plants and 52.75kg
of seed in WA last financial year. The Minister for Police and Traffic, Mr
Hassell, said yesterday that 225 people had been arrested and 258 charges of
cultivation had been laid. In addition, 59 people had been arrested and charged
~ on 77 counts of dealing in cannabis. Mr Hassell was replying in the Legislative
Assembly to Mr rt. J. Bryce (Lab., Ascot). The Minister for Education, Mr Gray-
den, earlier told Mr Bryce, that no cases of drug-taking, trafficking or pill-
popping in WA schools were reported to the Education Department during 1979 and
_ 1980. [Text] [Perth THE ~~7EST AUSTRALIAN in Englisn 3 Apr 81 p 10]
CHARGES AGAINST POLICE--A 31-year-old woman has been charged with conspiring
_ with four police officers to obtain a quantity of drugs. A CIB spokesman said
_ that Aloma La Donna Pelham, domestic, of Stirlin g Street, Perth, was charged
yesterday and rEleased on bail. On Monday, three members of the drug squad and
one former ~~ember were charged with conspiracy to defeat the course of justice
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ana conspiracy t~~ ~btain drugs. They are Det Sgt. Kerry John Tangney (36), Det.-
S;t Laurence Edward Butler (31), Der. Senior Const. Robert John Stephenson (32)
and Det. Const. nean James Lewitzka (34). [Text] [Perth THE WEST AUSTRALIAN
_ in English 8 Apr 81 p 1]
- HEROIN FRaM PENANG--It was, as the lzwyers sai.d, a sad account of a young man
- in the grip of l~eroin addiction. David Utting (23), of Broome Street, Cottesloe,
- had been telling the Supreme Court of a lost fortnight in Penang, Malaysia, last
November. In that time tie had bouz'}+* ~bout 45 g of heroin and used about one
_ gram a day. He gave the surpluG. ;-�~~rl_y more than 30g, to someone else to
bring back to Perth on the understanding that he would get back about a quarter -
of that for his own use. Tlie heroin was discovered after the courier, a girl
who had been carryi.ng it internall}~ in condoms, put it down the lavatory in
the aircraft. Ut~ing pleaded guilty to conspiring to import between 30g and
40g of heroin. He went into the witness box yesterday in an effort to prove -
that he had intended the heroin for his own use (maximum penalty, two years`
gaol) rather than for cotnmercial gain (maximum, 25 years). The judge said it
was often necessary to send young people to gaol fur such offences as Uttings,
~ but in his case tttere were special circumstances. He released Utting on a$1000
bond on condition that he go on probation for two years, warning him that if he _
broke the law during ttiattime he would be brought back to be dealt with by the
cotirt. [Excerpts] [Perth THE WEST AUSTRALIAN in English 8 Apr 81 p 14]
SIX IN HEROIN ARREST--Police seized ~.ahich they say has a street value of about
$200,000 and raided six houses in a major drugs haul in Sydney yesterday. Six
people were arrested in the operation, the culmination of several months' in-
vestigation in Ai~stralia and South-Fast Asia. The operation, by more than 20
_ detect~ives from the jcint drugs task force, began when a woman arrived at
5ydney Airport yesterday aboard a flight from Hong Kong at 9.55 a.m. Police
said the woman was met by a man after she cleared Customs, and they left the
airport. [Text] [Sydney TEIESYDNEY MORNING HERALD in English 9 Apr 81 p 2]
PNG DRUG HAUL--Port Moresby (AAP)--A drug haul with a street value of more
than $4 million, which was probably destined for Australia, was netted in a
raid yesterday by the Papua New Guinean drug squad. Police said yesterday
the haul, of abotit 40 kg of hashish resin and oil, was picked up following
months of surveillance by police and customs officers. They said that late
on Wednesday afternoon police stopped a car in a Port Moresby street. A
searcli revealed two suit cases containing about 20 kg of hashish resin and oil.
Soon after, in a raid on a Port Moresby hotel room, two more suit cases were
found, filled with ahout 20 kg of hashish oil. Three men were arrested in the
raids. [Text] [Brisbane THE COURIER-MAIL in English 10 Apr 81 p 12)
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HONG KONG
SEA CHASE NETS LARGE OPIUM HAUL FROM FREIGHTER
Record Seizure
Hong Kong SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST in English 6 Apr 81 p 1
[TextJ Customs officers seized $12 million worth of dehydrated prepared opium
in a dramatic sea chase in the harbour yesterday.
The officers swooped when two men took a consignment of 94 kilograms of opium
from the freight~r Lu Chiang to a walla-walla which sped off towards Yaumati.
Officers from the Investigations Bureau had been watching the Lu Chiang since
it arrived from South Korea on Friday.
They chased the walla-walla in a speedboat.
As they were nearing the walla-walla, two men jumped overboard but were arrested
by two customs of.ficers, Mr Siu Tung-lam and Mr Lau Pak-yip, who dived into the
water to make the arrest following a struggle.
The he~id of Customs Investigations Bureau, Senior Superintendent K. S. Tong,
- said last night that the seizure was the biggest of dehydrated opium ever made
by customs officers.
The last big opium seizure was in 1969 when 100 kilos of raw opium were seized
from the passenger-c~rgo liner Chitral.
Sen Supt Tong said following yesterday`s seizure, five crew members, including
two Indonesians, and nine local residents were arrested and detained for inquiries.
The l.ocal resident5, believed to be members of a Fukien and Cantonese syndicate,
were arrested in follow-up raids in Mongkok and North Point.
Am~ng those arrc~sted were organisers and controllers of the drug consignment.
Sources said that all members of the syndicate have been arrested, except its
mastermind, who slipped out of Hong Kong shortly after the drugs were seized.
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Sen Supt Tong said: "We l~