JPRS ID: 8336 TRANSLATIONS ON NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS

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TRAf~SLATIONS ON NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS ~
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- TRANSLATIONS ON NARCOTICS AND DANGEROI~S DRUGS
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CONTENTS PAGE
ASTA
BURMA
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Youth~ Woman Jailed for Poasesaion ~ 1
IN D IA
Editorial Wa m e Againet India B~coming Too Tolerant of Dzvgs ,
(Editorial; SUN D~AY STANDARD~ 18 Feb 79) 2
MALAYS IA
Four Charged With Traffickin^, �
(NEW STRAITS TIMES, 1 t:ar 79) 3
Druge Bound for Auetralia Found in Stereo Set
(NEW STRAITS TIMES, 12 Feb 79) 4
Fiahezman Held on Drug Charge Ordered To Make Defenae
(NEW STRAITS TIMES, 14 Feb 79) 6
S INGAPORE ~
Briefe
Trafficking Warden Jailed 7
Drug Offenae 7
SRI LANKA
Briefe
Auetralian, Briton Arrested 8
THAILAN D
Heroin Found in Altar
(NATION REVIEW, 15 Feb 79) .e 9
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CUNTENTS (Continued) Page
Policeman Get 40 Yeare on Drug Charge ~
(BANGKOK POST, ].5 Feb 79) 10
- 4.5 Tone of Marihuana Seized, Deetined for Seattle
- (NATION REVIEW, 2 Mar 19) 12
Raid Nete Another Marihuana Bonanaa
(POST, 24 Feb 79) 13 .
Fannere Grow ~Pot~ on the Sly
- (POST, 25 Feb 79) .................................e 14
~Hippies' Nabbed for Druge -
(POST, 25 Feb 79~ 15 �
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Australiane Arrested 16
- CANADA
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Cocaine Seizure Near Montreal Reported
(LA PRESSE, 31 Jan 79) 11
~ndian Millivnaire Sentenced for Drug Traffic
(LE P~:UPLE, 15 Jan 79) 19
LATIN AMERICA
BAH.IMAS
Briefe
Druge Found in Plane Craeh 20
BELIZE
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Heroin Intercept in Beliae 21
COLOMBIA
Forn?er DAS Official Lopez Oyuel.a Arreated
(EL TIFMPO, 12 Jan 79) 22 -
Two American Traffickere ~Dieappear~ From Cienaga Jail
(Walter P. Martines P,; EL TIII~iPO~ 15 Jan 79) 25
~ Cocaine Laboratory Explodes, Five Injured -
- (EL TIEM P0, 16 Jan 79) 26
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CONTENTS (Continued) page
- Cocaine ~MulQ~ Diee at Barrenquilla en Rnute to New York
- (EL ESPECTADOR, 16 Jan 79) 27
Trafficicere Trade Weapone for Marihuana
(Joee Cerventee; EL TIIIrIPO~ 13 Jan 79) 28
Cocaine With 'New Procees~ Raided
(EL ESPECTADOR, 14 Jesn 79) 30
Traffickere, Plane, Vehiclee Seized in Bolivar
(EL ESPECTADOR~ 14 Jan 79) 32
D~AS Raide Large Coca Plantation
(EL ESPECTADO 10 Jan 79) 33
Marihuana Seized, No Arreete in Magdal.ena
(Ulilo Acevedo Silva; EL ESPECTADOR~ 6 Jan 79) 35 -
Marihuana Entere Prieon in ~Triplex'
(EL ESPECTADOR, 11 Jen 79) 36
Cocaine, Aircraft Seized Near Calamar
(Narcieo Caetro; EL TIII~IPO~ 11 Jan 79) 37
Nearly Pure Cocaine Seized at Airport
(EL ESPECTADOR, 11 Jan 79) 38
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Cocaine Confiecated 3~9
Cocaine Shipment Seized . ~9
Cocaine Confiecatiion 39
ECUADOR
Briefe
Colonel Charged on Druge 40
MEXICO
Review of Book 'Proetitution and Druge'
(Lourdee Romero A.~ Ana Maria Quintanilla;
EL SIGLO, 14 Jan 79) 41
_ Briefs
- Cocaine Haul 42
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CONTENTS (Continued) pgge
PAIVAMA
Columniet Viewe Effects o� U.S. Legali.zation of Marihuana
(Mario Augueto Rodriguea; LA REPUBLICA~ 28 Feb 79) 43
PERU
Cocaine Ring Poeing ae Handicrafte Exporters Uncovered
(EXPRESSO, 19 Jan 79) 45
_ URUGUAY
Draft Law on Druge Sent to Council, of State '
(EL PAIS, 23 Jan 79) 47
VENEZUELA
Briefe
Traffickere' Arrest 48
NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA _
EGYPT
Haehieh Growere Arrested
(THE EGYPTIAN GAZETTE, 8 Feb 79) 49
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
- MADAGASCAR
Raeoanaivo Psper Detaile Pr4pertiee of Khat
(MADAGASCAR-MATIN, 7, 8 Feb 79) 50 ~
MAURITIUS
Antidrug Drive Reported -
' CLE MAURICIEN~ 15 .Tan 79) 55
WE3TERN EUROPE
ITALY
- ERRAT[~1: In JPRS L/8278 (FOUO /79) 15 February 1979 of -
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_ ArreOts Made at Airport~" pp 51-52~ oti page 51 plea6e
change in paragraph 4, line 7 360,0~0 fixee to read
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SWIT2ERLAN D
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Sentence for Trafficking 56
- Drug Deathe 56
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BURMA
BRIEFS
YOUTH, WOMAN JAILED FOR POSSESSION--Mandalay, 17 Feb--Mandalay NorCheast
township courC No 1 with U Khin Maung as chairman and Daw Win Kyi and U
Tun Sein as members today found Ma Shosi, 32, daughter o� U Sholu of Lashio,
guilty as charged under Ssction 6.B [of the Narcotic Drugs Law] and sentenced
_ her to 10 yea~s imprieonment. The case was brought Co trial after Subinspec-
tor U Thet Shay of Mandalay police sCation No 8 and war.; council members -
- found a packet of heroin and a cigarette tin containing heroin from defendanC
Ma Shosi on 16 December 1977. The same township court No 1 today sentenced
Maung Pho Gyawt, 22, of Maymyo's Hawgon ward, Co 7 years imprisonment after
the defendant was also found guilty under Section 6.B. The case was that
on 31 December 1976, Corporal U Aye Maung of Mandalay police station No 8
and ward council members seized 10 packets of heroin, each worth 1,0 kyats,
from Maung Pho Gyawt. [Text] [Rangoon MYANMEI ALIN in Burmese 22 Feb 79 -
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INDIA
F.DI'rORIAL WARNS AGAINST INDIA BECOMING T00 TOLERANT OF DRUGS
Delhi SUNDAY STANDARD in English 18 Feb 79 p 6 BK
[F.ditorial: "Drug Traffic"]
[Text] During the sixties and early seventies the media wrote extensively c
� nbout the drug traffic that threatened to route itself through India. Then
having run the sub~ect to the ground, everyone forgot all about it. In
t}~ese last five years o� public ennui, drugs like mari~uana, heroin, cocaine
and charas in our larger cities have become openly available. Ir requires
no more effort or subt~:rfuge than purchasing a packet of cigar.ettes. They
are no longer an amusi.ng novelty but a danger. And the student faculty as
well as the urbane Indian are providing an adequate marl:et for the whole-
- sale dealers in the East to seriously reconsider India as both a potential
selling area as well as a ma~or stopover point for raw opium on its way to
- F.urope and the Americas.
It is equally likely that with our casual attitude to the invasion of hard -
drugs, we will soon be a serious port of call for the Poppy hings of the -
Far East. Young boys and girls smoke charas with impunity in Delhi and
Bombay, on campus and off. Private pot parties in elite circles are no
longer eyebrow-raising exceptions. It is happening, today, in front of our -
noses, to our chi~l.dren. Large consignments of contraband drugs are caught -
by Customs regularly, coming in and going out. The massive hippie poF~sla-
tion we give refuge to are prime carriers for the unscrupulous narcotic -
_ magnates. Despite such obvious indications, nobody is perturbed.
If things go on in this ridiculously tolerant manner, it is a question of -
- tl?r.e before India replaces Nepal as the Asian Connection. Our relatively
unpoliced coastline and mauntains are ideal escape routes for traffickers.
Must we wait for things to get out of hand before we tackle the problems. _
Today, in Bombay, any street urchin will tell you when a new consignment ~
hits the market. Immediately the prices go down. Tomorrow, it is your
children who will be hooked on the ~abit and by then it will be too late. -
The drugs are here on our streets already. We either come down hard imme- _
dintely or suffer the proliferation in the future. -
And that is one trip we must not take.
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- FOi1R CHARGED WITH TRAFFICKING
Kuala Lumpur NEW STRAITS TIMES in English 1 Mar 79 p 5 BK _
[Excerptj Alor Star, Wed.--A forme~r Central NarcoCics Bureau off icer told
the High Court today he saw a man placing a paper bag--which was later
- found to contain 10 plastic packetfs of h eroin--on top of a chicken coop
during a drug raid on a house.
"I introduced myself and told the man not to run away," Insp. Mohamed ~
Amin bin Abdul Samat, said.
He added that he drew out his pistol when he saw the man attempting to run
- away.
Insp. Mohamed Amin was testifying against lorry driver Teoh FCai Seong, 32,
and three others, including two women, on separate charges of trafficking '
in heroin. ~
'Inadmissible'
Teoh, defencied by Mr Karpal Singh and Mr P.S. Gill, is charged with traffick- _
, ing in 1.862 kilogrammes of heroin at a house in Sungei Petani on July 24, _
1976. Labourer Yeoh Cheng Poh, 35, Lim Sun Kim, 64, and Ng Cha Nya, 67,
are charged together with trafficking in 1.862 kilogrammes of heroin on the
same day and place. _
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DRUGS $OUND FOR AUSTRA.LIA FOUND IN STEREO SET
_ Kuala Lumpur NEW STRAITS TIMES in English 12 Feb 79 p 1 BK -
[Text] Alor Star, Sun.--The High Court heard today how Customs officers
at the Changloon checkpoint found 10,416 grammes of ganja hidden in a
stereo tuner and a casette deck belonging to an Australian tourist.
_ Superintendent o~f Customa.Mohamed Yusuf bin Che Long of the Bukit Kayu
Hitam ~usComs office said the drugs were discovered after� the two sets
were opened.
The drugs, in 49 packets wrapped in plastic, were hidden in the sets and
belie~ed to have been intended Co be taken to Australia.
- Encik Mohamed Yusuf was testifying against baker Ross Anthor~y Cribb, 21,
who is charged with trafficking in ganja on Jan. 26 last year.
= Encik Mohamed Yusuf said Customs officer Mohamed Noor bin Bahari brought
_ Gribb to him and expressed his suspicion about the two sets. -
'Surprised'
- Mohamed Noor had earlier been instructed to examine the sets before issuing =
receipts for the payment of deposits required for dutiable goods on transit
- to Malaysia.
The seta were weighed and each welghed 12 kilogrammes. However, the -
attached catalogue listed the weight of the stereo tuner as 5.7 kilogrammes ,
and the casaette deck as 6.1 kilogrfumnes.
Because of the discrepancy, Encik Mohamed Yusuf said he asked Cribb what
was inside the sets and he replied there was nothing.
He said he then told Cribb he had to open up the sets as they suspected _
there was so~+ething in them.
Opening the atereo tuner, Encik Mohamed Yusuf said, he found a plastic
wrappin~ of 25 small plastic packets containing ~reen herbal mat~rials .
believed to be ganja.
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Another 24 similar packete were fo~~nd wrapped ir~ plastic, ineide Che
casaette d~cl.. �
"Cribb seemed surprised and was m~ttering to himself~" he said, when UPP
~ncik Abdu;~ Malik bin Ha,~i lehak asked about Cribb's reacCion Co Che find.
The trisl is before Juseice Datuk Syed ,'~gil Bnrakbah. Cribb ie being
defend~d by Mr K. ~t. Choe assieted by Mr James Ponniah.
The hearing continues tanorrow.
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MALAYSIA
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FISHF.'ftN~N H~;LD ON URUG CHARG~ ORD~RED TO MAKE DEFENSE
Kuala Lumpur NEW STRAITS TIMES in English 14 Feb 79 0 p BK -
[Text] Kuala Luaipurr Tues.--The High Court ~oday ordered three fishermen
to make their defence on a drug trafficking charge involving 6.31 ib. of
heroin.
H'ng ~!h Bah, 27, Teo Ah Bah, 26, and Ong Sui Kim, 27, will make their re-
apective defence ta.arrow. They were jointly charged with committing the
_ off nce at Nanyang Hotel in Jalan Sultan here on Oet. 10, 1976.
The order by Mr. Justice Harun Hashim was made after their reapective
counael had subm~tted "a no case to answer."
s N'ng is represented by Mr. Karpal Singh, Teo by Mr. R. Rajasingam and Ong
by Mr. Jag-Jit Singh. 'DPP Encik Mohamed Yasain Ibrahim appeared for the
proaecution.
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_ At a previous hearing, ASP M. Ramalingam af the Narcotic Branch, Selangor -
CID Headquarters told the court tnat he recovered 10 packets plastic
packeCa containing heroin hidden in two separate etacks of wooden trays,
when he raided a room at the hotel.
He recovered another two plastic packets fran a suitcase which he dismantled
at his office ;+Eter arreating the three men.
~ Earlier, undcr cross-examination by Mr. Jag-Jit Singh, ASP Ramalingam eaid
that he arreated the three men after failing to locate a man by the name
of Ng Go ~ah.
He said ;1g was mentioned to him by Ong and is believed to be involved in
an international drug distribution.
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SINGAPORE
BRYEFS
- TRAFFICKING WARDEN JAII.~D--A 28-year old prison k*arder, (Husaein Bin Atu~uad) ,
was sentenced to 6 years' 3ai1 and ordered to be given aix strokea of the
cane for trafficking in 1.85 grams of r?eroin at the Queenatown Remand Pridon
last month. He was a1sA sentenced for 1 year for posaession of the drug.
llis sentencea will run concurrently. Husaein pleaded Auilty to both of-
fencea. [Text] [Singapore Daneati~ Service in English 1130 GMT 15 Feb 79
BK~
bRUG OFFENSE--Alor Star, Tues.--Satay-seller Adek :runa bin Sukiman, 21,
was yesterday sentenced by the Sessions court to five yeare' ~ail and
ordered to receive five strokes of the rotan for possession of 5.41
grammes of heroin. i':'~xt~ (Singapore THE STRAITS TIMES in English
28 Feb 79 p 15 BK]
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BItIEFS
AUSTRAI.IANrBRITON ARRC5TEU--Police arrested two foreign nnCionals who had
in their posse~eion 1,246 grains of hashish in the Hikkaduwa touriat resort
l~~st week. The palice Narcotics Bureau reported the arrest of an Australian
on Monday in Hikkaduwa, who had with him 775 Rrains of Hashish, valued at
It:~. 2,300. Prevtously a UK national had been taken into custody for p~s-
~essing 221 grains of hashish and 250 grains of hashish oil. Narcotics
_ Bureau sources pointed out that since hashiah was not made locally it must
have t~een smug~led in to Sri Lanka from anQther country. [Colombo SUN in
[:n~lish 14 Feb 79 p 3 BKj
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THAILAND
( NEROIN FOUND IN ALTAR
- Bangkok r1ATI0N REVIEW in English 15 Feb 79 p 8 BK
[Textj Crime Suppreseion police yeaCerday searched a warehouae 3n Hua
Mark area and diacovered two kilogranmmes uf No 4 heroin pending smuggling
out of the country to France.
Police said the drug wae neatly packed in a set of altar at the warehouse
of the Boonma Moving Company which handles the packing of goods for
shipment to other countriea.
Police are hunting for the owner of the drug which was reportedly sent here
from Chiang Mai.
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abroad which were seized by police. [Bangkok DAO SIAM in Thai 15 Feb 79 p 1 BK]
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THAII.AND
POLICEMEN GET 40 YEARS ON DRUG CHARGE
Bangkok BANGKOK PO5T in English 15 Feb '79 p 3 BK
(Text] beputy Prime Minister General Bunchai Bamrungphong, acting on behalf
of the premier, yesterday exercised his ahsolute powers under Article 200 by
sentencing a police oPPicer and hie subordinate to 40 years' imprisonment each
For possesaing heroin gor sale.
A third accomplice, a civilian identified only a3 Louis, was sentenced in
absentia to 30 years' imnrisonment. The fourth accomplice, Pol Mst-Sgt Kitti
Naicharun attached to Ayutthaya District Police Station, was found not guilty
and released.
The order imposing heavy ~ail terms on the two policemen--Pol Lt Bunsup Aphasak
and Pol Mst-Sgt Sa-at Sinun. boCh attached to Ayutthaya Diatrict Police Station--
cited that they deserved heavy penalty to set an example to other policemen _
and because they were law enforcere, but broke the law themselves.
According to reports, Pol Lt Bunsup, Pol Mst-Sg: Sa-at and Louis who is still
at large met with narcotics agenta in front of Hctel 32 on Suthisan Road last
17 November trying to sell 2.i.~4 kilogrammes of heroi?? cl�loride to undercover
agents for 165,000 baht. -
As the three men were counting money after a deal was made, the agents gave a
signal for the other plainclothes cops laying in wait to make the arrest.
Bunsup and Sa-at were apprehended on the spot, but Louis managed to escape.
The six bags of heroin contained in a suitcase were confiscated.
During police interrogation, Pol Lt Bunsup denied any involvement in the nar-
cotics racket. He said he was hunting a person in Ayutthaya when he met Pol
Mst-Sgt Kitti who carried a suitcase whose contents he wanted to sell in
Bangkok. The suitcase was later found to contain the heroin.
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Police Lieutenant Bunaup Aphasat (left) and Police Sgt Sa-at Sinun have been
sentenced to 40 yeare imprisonment each under artic1~~200 of the Conatitution.
- (Bangkok THAI RAT in Thai 15 Feb 79 p 1 BK~
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THAILAND .
~i.5 TONS 0~ MARIHUANA SEIZED, DESTINED FOR 5EATTLE
13angkok NATION R~VI~W in ~nglish 2 Mar 79 pp 1, 8 BK -
('CextJ lfighwny police seized more Chan 4.5 Cons of mari~uana--estimated
to be worth around 46 million baht in overseas black markeC--from ~n
I:xpregs Trnnsport Organization truck in Rayong Wedneaday.
Tl~e trurk driver, Suriya Phayung, 42, was also arrested and handed over
tu Cl~c Crime Suppression Police Division in Bangkok.
Acting on a tip-off, Commissioner of the Central InvestigaCing Bureau
Pol Lt Cen Kitti Seribut radioed Pol Col Chaiwat Chiradamrong, Deputy
Commander of the Highway PoZice Division, to inCercepC four ETO trans-
port truck suspected of carrying large amount of mari~uana which would
leave Don Munng airporC for Rayong.
Nowever, a soldier with the rank of lieutenant colonel, riding in a Volks-
wagen which led the convoy resisted a search at a checkpoint in Chonburi.
As it turnec'. out there was only one truck left when it was finally halted
by highway police at a checkpoint on Rayong-Baan l:~i Highway in Rayong.
A total of 4,542 kilogrammes of dry marijuana contained in 280 aluminum
boxes were discovered on the truck.
The driver was quoted as telling the police that he had been assigned to
transport the goods from Don Muang to Sattahip Deepsea Port without the
kn~wledge that tl~ey were in fact marijuana.
All the 280 aluminum boxes bore labels saying that they contained dry
- shrimps destined for the Fish and Oyster Company in Seattle, Washington.
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RAID NETS ANOTHER MA1tIHUANA BONANZA
13angkok POST in ~nglish 24 Feb 79 p 1 I3K -
(TcxtJ Another 9J0 kilos of seick mari3uana bound for the United States
w~s uncovered in Chon Buri's Si Racha District when Customs officials and
Crime S uppression Divi~tion police searched the house of a woman suspect
who was arreaCed Thuraday with 1,674 kilos of mari~uana.
'l'he drug is worth 9.4 million baht in New York streets.
Police said the new haul of drug belonga to the same clandesCine group
- which a ttempted Thursday to ship ouC 26 crates of stick mari~uana worth
26.7 million baht in street value in New York or about 1 million baht at
street prices in Bangkok.
_ 'The drug was discovered when a combined Customs-CSD team xaided the Si
Racha hcuse early yesterday morning.
The accused, Mrs Boonying, disclaimed any knowledge of the drug but said
. that she had been hired by an American touriat namea Johanes V. Madsen to
. ship the crates to Broadway, New York and knew nothing about their contents.
, Believing the graup was using its Si Racha hideout to pack the drugs into
, ~�r;ites for shipment, the authorities rushed to 42/100 Village 4, Bangphra
ye;;terdzy morning.
N~~ ane was present when the officials made the raid.
7'he dru~ found is worth 540,000 baht at street prices in Bangkok or 9.4
million baht in New York.
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' THAILAND
FARMERS CROW 'PO'T' ON THE SLY
Bnngkok POST in Englieh 25 Feb 79 p 3 BK
(1'ext~ PheCchaburi--Farmers i.n thia province are sti].l growing mari~uana
cl~ndesCinely in addition to regulur maize and rice crops in order to
boost their incume, Deputy Superintendent of Phetchaburi police Pol
Lt-Col Vichit KouypheC diaclosed yesterday.
(lc snid that after the mari~uana is harvested, it is smugg:.ed into the
provincial capital concealed under oCher farm produce, tb.us making it
difficult for the authorities to detect the drugs. The mari~uana here -
Eetches about 50 baht per kilo, which is considered �t good income compared
to other crops.
lle said mari~uana is secretly grown in hilly areas in Tambon Song Pi
Nong and Tambon Kaen Kracharn of. Tha Yang District; Tambon Nongyapong,
Tambon Kladnua and Tambon Kladtqi of Yapong Subdistrict.
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'HIPPIES' NABBED FOR DRUGS
Dangkok POST in English 25 Feb 79 p 1 BK
_ [TextJ Phuket--Seven hippie-type foreigners were arrested Friday on the
well.-known Rawai beach in tihia resort town and charged with possession of _
small amounts of mari~uana and heroin, police reported yesterday.
'I'wo oE rhe seven were charged wiCh possession of heroin while the rest
were held for possessing mari,juana, police said.
The n~tionalities of the seven Westerners were unknown. They are being
detniled at the Muang District police sCation. -
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receiving a number of reports that the hippies were using the drugs and
walking naked on the beach.
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, BRIEFS
- AUSTRALIANS ARRESTED--Three Auatralian tourists were arreated last night
, at the Reno Hotel on Kasemsan Soi 1, in fronC of the National SCadium on
a charge of possessing 105 grammes of high grade No 4 heroin, police re-
ported. The trio were idenCified as Mrs Janice Ann Hunter, Mr S. Hoder.
and I~r Michael Kinner. They are being detained at Pathumwan police aCation
for further investigation. The report said a narcotic suppression police
team headed by Pol Lt SomlerCrit Wattanaviboon raided the room of the trio
at 7.30 p.m. and made a thorough check until about 9 p.m. [Bangkok BANGKOK
_ WORLD in Engliah 9 Feb 79 p 3 BK]
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rgrily, g new
court in the High M111tnry Tribunal, which is the higheat milieary ~ourC.
Lopez Oyuela wae appoin~ed Chen to one of the Cempor~ry ~udgeshipg and
remained in Che poet unCil Che eCnC~ of ~iege wns lifCed nnd his ~ob,
Ch~refore, wc~s ended~
Pr~eticeg Leggl Profes~ion
After thgt Tony Lopez Oyuela devoted himgelf to hi~ legal prnfession, and
his moaC outseanding p~rformance was hig representation in ehe civil courts
- of the murderer of labnr leader Jose Raquel Mercado, who wae kidnaped and
executed by Che M-19. Through thia civil ceae he received an appointment
to Che CTC ~Cnlombian Confederation of Workers] on ehe recommendation of
Teresa Valencia, who was one of Che secretaries of the confederation and
a very good friend of Tony Lopez Oyuelg himself.
Today it ie recalled that Lopez Oyuela's behavior, at least in appearance,
gave rise to some embarrasement. This was when the ~ustice department, ,
which also suepected Teresa Valencia in the Jose Raquel Mercado Cragedy,
iesued a warrant for Maria Victoria Marin do Gomez. She was represented
by Cesar Montoya Ocampo, the expert in criminal law, who appealed her arrest, _
an action which was immediaCely eupported by the CTC counsel, Lopez Oyuela.
Urug Trafficking
Another of Lopez Oyuela's recent actions, viewed wiCh equal amazement, was
that of acting as defenae counsel for syndicates of one of the drug traffick-
ing mafias. This is aurprising, noC because there was any legal impediment,
but rather another, strictly moral, one, aince Lopez Oyuela, ae chief of _
the DAS Judicial Police, had been sent off icially to the United SCates to
receive special instruction in the f ight against the narcotica tra�fic.
Cotenant with Arteaga
The evidence concerning his poasible connectiona with the M-19, which led
to the arreat of the former military judge and DAS police chief, is not
known in detail.
It has only been possible to confirm two facts which indicate that it Was
not juat a aimple friendahip and a profeasional relationship which existed
between Tony Lopez Oyuela and the Arteaga Moron couple, but something more
intimate and secret.
One is that Rafael Artea~a was a cotenant of the professional offices
wtiich Lopez Oyuela maintains at 401 Korkidi Building, on 12th S[reet between
Highways 5 and 6.
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'That f~ct fiC~ in wi~eh andther o.E ~pecinl gignific~ncet ~om~ di the
ArCeg~a Mdrdn couple'g n?ail w~~ ~ent td Lopez Oyuela~e office and from
there wag delivered Cn Che addressee~, Hnwever, ~he couple who utt~'~rtook
to construcr a tunnel td bring weapong out of the North ~anton m~intained
their centrel offices of "Produmedicog" in full operaeion, a~ we11 as
eheir poat office box. Therefor~, the mail which arrived for Chem ~t Lopez
Oyueln's office mu~e have b~en sent by p~raon~ who were privnCely ineCructed
to do so,
To the foregoing musC be added ehe arrest df ~lena Isaac, nnnther woman
~llegedly involved with the M-19~ abouC whom we will reporC el~pwhere in
thie same ediCion.
Yesterday Tony Lnpez Oyuel~ was placed in cugtody of the lU6th Judge o~
Military Penal InetrucCion, who will hear his sCaCemenC at Che end of thig
w~ek or the beginning of next. ~ormer court 3udge and attorney Humberto
Bnrrera bominguez, whoae office~ ere next door to those of Lopez Oyuela,
ye~terday informed the military ~udge that he would aseist hig cnlleague
at the hegring.
It must be added that Lopez Oyuela also appeared in the case of Alberto
Snntofimio Botero and others~ since he represented Olimpo Cardenas, lover
of the invalid girlfriend of the former preaident of the House, who has
been arrested and incarcerated.
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COLOMBIA
TWO AM~tt~CAN TEtA~~ICK~RS ' n~5APP~AIt ~~'ROM CIENAGA JAIL
8ogota ~L TI II~iPO in Sp~niAh 15 Jatt 79 p 16-A
_ ~Article by Walter p. Mgrtin~z P.j
(TextJ SanCa Marta, 14 Jan~-Two American drug traffickers ~rrested by the
army last 18 December on the "Caribu" ranch in the banana dietrict with a
planeload of marihuana have disappeared from the Cienaga municipal ~ail
under sCrange circumatances.
The traff ickers are Hraley Joseph Mayluck and Robbin Pittock, crew of a
UC-3, American regiatration N-788 X, who had taken on a load of marihuana
and were all fueled up and ready for takeoff.
The Americans were surprised by a patrol from the Cordoba Battalion of
Snnta Marta, who aeized them after they had nlready loaded the plane With
4,300 pounde of che "grass," valued at more than 12 millinn pesos. !
The action took place on a clandestine strip on the "Caribu" ranch in the
Cuamachito region, in the jurisdiction of Cienaga, ana~ during the military
operation three vehicles were also impounded: a tank truck which supplied
fuel for the DC-3~ a Ranger van and a Dodge Power Wagon.
The tWO Americans were taken to the Cienga ~ail, from Which they diaappeared
last night.
According to reporta, the narcotics traffickera fled without any violence,
eince not even the locka or latchea of their cells Were damaged. _
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COLOMgIA
CdCAIN~ LABdItATbitY ~7tpLOD~5, ~IV~ TNNR~D
BogoCa ~L TIE~2tP0 in Spaniah 16 Jan 79 p 14-C
(Text~ ~ive pergona hgve been eeriously hurt in Ch~ explo~ion of a eophieti-
caCed cocaine laboraeory.
One of Che moat techttically perfect of the cocaine lgboraCOries found to
daee exploded on 14 January in the municipality of Pacho, Cundinamurca,
according to reporte given thie paper by official sources.
All indicationa are that the five in3ured pereons were involved in Che
millionaire laboratory~ and for this reaeon they ere under heavy police guard
in the hoepital there.
- The injured, wha were taken immediately to the hospital., auffered severe
' burns all over their bodiea and faces and are totally diefugured~ Three
gdulte, a youth and a child have been placed in intensive care in an attempt
to gave thpir lives and ease their pain.
~ According to the phyeician on duty, the wounded were identif ied as Julio
Restrepo, 30 yeara of age; Tiberio Bocanegra, 28, whose condition is the
most serious; a Mr Ro~as, 24; a youth named Ovalle, 19, and the boy,
Victor Cabino Roldan~ 14.
All auffered firet~ aecond and third degree burns.
Authorities from the Departmental Police and the Divieion of Narcotics are
investigating the laboratory, conaidered one of the biggest in terma of its ~
capacity for procesaing the drug.
Unofficial reports say the explosion occurred when a motor used to run the
costly equipment Wae atarted and emitted sparks which then ignited a tank
of gas used as fuel.
The residence arhere the clandeatine laboratory was inetalled was oWned by
Omar Bocar,Qgra and Was completely destroyed.
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COLOMBIA
CbCAIN~ 'MUL~~ DIE5 AT BARItANQ~1ILLA ~N 1t0UT~ TO NEW YOItK
Bogota EL ~SPECTADOR in 5panieh 16 Jan 79 p 9-A
(Text] Barranquilla. A young Colombian women treveling on Avignca flight -
0052, which covera the Bogota-Barranquilla-New York rouCe, died when
geveral tiny packete of cocaine ahe had swallowed bursC, and she became
intoxicated.
The young women wae identified as Myriam Angarita de Casas, about 27 yeara
_ of age, who lefC BogoCa bound for New York with a atopover in Barranquilla.
According to police~ the young woman appears Co have been one of the ao-called
"mulea" in the narcotice traff ic, and her job was to carry about 1 kilo of
high-quality cocaine to New York City.
M autopey was performed by the medical examiner of the municipal cemetery,
Who found in her digeative tract, between the atamach and esophagus,
~ eeveral ve~y emall packagea of cocaine, which burat for reasona unknoWn,
cauaing the death by intoxication of the young pasaenger.
Momente before the plane landed on the runway of "Ernest~ Cortisaoz" airport
here, the young woman became violen'ly ill and was taken to the Clinica
de3 Caribe where ehe died later in epite of the efforts of the medical
etaff.
Police iiere have begun inquiriee into the case in order to find possible
contacts of the unfortunate young woman, ae well as thoae responaible for
, , her death, i.e., the pereone Who gave her the drug.
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T1tA~IC1t~Ft5 TRADE WEAPONS FOIt MAttINUANA
Bogotg ~L TIEMPO in Spanish 13 Jan 79 p 6-A
(Article by Joae Cervantes]
[TextJ Barranquillg~ 12 Jen--A Cuban and a"gringo" were to exchange weapons
for marihuana with Colombians at a clandesCine airport on I.a Guajira Penineula.
The Cuban, Pedro Otoniel Pena, and Che "gringo," Michael Lee Carrell, who
were captured aboard a DC-3 on a rural road near Maracaibo last Tuesday, con-
-j fesaed tb Chie intention. ~
- The pair of traffickera also confeeaed thaC aboard the plane they were trana-
porting a giant araenal.
ThQ captured traffickers did not say whether the exchange of weapons for -
_ marihuana would take place with people connected with Colombian urban guer-
rillas.
The arsenal which Pena and Carrell were trying to bring into Colombia con-
sisted of 60 Magnum-44 revolvera, 12 M-1 rifles, 100 boxes of ammunition,
30 fragmentation grenadea and other smaller firearms.
Pena and Carrell confeased to the authorities of Maracaibo, Venezuela, that
when a mechanical failure was regiatered aboard the DC-3 they were flying to
Gun~ira they threw a large quantity of weapons and ammunition into Maracaibo
I.ake, but some weapons remained aboard. This indicated to the Venezuelan ~
Nntional Cuard and the secret police of that country that weapons were being
taken to Colombia.
Venezuelan detectives were able to recover aboard the DC-3 with U.S. registry
some M-1 riflea, grenades and Magnum-44 revolvers.
Capture
The capture of the DC-3 and its two crewrnen occurred Tuesday on a rural,
little-traveled road of Zulia State, near Maracaibo.
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'The DC-3, whoee re~laCrntion wae noC given to ~L TI~MPO's reporeer from
Maracaibo by eelephone, guff~red from overhe~ting of one of ite engines when
it waa flying over u porCion of the lake.
1'he plane took off from a clandestine airport in aouthern Florida far another _
clandestine airport in La Gua~iru.
It mnde g ehort refueling stop on one of the islands locaCed off the Venezuel.an
coast, where a connection of Che internaCional gang of Craffickera in weapons
gnd druge supplied Che fuel.
According to Che confeasion of Pena and Carrell, this ia an almost obligatory
stopover for all the "marimberos" planes which f1y from the United Staees to -
La Gua~ira to load the grass.
For unknown reasone, after refueling and starCing ehe flighC the DC-3 began
losing altitude because of the overheaCing of one of its engines.
- Carrell quickly maneuvered over the lake while Pena was throwing Che weapons ~
into the water.
Later they made an emergency landing on a deserted road a few kilometers from -
the zulta capital. Authoritiea appeared, and the Cwo traffickers tried to
bribe [he National Guard membere, but they failed to do so and were arrested
and forced Co confesa.
Landing Strip Mapa
Aboard the plane the Venezuelan authorities found a map indicating at leasC
20 clandestine air sCrips in La Gua~ira.
Carrell and Pensa said that they were going to exchange a ahipment of weapons
for one of marihuana at one of these clandesCine airports.
They added that they had carried out this type of exchange before without
any difficulty.
Venezuelan police confirmed from Maracaibo that all the seats on the plane
had been removed to facilitate the loading of more packages of mari~uana.
- Also aboard, the police discovered modern radio communications equipment, the
mapa~ and weapons which the two men were unable to throw into the water, as
well as many dollara.
As usual in theae casea, the two crewmen of the "marimbero" plane had no
identification papers.
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; COLOMBIA
COCAINE WITH 'NEW PROCESS' ItAIDDD
_ Bogota EL ESPECTAD022 in Spanieh 14 Jan 79 pp 1-A, 7-A
[Text] The regional anCinarcotics team of the Attorney General's Office
delegated to the Judicial Police, with headquarCers in Barranquilla, yesCerday
etruck a aerious blow against drug trafficking gangs when they locaCed in
that city a cocaine procesaing laboraCory and aeized over 74 lbs of Che alka-
loid ready for illegal exportation.
Four Captured
Reports received in BogoCa indicate that Che laboratory was discovered in
house number 85-93, 52-A Avenue, "Alto Prado" section of the capital of
Atlantico Department [Barranquilla], and that during the operation three men
and one woman were arreated.
Powder and Tableta
It was learned that during the raid the members of the antinarcotics team--
who acted in cooperation with units of the F-2 of the police department of
- Atlantico--aeized 14 lbs and 480 ounces of very pure cocaine and 573 tablets _
" or pil~s of the same product.
The occupant of the residence, who was indentified as Joae de Jesus Gomez
Lopez, was arreated together with his wife and two other individuals who were
apparently engaged in procesaing the alkaloid.
Dollars and Pesos
At the same location the antinarcotics team seized $5,000 and 25,700 pesos -
in cash, which apparently came from one of the cocaine sales to international
traffickers.
- The succeasful operation carried out by the regional antinarcotics team of
the Attorney General's Office delegated to Che Judicial Police, with the
valuable assistance of the F-2, is of special importance, because this is
the first time that a laboratory of this kind has been discovere3 in
Barranquilla. _
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IC ehould also be pointed ouC Chat Che raid mgde it poeaible to discover a
new syetem being uaed by the drug traffickera in their desire Co deceive Che
auChoritiea. The aystem conaist~ of solidifying ~he cocaine into tablees
Co make traffic in it leas notic~~able not on~.y within the country but also
abroad.
It was also learned Chat the investigaCors seized two automobiles, one of
them a Dodge D~rt, 1lcenae plates AM-1568.
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COLOMBIA
TRAFFICKERS, PLANE~ VEHICLES SEIZED IN BOLIVAR
Bogota EL ESPECTADOR in Spanish 14 Jan 79 p 21-A
(Text~ A amall plane and Cwo automobilea were aeized and six peraons who
allegedly were membera of a drug traffickera gang operating in Bolivar De-
partment were arreated by the authoritiea.
The announCement was made by the governor of thst aection of the country,
- Elvira Faccio de Espinosa, who 8aid that the operation was carried ouC in
Calamar municipality, where there is an airport of the same name.
_ During the operation a amall HK-1017 plane and two Ranger station wag~~ns
were seized.
The arrested pereona were identified as Julio Jimenez Ttosado, Mario Feliciano
Lopez, Gabriel Martinez Camacho, William Daby, Walter Franklin and Amilcar
Rafael Armero.
It was reported that two of the arrested persons are U.S. nationals.
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DIiS RAIDS I,ARG~: COCA PLANTATION
I3~gotu EL ~SP~CT11DOf2 in ~panish 10 Jan 79 p 13-A
(Textj Members of the DAS (Administrative Department of Security] Judicial
Police Division discovered, at a site, in Meta Department, a coca plantation
of 3,5?3 Plants~ that is to say, bushes whose leaves constitute the raw mater- -
ial for producing cocaine.
Ttie ~ignificant di~covery took place last M~nday in the "Guacamayas or La
Venadita" ctrip, Puerto Lleras ,jurisdiction, on land belonging to the
"Gor~ona" farm.
iJeur the plantation the DAS agents found a cocaine paste processing laboratory
- which was operating from some straw huts. The finding of this laboratory is
e~pecia.lly significant in the official struggle against narcotics production
rznd trafficking.
_ According to the participants in the oper~tion, the 3,573 plants which con-
~tituted the plantation had been explo~ted twice before, that is to say, the
narcotics tr~ffickers were going to harvest the leaves fo r the third time. _
'l~o per~ons whose indentities remained u~ndisclosed were detained. Aa far as
ttie pluntution is conccrned, it was destroyed. -
it is worth notir~g that this is the first time that officials have detected a
cocu pluntation in the eastern plains (Llanos Orientales] of the size of the
one t'ound in the 3urisdiction of Puerto I,leras, a fact which indicates that
ciru~ Lraffickcr~ have decided to make use of those lands to raise their crops
and kcep away from the Colombian southwest regions where production of the
bush has been traditicnal.
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~t,ituLcd thc plantation discovered in F'uerto Lleras, Meta, by the DA5
Juciiclul Police Division. It is the first time that a coca crop of this
size has been found in the plains. As is known, the bush's leaves are the raw
material for producing cocaine.
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MARIHUMIA S~IZ~D, NO ARRESTS IN MAGDAL~:NA .
I3ngotn ~L ~:.",P~CTAbOR in Spanish 6 Jan 79 p 1-A, f~-A
[Arti.clc b,y Uli lo Acevedo 5ilva)
[TexL) ;nntu Murttt, 5 Jan--Special antinarcotics units of the Magdalena DAS
[AclministraLive Uepartment of Securityj cnnfiscated 14,000 kg of marihuana in
tt?c Ma~dalenu Depurtment today during a special operation near I~a Gran Vias a
roud lr.aclSr~~ to ttie ~ierra Nevada in Sants Marta.
'f'hc :eizurc of the 1~E,000 k~ of the drug resulted from several investig~tive
ateps 3.mplemented by the Magdalena DAS which culminated in the confiscation
of 201 packages of marihuana already pressed and reac~y for export.
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The secret organization's sectional chief, Capt Policarpo Garrido Alvarez
(ret), told EL ESPECTADOR that no one was arrested during the action against
the narcotics traffickers: apparently the prPsence of the marihuana-
confiscating patrol was detected.
]t wa~ revealed that the marihuana was found about 50U m~ters from the La
Gran Via jurisdiction highway in the sector leading to the Sierra IJevada.
Tt~c 1~i,000 k~; of the drug were incinerated at the confiscation site in +.h~
~re~ence of the militury and judicial officials of this section of the countr,,. _
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