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NARCqT~C:S AND DAN~EROU5 QRUGS
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JPRS L/8824
= 19 December 1979
WORLDWIDE REPORT ~ -
; NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
(FOUO 53/79)
_ CONTENTS PAGE
ASIA
- INDIA -
Briefs ~
Man Carrying Opium Held 1
JAPAN
Brief s
" Arrest of Amphetamine Dealers 2 =
MALAYSIA
- Fivefold Increase in Pric~ of Heroi.n, Opium
(NEW STRAITS TIMES, 27 Oct 79) 3
- Drug Seizures, Arrests, Trials, Sen~ences _
(Various sources, various dates) 4
Life Sentence
Heroin Offense
American Gets Life -
Heroin Possession
Opium Confiscated
Opium Case Acquittal
Theft by Addict
HEroin in Car -
' Heroin Sentence
Opium Seized
PAKISTAN -
Brief s
_ Hashish Recovered g
Opium Seized 9
_ - a - [III - WW - 138 FOUO) .
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- CONTENTS (Continued) Page
Three in Charas Case 9
~ Four Held for Opium S
900 Grams of Charas Seized 10 -
Foreigners Held 10
PAPUA NEW GUINEA �
Brief s
Drug Traffic to Australia 11
PHILIPPINES _
- Police Destroy Big~est Marihuana Plantation :
- (BULLETIN TdDAY, 23 Nov 79j 12
- Briefs
Anti-Marihuana Campaign 14 -
- SINGAPORE
Narcotics Trials, Sentences REported
(Various sources, various dates) 15
- Smuggler Hanged '
~ Trafficker Executed
_ Opium Fine ~
- Morphine Charge
SOUTH KOREA =
Briefs -
Hiroppon Smugglers 17 _
THAILAND
Phayao Governor Discusses Narcotics Prablem
(Sanya Palauatwichai Interview; SIAM RAT, 8 Oct 7~)..... 18
Regional Police Commander Interviewed on Trafficking in North
(Surachit Pa~.yarachun~Interview; SIAM R?,T, 15 Oct 79)... 19
Marihuana Seized at Don Muang Airport
(DAO SIAM, 15 Oct 79) 22 _
3 Lao Su Still Active in North
(SIAM RAT, 10 Oct 79) 23 "
Lack of Coordination Inhibits Drug Suppression
- (SIAM RAT, 19 Oct 79).~ 24 _
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CONTENTS (Continued) ~age
Brief s
Surin Island Rehabilitation 25 ~
CANADA
Briefs
Marihuana Seizure in Montreal 26
EAST EUROPE
HUNGARY _
Briefs
Opium Seized 27
_ LATIN AMERICA
COLOMBIA
Marihuana's Medicinal Properties Touted
. (EL SOL DE rSEXICO, 25 Nov 79) 28
. COSTA RICA �
Briefs
Cocaine Arrests ~0 _
Drug Ring Uncovered 30
MEXICO
Traffickers Bury DIPD Agents Alive
~ (EL SOL DE MEXICO, 3 Oct 79) 31
Briefs
Marihuana in Tank Trucks 32
O~aca Shootout 32
Traffickers Seized in Chiapas 32
- Marihuana Seized in Puebla 32
- NICARAGUA
- Brief s
Marihuana Burned 34
PANAMA
Briefs
- Trafficker Arrested 35
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CONTENTS (Cantinued) Page
NEAR EAST A1~1D NORTH AFRICA
IRAN
Revolution's Opposition to Addiction Surveyed
(Seyyed Ahmad Seyyed Taheri; KEYHAN, 14 Nov 79)......... 36 -
~ Ways of Curbing Opium Addiction Reviewed
(KEYIiAN, 15 Nov 79)........... 39 '
WEST EUROPE
9 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMATIY
Federal Justice Official Concerned Over Drug Trade ~
(FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE, Nov 79) 45
FINLAND
Official Cites Need for Separate Helsinki Drugs Police -
(UUSI SUOMI, 5 Oct 79) 47 "
Police Official Discusses Drug Problem, Enforcement _
- (Jarmo Luuppala; WSI SUOMI, 5 Oct 79) 49 -
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FRANCE
Briefs
Heroin Seizure 54
TURKEY
T.nstructor Notes Increased D~ug Abuse Among Youth
(DUNYA, 7 Nov 79) 55
Brief s
Heroin Seized 56
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INDIA
BRIEFS
~ MAN CARRYING OPIUM HELD--Tiruchi, Nov. 6--Police on Tuesday arrested
Sulaima.n, a resi3ent of Palakharai, near here, and seized opium, cash
- of Rs. 23,000 and a dagger from him. He was about to catch a flight to
Madras. ~Text~ (Ma3ras THE HINDU in English 8 Nov 79 p 13~
CSO; 5300 _
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BRIEFS -
ARREST OF AMPH~TArIINE DE~LERS--Tokyo, 22 Nov (KYODO)--Police have
arrested 210 suspected amphetamine dealers and users, including a 15-
year-old junior high school girl, and seized six kilograms of the drug
worth yen 1.8 billion (dollar 7 million) in a major crackdown on drug
_ smuggling from South Korea. Among the traffickers and users were 180
members of 16 underworld organizations and six taxi drivers, police
said. They said Park Ro Sik, South Korean leader of the smuggling ring,
brought some 100 kilograms of amphetamines into Japan over the past
three years. The former senior member of a major Japanese gangster =
group slipped into South Korea in 1977 and has been at large since,
police added. They said the girl, heavily dependent on amphetamines,
lived with a gangster in Osaka. [Text] jTokyo KYODO in English no time
given 22 Nov 79 OW]
CSO: 5300 -
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MALAYSIA
FIVEFOLD INCREASE IN PRICE OF HEROIN, OPIUM
Kuala Lumpur NEW STRAITS TIMES in English 27 Oct 79 p 1
[Text] ~~EM~`~.. Fri.- Drug addicts here
are switcr~ing to what doctors describe
as the "killer method" in, getting their
kick. _ ~
They are now injeeting opi~,~m solutions into
their bloodetreams, which doctora eaid could
lead to instant death.
State CID Chiei 9upt.
;B.D. Henry said police
had detained a man and
recovered a ayringe
filled with a eolution of,
opium.
' There were aleo tracee
of reaidue.
The solution was pre�
pared by atirring opium
in boiling water untii
most of it disaolved.
A doctor eaid taking
the solution wan like in-
troducing sand into the
~bloodatream.
' Addicts are said to de-
rive a bigger kick trom
this method - if they
survive.
Police are aleo work-
ing on the theory that the
"killer method" wae
adapted becauae of the ~
- ehortage aknd hi~h pric~
of druge,
~tr F~,ens,~r~� id th~
prie'~~`~o(' hez~rir~'8n+a
~ oplum h~?d lfl;preased `
Yive-Po1d.~ . . ~ r ~ -
, He aald a etra~3wf her-,
oln and a amall packet of
re~i?red o ium
whfc6 w'ere aoId ata;l a
few years ago now coet
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_ "Heroitt ia also very
heavily ~adulterated with -
a harml8ea white
~owder. The actual
amount o! heroin may
only be 20 per cent," he
said.
CSO: 5300
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DRUG SEIZURES, ARRESTS, TRIALS, SENTENCES ~
Life Sentence
Kuala Lumpur NEW STRAITS TIMES in English 2 Oct 79 p 6
( Text ] p~~G Mon. - The "I teel sorry that~ ]Yfohamed Noor told the -
Aigh COt~t here today ~meoae as young as you court that a Penang Port
sentenced taetory are ehould become a Commission policeman,
worker Beh ToCk drug addic~t. I hope qo~i Eacik Zanurl bin Ha-
Kh~on, 28, to life im- ~11 g~o for proper treat- shim, acting on informa�
ri~onmAnt for drug ~��at, the ~ud~e eaid. w~ 8U~
~hds
the
nm
raltickin ~ I~' Aimer Singh, for
Beh ple ded guilty to ~h, said hla elient had tlaetic b~ with a
carrying 238.8gm oi hero- ~ made uae of bype o- p a8�
- in at the Pengkalxn Sul- ple who had promised When Encik Zanuri
tan Abdul ` Halim ferry him "lree emokea" of the identified himaelf, Beh
= terminal in Butterworth ~B if he could carry it trled to eacape but was
- on July 26, laet year Gurun in Kedah to arreated with the help of
about ]..SO p.m. p~g� a police,constable. In the
Pesaing aentence, Mr ~tate Legal Advieor bag waa a plaatic packet
Jieetice (3unn Chit Tuan ~ n c i k H a r i d a r b: n containing the drug.
eaid lBeh had committed
a "very aerious" oKence
for which Parliament
had paseed a law impoe-
ing the death ienteace or �
life tmprisonment.
"I take into conaidera-
tion the plea; by your �
cow~eel that~ you are a
= 8rab otfeader and aiso
thst you are remor~el~il.
Heroin~Offense
Kuala Lumpur NEW STRAITS TIMES in English 3 Oct 79 p 8 -
dOSO~iE BARU, ~ian at i1.b0 p.m. on Lfm C6en Hoe~ al�
_ [ T e x t] T u e s. - A e o f- Feb. ll. � 1e6~ t~t ~e areert�
feeshop prop rletor ~slons,awtet prest� ~~r ~peotor "
was sentenoed today dent Mr. Ee ~Idn 8ens,' asrleel ~ohamed
to t6ree and a half eaid he wl~o imposing A~,pd~ ~ llec~ fn 6b
ears' all and or- t6e minlmnm ~entence ev[denoe.
3' ~ allowed nndar the lsw ee wid t6e dru~s
dered to be~1 ven efx aut o! ooiufdentton tor were tound behlqd the
strokes oi tTie rotan ~hameuddln's wKe and sbo~, u
Q o r 1 1 1 e g a 1 thres c611dren. ~~o ~~~p~
poseeselon of beroin. ~~ardfng� tbe de� ~g~p g~ y, g~r, sub� '
8 6 a m s u d d 1 n teaoe s allegatlon that m~~ ~t was un-
Ya6aya, 28, was found ~~nuddln Wss "nx� ltlcely the polfce ot- -
plas~tlQ
t bes
of hergoln ~dpit bwas ~61~~
un muoL 4e~ouDle~Lo "rix"
w e 1 S h t ng 12 . 8 8� ~ely considerlag !6e a~s~o u w~lth a
grammesathisshop at a~raum~tenoe~. d~s Q~6e� p
Peksn Atr Bslo1. PN~- Defanoe oouiuel. Mr.
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American Gets Life -
Kuala Lumpur NEjd STRAITS TIPiES in English 16 Oct 79 p 1
[Text]
~ A,IaOR 3TAR, Mon. - Barakbah said he was toc the prosecution to poae the death penalty, _
A m e r 1 c 8 n b u e i- satiaf[ed from the prose- ~.prcve that the accueed eaid it wae the only way
nessmAn David Allen cution evidence that Dun= wae the owner of the to ~erve ae a doterrent to
_ DunCan alia~ Gordon can commltted t}~e of-1 dru~ ~ would�be iratfickera
Frieraon Goldsby, 33, tence by traniporting the ' I~ would ba aufticie:?t lrom overeeas. �
was . eenten~ed to life druga lrom Haadyai in to convict an aocused ii �Dun~c~a'~ couneel, IVtr
i rieo two of four wooden boxea, the proaecution could ~rljnandan 8tngh $har,
n?p l~tet}t Bdld., p#'~. He added Duncan's ac� prove that he wae in con= aakecl the Qourt to lmpose
dered to receive eix tions from the time he trol of and in poaseeeion the altmmative aentence -
atrokea of the rota~t l~y ~..;~sr~rivefl at Chang~loon i� a of the druga. of �life imprleonment be�
- the H[igh Court here af- ' Thai bus from Haa a1 ~"No Prudent rnan will cauee Duncan wae only
ter he wae f~und gvilty - including taklng~he accept Duncan'e denial 29 when he committed
of tr a f
l
ic k ing in 1,847 boxes to t he Cub toms that he had anything ta the otfence.
- grammes of gan a, base - ahowed that the do with the drug~ found
_ 683.86 grammee jof ~xes belonged to him. in the lsoxes," tfie ~udge
morphine aitd 953.21 T h e r e w a e a 1 s o eald.
grammea of heroin. e~dence to ahow that Given a c~aance
The cou:t had been D~can knew that the -
told earHer that Dunean druge were inside two of .:ge_ad@ed� he wa~ v-
the four boxes. ~
concealed the druga in ing Duncatf a ch'ance by
the bottom of two wooden A ehaa~ce not impoaitlg the death
frames ueed for mount- ~enalty. =
ing two Thai theatrica? Mr JusttCe S3+ed Agil ~ Mr 3uatice Syed A~i1
maske and carried them B~'alcbah saId Duncan Barakbah ordered t5e -
in two wooden boxes h$d denied that the boxea eentence -~rhich in this
through the Changloon belonged to him or that case is effectively 20
immigration and Cus� he had any knowledge of yeara - to aammence
toma checkpoint between the druga tound in the from Aug. 38, 1976, tho,
2.45 p.;m, and 4.15 p.m. on tWO boxes. date of Duncan's arreat. ~
Aug. 26, 1976. Under the drug trf= EErlier, DPP Encik
In hia judgment, Mr ' ficking law, the judge Abdul Malik HaJi INhak `
J u s t i c e 3 y e d A~ i l e~d, if waa not neceaeary 1n aaking the edurt to im-
Heroin Possession
Kuala Lumpur NEW STRAITS TIMES in ~nglish 16 Oct 79 p 10
[Text]
JOHORE BARTJ, Mon. ~
F3usineseman Atan Abdul
Rahman, 26, wes toda sen-
tenced to 10 montha' ,~ail in '
the Sesefone Court here ~or
posaeseton ot nlne tubee of
herola. - -
He admitted having the
heroin woighing 0.29 gl~.m -
- at Jalan Tenie at 9.30 p~'on
Feb. l laet year. �
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Opium ConfiscatPd
Kuala Lumpur NEW STIt~1ITS TIrIES in Enfilish 17 Oct 79 p 1
~-~~~X~ ~
ALOR STAFZ,'I'uea. - chaee. ~rty led by Customs Of� eatate road neer Bedon`g.
Otficera irom the Cus- The opium, wrapped ~j~r Mohamed 8ldique However, about one
t o m s p r e v e n t i v e in 39 plaetic packagee, btn Abdul Karim laid an ;and a half mtlee !n, the
� branch ~ere recovered recuvered from a car ~~h'at tha toothill of 'car akidded and we~it into
82.7 kilogram:new of be~ng a Kedsh regla- ~}{~n Jerai, facing tbe a canal.
raw opium horn~,~.~r tration number which A~ :~t~,~g~yt~ryy~}~, The drlver came out of
+ was travelling south ~n r~ y~t ~~~t & aai the car and awa3n acroee
~`lter tt, afght-~4i~~' hom Alor 8tar. fofTowin~ a tip�oft. ' the rauddy 60-loot wide
chase near Bedong, 2 ~ C u e t o ra a 8 u p e r- .~~r ~,ahour wait, canal before disappear� -
milea from here. to- intendent ~ncik Ahmad ~eY ~aw ~~ar 8ttlAg the !ng into the eecondary
day. It ia believed to be b(n Said told reportera descr~ption ~ren ~eod� jungle.
- worth $1.88 millioa in here t~at the aelzure was eouth. '1`he ofttcere The ofticera found
the blackmerket. the biggest ever made by ggve chasc+. � aeveral packagee hidden
The driver oi the car the Kec~ah Custome in re- Encik Ahmad ~aid 1n a compartmsnt be-
- eecaped after he landed it cent yeare. that after eight milee, the ~een the rear ,eat and
in a canal during the He eaici a Your�man ~gr turned left into an the boot ot the car.
Opium Case Acquittal
- Kuala Lumpur NEW STRAlTS TIMES in English 19 Oct 79 p 19 ,
_ [Text] _
K iJ A G A L U M P U R, section 27 (7) of the Dan- The Judge said the viewring.
Thurs. - The High eroue Druga~ Ordlnance guard, who was present Fie aaid at 2 a.m. the
~ Court today acquitted ~ad not been complied when Mr. Tan opened the ~etoma officer, Enclk
- two businessmen, WithbyMA9eecurityof- box, thought !t waa Mohamed Salleh
Chan Chin Chon, 40, ticers and the Cuatoma. opium and alerted a Cus- Mohamed Iea, decided to
g He said it was unfair toma ofticer. take a eample of what he
of Sabah and Ong Ghee for them to open the He aaid the aircratt had eeen. He latc+r went to
Seng, 48, of Singapore, three boxea, froZn which i,~,~ not due for flight for the Cuetoma Head-
on a drug trafficking the opium wae recovered, a~ux ane and a half 9~~era in Brickilelde
charge without calling without the prebence of hours and t~ere wa~ am- ~d it was at ;0 am.
for their defence. Chan� and Ong. le time for the Customa when the Cuetoma de-
Mr. Justlce Harun Ha- ~tlining the case, the ~o move into action cided it waa ogium and
ehlm held that the proae� Judge said there was He aleo eatd that it took samples for teeting. ~
evidence that Chang and
cutlo~ had failed to make wae not unuaual to call in Mr. J~uetice Iiarun
Ong checked in at the
- out a prima tacie case aasengere adding that said for aome unknown
MA3 counter for a fli ht reason, the Cuetoma
against them. ~ ad thie been done, it
The Judge had earlier to Kota Kinabalu t at ~,~,ould have been clear to handed the caee over 20
heard submissions of "no night. whom the boxes really the police. He eaid thie
case to anawer" by de- He said there were belonged. was unuaual becauee the
fence counael and a re 1 five iecea of luggage, !n- Cuatoms had the power -
P Y ~ The Judge eald the
b DPP Mr. Mah Wen clud ng three apple box- to act.
S boxea were inatead kept
~�,ai ea, on which excess bag- in a atron room at tfie The Judge said he did
Chan was re re- g8ge had been paid. $ not know under what law =
g p He eaid when the bag- ~rPort an at 11.15 p.m.,
sented by Mr. Lim 8oh and for what oKence the
gage carrie in, Securit Mr. Tan and hie col-
Wah and Mr. Bhagwan Y two were arrested.
~ Slngh while Ong by Mr. officer Mr. Darry Tan, leagues had a private
R. Raj asingam and Mr. not knowing that the ex-
- K.C.Cheah. ceas baggage had been !
Both men were, how- paid for, decided to de- !
- ever, re-arrested under tain the three boxee after ~
the Emergency Or- being told that they con, ,
dinance 1989. tained tapea, whtch� �to
They had fur the past him were . comTnercial
four days been trled on a itema.
joint charge oi traffick- Mr. Tan then decided
~ng in 45.42 kilograma to .check the boxee and
(about 100 Ik~s) o! raw took them to the ware- -
opium at thP Subang In� houee. He opened one and
ternational Airport at 10 saw tapea but by acci- -
p.m. on Aug. 21, 1977. dent, he diacoverd other
In hia judgment, Mr. packagea and later some ~
Juatice Harun held that black subatance. ~
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Theft by Addict
_ Kuala 13elait BORNEO BULL~TIN in ~nglish 6 Oct 79 p 20 -
- ['lext~ KUCHING.- Ayouth the parts from his fa-
witl~ a$30 a day drug ;her, Mr Soo Oh Loke,
h,ibit stole $1,000 worth t~lias Encik Moliammad
of motor car spare parta bin Abdullah, last
from his father's work- month and then selling
shop and then sold them them to Mr Han Hiun
for $200, the Kuchinq of Chop Pheck
District Court was told. Nam, also in Yadungan
- But the yottth, 21-year� Road, for $200,
old Stephen Soo Tai ptSr Chan said he x~as
- Ching, alias Suhaili bin jailing Soo for his own
Abdullah, of Padungan g~d and hopec~ it might
_ Road, Kuching, will find cure him of his drug ad� -
- i2 hard to get dzugs in diction.
- the next six months -he ~o said he, had bee~
- h=d, been jailecl for that a drug addict for six
perial by magistrate' Mr ycars and l~e 'had been
_ Chan Kay Poh. � forced to resort to steal-
- Soo admitted stealing ing to kecp up with his
$30 a day heroin habit.
He told Mr Chan he
had wanted to be admitt-
� ad to the Sarawak Mental
Hospital for treatment
but a doctor there had
told him to wait until a _
- planned drug mhabilita-
- tion centre onenecl.
Inspector Jamal Mo-
_ hamad, pmsecuting, said
Soo had been employed
in his father's business,
- .r,~.4?~, ~v~?'+~,~`i~Y'+
.!~i+~~~~e`.~iv~+~6'.' _
Heroin. in Car.
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Kuala Belait BORNEO BULLETIN in English 6 Oct 79 p 22
[Text] KUCHING. - When Ngiaw wss fined ~500
police officers stopped after he told the court
and searched a car eaz- he was a drug addict. _
lier this year they found Inspector Y.Z. Chen,
heroin on a cushion on Prosecuting, eaid Police
the front seat, the Ku� Constable Charlie Ong
- ching District Court and other ~officers saarch-
heard last week. ~ Ngiaw s car in Ban
Before senior magis- Hock Road and although .
Ngiaw was not carrying
= trate Madam Agnes K. ~y heroin it was on top -
L. Wong was Ngiaw Mee of a cushion on the dri-
Lee, 27, of the main ba- ver's seat.
- zaar Kuching, who ad� Insp Chen said the of-
mitted possessing 0.0624 ficers had not seen the -
grams of heroin in Ban herain at first because
Hock Road, Kuching, on Ngiaw had been sitdng
July 18. vr~ it.
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Heroin Sentence
Kuala I3elait BORNEO BULLETIN in English 20 Oct 79 p 4 '
- [Text ] KUCHING. - A Magistrate Mr Chan
lawyer told a Kuching Kay Poh jailed Yao -
Diatrict Courc ma6iotrate for u yesr for the ,
on Tueaday da~t week a offence laat year, 10
~ drug addict had pleaded montiu for the February
guilty co posseesing he- 2 offence and eix mon~hs
roin becauae he hoped Eor tfie June 9 offence,
ha coutd find a cure for the sentences to run'
his addiction. concurr�itly.
Mr Mthony Tai waa Mr Tai said the
pleading far leniency for a~ount in each case was
21-year-old Yeo Eng ~I.y, em~l and wae only
Lee, unemployed, of Se- m~t for Yeo s own use; �
buyau Flate, Ban Hcek he esid Yeo needed re- ~
Road, Kuciung, accused habilitation i~ut becauee - -
of three chsrges of p~- there was no rehsbilita-
eesamg heroin. tion centre he sbould be -
Two of the offences ~nt to Sara~vxk Menta~l
were said to have been Hoepital fc+r treatment. _
committed in the flats
on October 12 lait ycar But Mr Chs~n said -
and February 2 this eendip6 Yeo to the hos- -
year and the other near pital would not do any
the Yu Onn buildin in gaod ond. wauld create
Ban Hock Road on f
une ~talX
taffburden f~r hos- -
- Opium Seized _
Kuala Belait BORNEO BULLETIN in English 27 Oct 79 p 16
_ [Text] MIRI. - Police claim Inspector Lu Hie King
they found a large quan� applied for another date
tity of opium, and uten� for mention of the case
sils which they beliave because inveatigatians~are
wero vsed to smoke it, still prceeeding
when they raided an ilb chemist's reporc is also
- ~ gal squat~er's home in awaited; this will deter- -
River Road, Miri, early mine whether or not the
on the morning of Octo� aubstance seized is prepar-
_ ber 13. ed opium and how much
The sequel was a court tliere is of it.
- appearance last week for Magistrate Mr William
65-year-old One Yun Lee Say Beng adjaurned -
Chew, provisionally char� the case to Ja.nuary 14
: ged with opiwm posses� and released One on $500
sion. bail on his awn surety,
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1'AKI S'lAN
BRI~FS
HASILISI~I P~~COVERFD--Hyderabad, Nov 7--The Martial Law authori~ies recovered
two maunds of hemp and seven liters of locally made liquor in a raid conduc-
ted over a narcotic den in Sanghra district on Monday, An oLficial announce- _
ment here said that the owners of the den have been arrested and ~he case
is to be tried by a Su~nary Military Court. Meanwhile t-he local i~lartial =
Law authorities have arrested 16 persons from a gambling den in tlie city
Its 1720 and five watches have been recovered from their possession. The
arrested persons will be tried in a blilitary Court. Tlie Military CoLirt -
Thattaa tried six persons on the charges oF cattle theft yesterday. Four
persons were awarded one year rigorous imprisonment and ten lashes eacti,
whereas two persons were awarded one year RI each.--APP ~Text~ ~QueLLa
- 13ALUCHISTAN TTMGS in ~nglish 8 Nov 79 p 4l �
OPIUM SEIZED-~The Militia has seizad seven maunds of opium valuing aboul-
Rs 240,000 at Sambaza Checkpost on Pak-Afghan border, abou~ 150 miles from
Zhob, reports APP. The opium was being smuggled out oF the country in a
vehicle, The driver and the vehicle have been L-aken into custody and
- referred to Summary Military Court for trial. ~Text~ ~Quetta BALUCHISTAN
TIMES in English 11 Nov 79 p 4~ _
THRFB IN CHARAS CASE--D.G. Khan, Nov. 8--Three of the five residents of
Rajanpur who were arrested following a raid by an M.L. inspection team
for having 265 grams of charas in their possession, have been sentenced
to various terms of rigorous imprisonment by a sununary military caurt. _
Moha~nad Ashiq, Mohd. Nawaz and MohaIIm~ad Shafi have got a year's, six
months' and 15 days R.I., respectively, while Mohauaaad Saleem and Mohammad
- Naseem have been acquitted for lack of proof. ~Text~ ~Lahore THL' PAKISTAN -
~ TIMES in English 9 Nov 79 p 9~
FOUR HELD FOR OPIUM--Gujranwala, Nov. 12--The police and excise departments _
yesterday made a successtul raid and arrested four persons namely Mohammed
_ Sultan, Arshad, Thomas Masih and Asif under Shariat ordinance 3-4-26 of
1979 for illegally keeping and selling opium and charas. They had a den in
Urdu Bazar, Gujranwala City. However, Azam, the leader, made gc~d his
escape. All the four accused were forced to march the main streets with -
- their faces blackened. The police have recovered 6200 gtams of charas and
2600 grams of opium with a cash of Rs. 521/- as sale.--APP ~Text~ ~Peshawar
KYBER r1AIL in English 13 Nov 79 p 3~ _
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900 CRM1S 0~ CFIARl1S SrT7~D--The Excise Staff seized 900 grams of charas
From I.qbal 'I'own and arrested one person under Excise Act on Sunday.
~xcise Sub-Inspector, Mian Riazuddin received information that some per-
sons were indulging in illegal narcotics business in the area. Accordingly
a raid was conducted and P1iaz alias Marki was arrested. [Text] [Lahore -
THE PAKISTAN TIMES in English 26 Nov 79 p 7]
FOR~IGNERS IiELD--The local police have arrested foreigners from a local
hotel and recovered from their possession, two-and-a-half seers of "c}~aras'
worth R5. 1 l~ilch. They are, Hauyan Bora and Hiller of West Cermany and
~ Walter of ltal.y. The name of fourth accused is not known. Cases liave _
been registered against them under Martial Law regulations and further ~
investigation is in progress. Similarly, in another case, ~olice have
arrested two persons, namely Waheed Khalid and Bashir, for allegedly
_ possessing aoout 40 bottles of country-made liq~ior. Cases have been
registered against the accused under the Shariat Laws. [Text] [Lahore
THE PAKISTAN TIMES in English 17 Nov 79 p 5]
CSO: 5300
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PAPUA NEW GUINEA
BRIEFS
' DRUG TRAFFIC TO AUSTRALIA--Papua New Guinea is moving to restrict the use
of its capital Port Moresby as a transit point on the ;irug traffic route
- from Southeast Asia to Australia. In answering a series of questions in -
- parliament, the Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr Ebia Olewale, said narcotics
detection measures were being increased to deal with the problem. He said
United States and Australian customs officials had recently conducted a
drug detection training course in Port Moresby for police and customs
officers. The next step would be the formation of a national drug bureau.
Mr Olewale said Papua New Guinea's customs department had established
direct contacts with Japan, Indonesia, Singapore and Hong Kong and wns
� r.eceiving intelligence reports on drug shipments which might be passing
through Papua New Guinea. [Text] [OW031545 Melbourne Overseas Service in
English 1230 GMT 3 Dec 79 OW]
CSO: 5300
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- PHILIPPINES
POLICE DESTROY BIGG~ST MARIHUANA PLANTATION
P4anila BULLETIN TODAY in English 23 Nov 79 p 48 -
- [Text]
NAGA C1TY, Nov. in a report t~ Brig.
~ 22 - A five-h e c t are Gen. Bienvenido Felix,
niarijuana plantatton be- CANU chief and Task
lieved to be a pazt of Foree . Bagong Buhay
the "Bicol-Cavite con- commander, ~vlajar De
- nection" being main- Lizo i3entifiecf the sus-
tained by a bigtime pects as Onofre Asal y
dr.ug syndicate linked Marinana, Rodrigo Lo-
- ~ to a su~bversive move- zano y Lumen, and
ment was destroyed by Henry Lozano y Lumen,
joint elements ~f the all of barangay Agaaao~
- lacal PC command here Ragay.
and the constabulary 1'he report said four
anti-narcotics unit (CA- others believed to be
NU) in a sur~rise raid NPA runners and finan-
oonducted at sitio Nao- ciers were ~able to es-
~ ming, barangay Agao- c,3pe from the PC cor-
ao~ Ragay, Camarines don.
Sur, over the weekend. The raid, accarding
- The plantation, situa- to Major Calllong, com-
ted in mountainous ter~ mander of the CANi3
rain in Ragay town, 4th regional command
was said to be un- based in Imus~ Cavite,
der the protection ot Was a follow-up o~rera�
the New Peo,ple's Army tion against the activi-
' (NPA) operating in the ~~s of a drug ~yndicato
operating in Cavite and
area. the Bicol regIon.
The raiders cam� Earlier, oiperatives of
- posed of CANU opera- the Cavite PC-INP
- tives headed by Maj. an~3 CANU arrested '
Jose de Lizo~ Maj. Jua- three persons, including
nito Calilong, and 2nd two women pushera nt
Lt. Eul'emio Bui1~iR ana ed from them ~everal
elements of the 243rd thousands~ of peso~
PC com,pany led by w~orth of dried marijna- -
Ca~t, Oscar Abalos ap � na leaves in a raid at
prehended three sus� barangay Bulihan, Si-
- ~ected marijuana culti- lang. /
vators a.nd seized an es- ~ .
timated P300,000 worth
of tl~e illegal planls dur�
- in~.the raid.
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MARI~UANA. ConstabulAry chiet ahCi INP dl- -
tector-getwF~~ A~?J.~Gea. Fidel �Ramos (IePE~~ ins-
pects -the tho{~e~ ot peaos worth ot drled
marljuana leaveg netzed earller by elements ot
the (;avlte PGIN~P and CANU led by Maj. Jua-
nito Calilong in a rald at barangay BWlhan,
/ Silang. Also in photo are L~ Col. Zoslmo Ao- '
- n,gan, Cavile PC commander and IN~P ougerln-
tendent, P/Maj. Ro~'ei Pureza, t#~e commaad'a ~
community relations oif~cer, and the suspected ,
- i woman pusher identified as Soledad Ebuenca y !
~ Macapagal. (DEL) '
CSO: 5300
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PHILIPT'TNES
BRIErS
. ANTI-MARI~~UANA CAMPAIGN--The government is giving a cash reward to anyone
_ ~ who can give information leading to the seizure of marijuana plantations
in the Country. Former AFP [Armed Forces of the Philippines] chief oE -
staff, Lt Gen (Hilario Cruz), commissioner of the Bureau of Intelligence
and Investigation, made the announcement today as the government intensi-
fied its drive against the proliferation of marijuana cigarettes. (Cruz)
said the cash award is equivalent to 10 percent of the total value of
the seized shrubs. [Text] [OW070157 Manila PNA in English'~830 GMT
6 Dec 79 OW] ,
CSO: 5300
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SINGAPORE
NARCOTICS TRIALS, SENTENCES REPORTED
Smuggler Hanged
Kuala Lumpur NEW STRAITS TIMES in English 6 Oct 79 p 28
[Text]
- SIN(3APORE, Frl. - A p~s sald Wong, a
82-year-old cook waa cook, appealed againnt
Chan~gi prieon
for
amug waectnurned down
both
gliag dru8ro into Singa- timee. He refwed to eeek.
p�re� ' clemency irom Pre~ldent
A government otticfal. Benjamin aheares, al-
eaid Wong Kee-Chin wae thoug~? he had the rlght
convicted of drug amug� to do so, they eaid.
gling oa Nov. II, 1Y77; The 8rat two people to
, nearly one year after he be hanged under the antt-
.wae arreated while at- ~g law were Teh sin
- temptfng to smuggle 188 Tong, a labourer and Teo
grama (4.88 ouncee) of Hock 9eng. a rtevedore.
vv
= heroin into the bland na- Both overe iane,
tion. executed in Ap 1 and
. Officialo eaid Won July last year.
was attem ting to bring a the 12 peaple awatt-
the dru ps in from ~g execution - two are
Malayaia g women - eight have had
their appea] diamiseed.
Wong was the tMnd ~e other four are pend-
drug offettder to be ~g on the Prlvy Council.
hanged in 8ingapore, Wong's second appeal
noted for ita tough anti- wae reiected by the Privy
- narcotice lawe. ~~~jl. - iJF~L
In S~
apore, pereone ~
' convicted of poeeeeaing ~
or trafficklng in more
than one-half onnce of
heroin or one ounce of
morphfne face the haag-
man. ,
At least 12 people con- '
victed of drug oHenses
etill are atvaiting execu-
_ tioa
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Trafficker Executed �
Singapore THE STRAITS TIMES in English 20 Oct 79 p 13
[ T e x t] a w~[.n~ l.ee sm t~ree m we Pe~v~ coan-
Kheon6 (.~ve), Z!, cll.
wse 6~n ed st the ~p~~~S .
t~y ~[oartht ~ws
trstttaker t~ be ei~ ~~t��O~ tO
cated onder me M1ea~e dest6 by tyh~e
H9sh CNrt
ot Drap Aek 08 P~,l~�a~..~lh. S)ILu.
Ot t6e ~thet theee, He, was ere~t~ed by
two weee 6aoged la N~~B
- Aprll �nA Jaly last g�~� jD S~
year, snd the mird lh~~ wlm 'N.37 g e[
eseUet fhfe memt6. ~ fa db a~det-
A toty?1 ot L2 etheee -
1~ mes snd two~women H[s s
e~ the
�~a~r'e a~valtlngt tI i Coarwae ~lerei ia
~ ~
� ~pril Iset ~ T6~e,
Ooe 6ae sppesled to
Preeldent 86este4 tor ~b i6~ ~ ~
�~~c �~t Hts sppe~D t~ tbe
~sve ~de~r appesls ~deo~ ~ ~ ~
S li f*e ~oart ot ed doivn. -
- ~ Appe~l sad.
- Opium Fine
Singapore THE STRAITS TIMES in English 20 Oct 79 p 13
~ T ~ X t~ NG YANG HIAN, 56, a]abour- .
er,. was Hned i1,000 by a
ma8lsti'8te~8 CauTt YesterdaY.
tor pass~stng 5.13 g o[ oplum.
He pleaded auil~~ ~t eome
1'he courF
narcotics o[Hcers tound the
drug ia a ilat in Toa Payoh on
Oct 4. Ng was tlned another
f300 w6en he admitted a eec-
ond cbarge ot poeseasEog an
opium-plpe
Morphine Charge
Singapore THE STRAITS TIMES in English 20 Oct 79 p 13
[TeXt ] ONG Ang Huay, 25, was
c6arged ia a magistrate's
court yesterday wlth consum-
ing morph(ne on Oct 8 w~lle
under a two-year"supervlaion
order.
He was rnavicted on A1ov 1
last yeaz tor a drug oHence
and was sub ted to a two-
- cy~ecorded. Bail o[Ni5p000 was
allowed. The case will be men-
tioned on Nw 2.
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SOUTH KOREA
BRIEFS
HIROPPON SMUGGLERS--Pohang--Polic~ raided a hotel in this east coast port
early yesterday morning and held five persons on charges of attempting to
- smuggle 100 million won worth of stimulant drugs called "hiroppon" to Japan.
Police said they confiscated the drug from the five. A sixth person was being
- sought, police said. Police said the group had tried to smuggle the drugs,
- also called "methamphetamine," out of the country by using an American tanker
which was anchoring at the Pohang port. The Korean wife of an American crew
member of the tanker had informed police of the smuggling plan of the six_
persons, investigators said. The arrests of five of the six were made in a
raid on the Beach Hotel at 3:15 a.m., police said. The conf iscated drugs
weighed 14kg, they added. Those arrested were identified as Lee Tae-gu, 31,
" Chong Jong-shik, 39, Chon Song-gil, 37, Chong Kwu-duk, 51, and Chong Im-sun,
27, all with their addresses in Pusan. [Text] [Seoul THE KOREA HERALD in
English 24 Nov 79 p 8]
CSO: 5300
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- THAILAND
PHAYAO GOVERNOR DISCUSSES NARCOTICS PROBLEP�1
Bangkok SIAM RAT in Thai 8 Oct 79 p 3
[Ir_terview with Phayao Governor Sanya Palauatwichai]
[Excerpt] [Question] It is thought that Phayao is an important narcotics
trafficking area. -
[Answer] There must be some because the major route is from Chiang Mai. _
Some comes from Mae Sai, and it crosses over from Thachilek and from Mae
~ Chan. Most of it is apprehended on tour buses in boxes of Maekhong [whiskey],
fruit boxes, and beer boxes. Most of the arrests depend on informants of
mine which are at the Mae Ta check point. In Kamphaengphet they are at the
Salakbat check point. These two stations really do a good.job. At these
stations there are narcotics suppression units, provincial police and special
branch police. These are legally correct. [one phrase illegible] They have
temporary permission of the province governor and they have apprehended a
lot--many millions in Thai money every month. Generally [those arrested]
have been hired l~y someone else. Sometimes it is someone from Mae Sai, a
' big dealer who does not want to do it himself but uses front men and sub-
ordinates. For example, they might send five thousand here and there.
These people do not start things by themselves. The boss is behind the scenes; ,
he doesn't show himself so how can you catch him?
- 814 9
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THAILAND
~
I
REGIONAL POLICE COMMANDER INTER~JIEWED ^N TRAFFICKING IN NORTH
Bangkok SIAM RAT in Thai 15 Oct 79 p 3
[Interview with Police Major General Surachit Panyarachun, commander of
Provincial Police Region 3]
[Excerpts] [Question] What can be done in order to be able to reduce or ~
eliminate narcotics problems which have been accumulating for such a long
time? '
[AnswerJ Well, sir, narcotics and economic crimes are like this. They
~ are the same. They coincide exactly. If we have strict enforcement and ~
a lot of arrests they go down. A few days ago there was a planning con-
ference on blocking points in order to prevent criminals from saying
"Hay! These poli.ce have run out of per diem and out of money and have all '
gone home." For the past 2 days I have been working on a proposal to the
department to have the provinces submit reports on incidents, and if the�re -
_ are blocking points, to have the highway police parCicipate also. The old
plans currently in effect must come to an end. When something happens _
communication must be renewed. I want the provinces to do it next week
when everything should be ready, because the provinces must confer with
the provincial governors. Right now we can't do it directly but must go
~ present a briefing at a meeting chaired by the provincial governor and
then to consolidate into a big plan and send it to the ministry. The min-
istry must approve it and then we can make arrests.
There are many problPms. Very few of our younger generation are absorbed
in seeking knowledge. They are not interested. The more narcotics come
in the more the children are ruined. In Lampang very many are addicted
to marihuana, some use heroin. In Lampang it is serious and it must be
corrected. Teachers and parents are depressed and don't know what to do.
It has spread everywhere. One doesn't know where behavior will break
_ down. This marihuana is bad. Marihuana in the old days wasn't a bad ~
problem. Why is ma.rihuana currently so bad? It must he mixed wi.th some-
thing. I don't know. The children inject it themselves. I am astonished
but they are caught all the time. '~au days ago there was a case here in
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Lampang. I don't understand how this ca_;~ be the fashion. It is sad to
see. It is a sad future for these children. This to me is the bad thing.
There ar~~ lots c~f prevention agencies. There are many police and civilian
suppression organizations. Suppression units are located in Chiang Rai and
Kamphaengphet. In fact it is not correct to blame the localities on this _
issue. I believe that this issue is a basic mission. The localities seize
a lot of narcotics. Two days ago I went with westerners whose sources
t'eported that there would certainly be a shipment worth 5E0,000 baht at
Mae Yao. The westerners, who belong to their narcotics suppression organ-
ization, don't trust us and asked me to go along. So I had to go along. _
I suspected that it would not be the real thing or that they would learn
or see that we were coming in f orce so they would not carry through and
would have to return the money to the westerners. I was not happy about
their having to make the transfer in front of ine. Chiang Mai now is
, really getting bad. There are airplanes to Hong Kong that have tc wait
for a while and which can carry things out. In the future they wi11 be
~ coming together in a joint center in Cliiang Mai and will not use Don Muang
any more. This will open up opportunities, and where opportunities exist _
they will b e used. Some day there will be several fli~hts a day directly
to Hong Kong.
[Question] How do narcotics shipment routes operate, currently?
_ [Answer] Speaking of routes for shipping it in at this time there are -
very many. There is one route in Mae Ai District, Chiang Mai Province
that follow several paths to Chiang Dao and then to Mae Sai in Chiang Rai
Province. They choose what one to use. If one path is bloc?ced they don't
come that way. Right now I feel that the Mae Ai and Fang District routes
are not being used. But previously they were useC a lot. Now they are -
= using a Wiang Kao, i.e. Chiang Saen District, Chiang Rai Province, route.
It is not b locked very mur_h. A lot comes via Mae Hongson Province. It
comes concealed in buse~, boats, and private vehicles, especially heroin
now, which is very hard to discover. Tf there are no tips from double-
crossers, this kind of goods can be concealed anywhere in small amounts. -
It is not like it was in the old days. Opium could ~be captured easily.
Opium, whether raw or cooked, is heavy. Ten kilos of heroin cannot be -
sensed. Besides tips we regularly use the method of decoy purchases, but
this has not been successful. Seizures thathave been made are due to `
~ betrayals among themselves, like that in Fang District a few days ago,
where two policemen were arrested, policemen who were hunting rabbits.
[QuestionJ As far as you know where are the ringleaders, such as Lao Su, -
now?
[Answer] The hill people say that Lao Su is now in Mae Ai. Tt is esti-
mated that he has numerous gun hands protecting him. I have never seen
him but it is said that he comes and goes in disguisey but he had better
be careful. If hi:s followers betray him even a little it will be the end
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of him. No matter how long he hangs around here and wears disguises, such
as putting on whiskers or other similar things, he won't be caught unless
someone betrays him. Recognizing him from photographs is not the way.
[Question] What provinces in the northern region f~ll within the infiltra-
t:Lon zone?
[Answer] rlany provinces Eall within the infiltration zone, in.cluding Chiang
Rai, Lamphun, Phayao, Phrae, Nan, Uttaradit, Phitsanulok, and Phetchabun.
Currently those provinces that can clearly be seen to be in the infiltra-
tion zone are Chiang Rai, at Theung and Chiang Khong dist-ricts, and Phayao,
at Chiang Kham, Chiang Muan, Pong and Theung districts. It is related to
the construction of strategic highways. It is a11 around. -
But there are many provinces that are not in an Internal Security Operations
Command zone. Currently there are two many. In Chiang Mai, Mai Chaem dis-
trict has been attacked seriously seven or eight times, but afterwards this '
area has never been declared an Internal Security Operations Command zone.
_ However, there is a new law coming out now which puts every province into
an Internal Security Operations Command zone divided into levels one, two, ,
- and three.
- Oh! A.lso in Lamphun in Mae Tha district unfortunate incidents are occurring ~
repeatedly. But at this time armed soldiers have been conducting psycholog- ;
_ ical warfare in Hangchat district of Lampang, and thus has made incidents
show up in Mae Chaem district. ,
This is a problem we are working on which is not really a police duty that ;
we are talking about. The Budget Bureau came hei-e 2 or 3 days ago to ask
us how we use budgetary funds in orevention and suppression work. We took '
them to see what was going on in Chiang Rae so they could get the facts. i_
= Regarding infiltration zones or points that have been invaded at this time
the military is trying to have police forces go in and replace them in
- 1980. ~de are still not sure how much capability we have. Whether it is
replacement of forces or what kind of support is provided it still will
. not be enough, because the military are better prepared. Here they want
co do it in 1980. We must make plans in region 3 for each location. '
In fact the infiltration zones have military forces stationed in them super- I
- vising things, and under this policy the military go before us. We only !
wait to provide support. Prasecution of court cases is not done strictly.
They always say some communist terrorists set up bases. Anything that '
~ happens is ar_tributed to communist terrorists. If the police worked like
r_hat, now many cases would ever be prosecuted. I
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THAILAND
MARIHUANA SEIZED AT DON MUANG AIRPORT
~ Bangkok DAO SIAM in Thai 15 Oct 79 p 16
[Text] At 0800 (on the 14th) Mr Chaloei Charuwat was acting in place of -
the head of customs official Do~.i Muang caith Mr Lak Kaeosawetphan the
assistant head of warehouse No 30. Mr. Manot Ringrat, a customs inspector, _
and many customs officials went to the warehouse section of the Thai Inter
~ Company (Thai Airways). They had heard from another official that they
should find a packing crate of the type that would have to be prepared
for packing and shipping; someone had paclced two such crates wil:h cardboard
boxes, and it was thought to be contraband or narcotics which a dealer was
- ' trying to get on board secretly. For this to happen an ai.rline official
had to be involved.
After they learned this the customs officials hiirried to the warellouse -
section and found the tw.~ big packing crates in the expedite section, which
were ready to be loaded on a p].ane at first opportunity. They then used a
fork lift truck to move them out into the warehouse and opened them. In
both crates there taere a total of 36 large cardboard boxes packed tightly,
and when these were taken out, 27 were found to contain marihuana weighing
716 kilograms. The other nine.;boxes contained clothes primarily sarongs. -
This narcotics dealer used a very good method for packing the marihuana. -
- He used galvanized and soldered metal boxes to keep the smell from getting
out. It was written on the boxes that they had been sent f.r.om Kua7.a Lampar
to Bangkok by Singapore Airline and were to continue on to tokyo and New
York City by Japan Airlines. The value of the marihuana in Thailand wou]_d
be about 800,000 baht, and if it got to America it would be worth many
millions of baht. The officials have sent it to the narcotics suppression
_ unit for safekeeping until it is destroyed.
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LAO SU STILL ACTIVE IN NORTH
Bangkok SIAM RAT in Thai 10 Oct 79 pp 1,12
[Text] The provincial police commander of Region 3, _
revealed that Lao Su was still active near Mae Ai,
Chiang Mai surrounded by maLLy armed bodyguaxds. It _
would be difficult to arrest this heroin dealer
unless he were betrayed.
Police Major Commander Surachit Panyarachun, the commander of the provincial -
police, Region 3, revealed to SIAM RAT that Lao Su or Wenkho or Sawang Sae -
- Su, the heroin king,~~.had escaped on 20 October 1977 after having be~n taken
for treatment at the central hospital and is still in Mai Ai, Chiang Mai
- Province. He has many gunmen protecting him. "Lao Su has been seen near
Mae Ai and it appears that he has ma.ny gunmen protecting him. I have not
seen anything of him but he is ~isguised. He better be careful because if
his underlings betray him, then he would be finished hanging around there -
very long. He could disguise himself by growing a beard or something like
that and again he could not be caught unles he were betrayed. Looking at
a picture would not help."
Lao Su was arrested on 20 August 1977 at house No 38 Soimisuwan Lane 3 in
Phrakhonong, charged with possession of narcotics. Later the Revolutionary
Council gave him the death sentence, but he was able to escape when taken
for treatment at the central hospital. Now there is a reward of 100,000
. baht for his capture.
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THAILAND
LACK OF COORDINATION INHIBITS DRUG SUPPRESSION
Bangkok SIAM RAT in Thai 19 Oct 79 pp 1,12
[Text] "Right now people are very confused about the units dealing with
drug suppression or communist terrorists. Here in the north there are
many of them at Doi Thamngop Maesarong and Chiang Rai. Theivarious units
do not meet or coordinate their work so they know nothing of each other
and the situation is confused. In Chiang Mai it is not known which units
are working together. The ministry or the Office of the Prime Minister .
has said that the provincial governors should be told everything but
actually even governors are in the dark," Police Major General Surachit _
Panyarachun, the commander of the Provincial Police Region Three, was
~ quoted by SIAM RAT when discussing the lack of coordination of the various
units in the north and the consequent failure of their efforts at suppression.
"With all these people in the mountains the police can not do anything. Some-
times they da the wrong thing. For example the police at Chiang Dao never
, go very far into the mountains for many days. I can not help out. If
there is trouble, shooting and casualities, they have to scramble out each
_ time. Up in the mountains they just can not move around." The commander -
_ of the Provincial Police, Region Three, was discouraged.
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~
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BRIEFS
SURIN ISLAND REHABILITATION--Surin Island will be used as a rehabilitation
area fo r narcotics addicts. Job traa.ning will also be given there. Mr
Sawat Khamprakop, minister in the Office of the Prime Minister, mentioned i
that Surin Island wot~ld be a suitable locations for a drug rehabilitation '
cent~er because there are no local residents and it is far from the coast;
outsiders would have difficulty ~neaking in. It is naturally beautiful =
and there is an abundant fresh-water spring which will bring peace to those
convalescing and give them a chance to recover. The minister said that
- there will also be job training prima.rily in radio, television, and elec-
~ `tronics which do not require much space. The government will look for
related work for those receiving training. It is thought that this program
will begin in 1980. [Text] [Bangkok SIAM RAT in Thai 13 Oct 79 p 3] ,8149
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' CANADA
BRIEFS
MARIHUANA SEIZURE IN MONTREAL--In Montreal during the weekend the RG~IP
[Royal Canadian Mounted Police] seized 260 pounds of African marihuana
with a value of 1.2 million dollars on the black market. The suspicions -
_ of the National Harbor ,Police were aroused when they were observing a
rented car in the harbor area. One of the occupants of the car boarded a
freighter and returned ashore with a bag, which was deposited in the trunk
of the vehicle. Then a car of the RCNIP took over the surveillance and
pursued the car of the three suspects in a wild chase until the car crashed
into some posts on Rue Rouen. The police arrested three persons of Greek
origin--Tsakaris Esstathious of Montreal, Antonius Calathakis, and Constantin
_ Iabiris--and discovered 60 pounds of marihuana in the bag, Ia.ter, 200
- additional pounds were discovered in the cabins of the seamen, [Text)
jMontreal LA PRESSE in French 26 Nov 79 p A 3]
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HUNGARY
BRIEFS
OPIUM SEIZED--Budapest, September 12, (MTI)--Several million forints worth
of smuggled goods have already been confiscated ar the western border
crossing point of Hungary, Hegyeshalom this year. The biggest catches of
- the past couple of weeks include two drug smugglers from Baghdad. Customs
officers have found about two kilograms of opium hidden in a car with
Iraqi licence plate. The passengers of the car, Allah Shukor Hassan, 40,
and Khadar Rashed Moham, 51, of Baghdad asserted that the bags contained
completely harmless "holy powder." Soon their case will be tried in
court. Two Yugoslav guest workers of Austria, Radoslav Radoslavjevic and
Matic Zivorald tried to smuggle through Hungary 78 quartz watches and
watch batteries. Having also been caught, they will be tried in a
Hungarian court shortly. [Text] [LD130500 Budapest MTI in English
1102 GMT 12 Sep 79 LD] -
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MARIHUANA'S MEDICINAL PROPERTIES TOUTED
Mexico City EL SOL DE MEXICO in Spanish 25 Nov 79 p 14-A
[Text] BOGOTA, 25 Nov (EFE)--Colombian marihuana, the exceedingl.y we11
known '4narimba," is considered to be the finest in quality in the world,
and also one of the cheapest. But what is not known is that, also, recent
experiments carried ouC in European countries such as [West] Germany,
E~igland and France have determined that the La. Guajira "weed" is an
effective remedy for asthma, insomnia, hoarseness, nerves, neuralgia and
phthisis--that is to say, for a number of ailments that are cncnmon among
peogle.
The curious thing abouC the matter is that here in Colombia, at least in
the northern provinces where marihuana is grown, its curative properties _
have been known since time immemorial.
Without going farther afield and going into detail about this drug and
_ narcotics trafficking, the leftist magazine ALTERNATIVA published an _
advertisement which appeared in a Colombian newspaper in 1871 in which it
was stated that "cannabis indica," canm~only known as marihuana, is the -
- best med'icine for combatting asthma, hoarseness and facia.l neur.al~ia.
It is calculated that, in 1978, the "black market" sales of marihuana
exceeded 1.8 hillion dollars,
In this same period, the legal income from exports of coffee came to
' barely 1.5 billion dollars. And there's the differenceo
Apart from this debate as to whether or not marihuana should be legalized
in Colombia, what is absolutely clear is that, in addition to its harmful
effects on the user, it also has its positive side.
- Back in the 19th centruy, when the troops of the Liberator, Simon Bolivar,
- were fighting against the Spaniards, the doctors of those days used ttie
Colombian '4aeed" to calm those ill with cholera, epilepsy, phthisis and
as thma.
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_ According to these physicians, inhaling the smoke of the marihuana dilated
the bronchial passages and the air could pass more easily, thus aiding the
breathing of the asthmatic.
"Santa Marta Goldena" another of the names by which Colombian marihuana is _
known, is also beneficial to those suffering from cancer because it calms
the nausea and vomiting associated with anti-cancer treatments.
Other specialists claim that it is also beneficial against certain visual
defects such as cataracts.
;
Whether or not these doctors are correct, the �act remains that the Colombian
"weed" daily has more users, principally in the~United States.
Its medicinal properties may be very beneficial but, at least for the moment,
~ bo*h the scientists and the drug traffickers are of the opinion that the
best medicine of the "weed" is that growing sense of euphoria, peace and
we1J.-being so desired by millions of people the world over:
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COSTA RICA
BRIEFS
COCAINE t~RRESTS--Another drug trafficking case was discovered yesterday
afternoon at Juan Santamaria Airport. The drug control department -
arrestea four individuals involved in the incident and seized 1 pound
of cocaine. [PA041336 San Jose Radio Reloj in Spanish 1200 GMT 4 Dec 79
PA]
_ DRUG RING UNCOVERED--San Jose, 2 Dec (ACAN-EF'E)--According to the Costa
Rican Public Security Ministry's narcotics department, a gigantic inter- ~
- national drug ring has been un~overed and a large amount oF heroin,
cocaine and barbiturates for both local consumption and export, has been
seized. Three individuals, one of them a former Public Security Ministry
official, have been arrested and turned over to the corresponding
authorities. Investigations are continuing as other members of the
drug ring are still at large. [PA101514 Panama City ACAN in Spanish
2033 GMT 2 Dec 79 PA]
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TRAFFICKERS BURY DIPD AGENTS ALIVE -
Mexico City EL SOL DE MEXICO in Spanish 3 Oct 79 p 8-A
[Text] A large scale police action began yesterday in the state of Guerrero
for the arrest of the murderers of three agents of the Criminal Investigation
and Prevention Division [DIPD] in the town of E1 Naranjo, Guerrero.
In spite of the attempted secrecy of the DIPD local police agents, of the
Federai Security Office and of inembers of the Army, EL SOL D~ NIEXICO was _
_ able to find aut that there are already five suspects arrested in the Campo
Militar No 1 where they are being intensively "interrogated" by special agents,
to find their accomplices.
Unofficial reports say that three agents were buried alive ~_n the towri of ~l
- Naranjo by a ring of drug traffickers and forger~, ~aho operate all over the
Republic. The three agents had followed the gangste.rs to capture them.
Another account is that the gangsters first forced the agents to di.g their
own graves and then riddled thein~oith bullets.
- After the kcillings became kno~,m, Gen Arturo Durzo Moreno, chief of the Police
_ and Transit General Directorate, ordered the greater part of the agents from
that body to be transferred to the city of Chilpancingo ro track down in the
mountains of Guerrero the members of the alleged ring of drug traffickers and
forgers of 1,000-peso bills.
It was learned that three agents, Carlos Ornelas, Juan Ayala Angeles ar~d
rliguel Rodriguez Rodriguez had uncovered in this city the ring, who were
- also white slave dealers. But before they arrested them they escaped to
E1 Naranjo. The agents followed the gangster.s to arrest them, but tlieir _
plans went astray.
The village of E1 Naranjo is located 48 km before Chilpancingo, Guerrero.
The murdered agents were found yesterday when someone went looking for them
because they had not been heard from.
This is the second large scale action ordered by high police authorities.
Up to this time, the first for lo.cating the "Piojo Negro," has failed -
- complztely.
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BRIEFS
MARIHUANA IN TANK TRUCKS--A couple of sharp operators took advantage
of ttie fuel shortage in the United States to smuggle marihuana in tanks for
gas for home use. Members of the Federal Judicial Police [PJF] based in
San Luis Potosi discovered in the town of Ventura a truck with Texas license
plates, No MN 1696, 1974 model, loaded with cylinders of "butane gas." The `
truck had already made itself suspect by its constant crossing of tY~e borders ,
from the north of Mexico into the United States and they decided to investigate
it. The vehicle was stopped and its occupants, Arturo Acosta Tizcareno and
= Guadalupe Luna Sandoval were not worried because they assumed that the
vehicle would be searched but they never i~nagined that one of the cylinders
would be opened. In this way the PJF found that inside 30 butane gas
cylinders with a capacity of 30 kg each the traffickers had placed 1320 k~
of compressed marihuana. [Text] [Mexico City EL SOL DE MEXICO in Spanish
3 Oct 79 p 8-A] 9204
= OAXACA SHOOTOUT--Oaxaca, Oaxaca. 10 October--in a shootout between drug
= traffickers and federal agents one of the latter died and six other partici- ~
- pants were wounded. These events took place at 1030 hours in San Baltazar
Guelavila, in the municipality of Tlacolula. The federal agents found out that
about 20 traffickers were hidden in a country house in San Baltazar Guelavila
and when they arrived there they were fired upon. [Felipe SanchezJ [Text]
[Mexico City EXCELSIOR in Spanish 11 Oct 79 p 7-D] 9204 _
TRAFFICKERS SEIZED IN CHIAPAS--Tuxla Gutierrez, Chiapas--12 October--Five
drug traffickers who were selling drugs to students at the Chiapa de Corzo
- Normal School and at other schools were arrested yesterday by the Federal
Judicial Police [PJF]. Those involved are: Candelario Perez Ballinas,
Angela Gonzalez de Aguilar, Lauro Cancino Verti, Jesus Mayorga and Jesus
Vazquez. Gen Roberto Espinosa Moreno, commander of the PJF, said that they
_ distributed the drug to students of the Normal and other schools. [Porfirio
Diaz L.) [Text] [Mexico City EXCELSIOR in Spanish 13 Oct 79 p 26-A] 9204 `
MARIHUANA SEIZED IN PUEBLA--The Federal Judicial Police [PJF~ confiscated
yesterday slightly more than one ton of marihuana and destroyed fields of
marihuana covering an area of 3,000 squarz' meters in Puebla. Correspondent _
Raymundo Vega y Crespo renorted that the PJF arrested Lucas Luna Acuna an3
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Francisca Palma de Luaa from whom they seized about one ton of marinuana in
San Juan Tecuxpa. Those arrested stated that a cousin of theirs who lives
in the Federal District had given them the seeds and that they had planted
them not knowing that they were marihuana. Commander Jose Luis Calvo
Rodriguez pointed out that the marihuana fields were discovered by light _
reconnais~ance planes which fly over the Mixteca area. The correspondent,
David Renteria, reported that in Nayarit the PJF arrested .Tesus Villegas Piz
at E1 Rodeo plantation. The drug trafficker said that he had four marihuana
fields under cultivation covering 3,000 square meters. The federal agents
destroyed the marihuana plants which were 1/2 meter tall. [Text] [Mexico
City EXCELSIOR in Spanish 19 Oct 79 p 27-A] 9204
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MARIHUANA BURNED--In conjunction with the Ministry of the Interior campaign
aimed at preventing drug traffic in the country, yesterday morning a large -
amount of marihuana, sei2ed in Los Chiles in the Matagalpa district, was -
destroyed. Narcotics Officer Mario Flores stated that marihuana traFfic
is punishable by law with 40 to 45 years in prison but that there is also
a rehabilitation process for users who will receive a revolutionaxy orien-
y tation. In the Sandinist Police yard, where the marihuana was dest?-oyed,
Jose Guerra, another officer, showed the 3,5000 [sic] cordob~s which they
also confiscated from the traffickers but whi.ch w~ll now go toward the
same antidrug campaign. Guerra announced that three arrests were made in
- that north ern city and Narcotics is continuing its campaign. [Text]
- [Managua EL PUEBI,O in Spanish 26 Oct 79 p 3] 11937
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PANAMA
BRIEF~
TRAFFICKER ARRESTED--Victor A. Sosa, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was
arrested Sunday at Tocument International Airport while in possession
of 198.5 grams of cocaine. Sosa had bought the cocaine in Peru, where
he was born, and was planning to sell it in the United States. Instead,
he has been turned over to the corresponding authorities. [PA10.1452
_ Panama City CRITI~A in Spanish 20 Nov 79 p 32 PA]
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REVOLUTION'S OPPOSITION TO ADDICTION SUR'~T{YED
Tehran KBYHAN in Persian 14 Nov 79 p 10
/A~rtiCle by Seyyed Ahmad Seyyed Tahari: "Addict3.on and the Revolutian:!'/
/Text/ A short time ago, the Miniatry of Ag~~cultur~ publiahed a pronounce-
~ ment in the mass media concerning the prohibition o~ poppy growing thxough- ~
~ out the country. On 31 October 1979 th~ apok~sman fnr tlae M~ni~Cry o�
Health, reiCerating the announcem~nt prohibiting poppy graw~nb, d~s~claxed
over the radio and television that optum smok~ng would aoon L~e pxohibited
and would be replaced by opium eating. _
One must see why these ministriea took the initi~C~ve o~ fe~u3.ng ~ur.h a~n- _
- nouncements and are insis~ing on prohibiting pop~,y grpwing. :t~ i~ to be
supposed that the evidence set out below wiAl an~awer ~hi~ que$t~.mn a~~zd
others which may be raieed on ocaasion within liii~ s~eGific ~a~~r~ c~nul con- �
text. It is clear that there are other ciraumata~nces and ~vid~n~~e zahfch
will support this benevolenC, devout decisaton.
1. The existing revolutionary atmosphere governing the deatiny of 35 mil- _
lion Iraniana, Moslem and non-Aioslem, Kurd and ~urk, ;3aluch and T13xicoman,
Arabic-speaking and Yersian-speaking--all in all the entire population of
Iran, of all creeds and races and languag~a--which ~nter~ds to guarax?~ee
their welfare amd comfort,c~nnot ana muet not be indifferex~t to ~he health =
and good condiC~.on of the people in this Land. Therefore, opium addicts,
- who have been estimated to numbex 1 million--165,000 of ~ahom have l.egal
medical quotas--make up one-thirty-fifCh the pop~xlation of Tran and. are a
_ substantial group from the numerical standpof~nt. If Che government ia suc-
cessful in treating them, gettin,g them to abandon the, habit a~d restc�'ing =
their health, the economic, military, political and cultural powers of ~he
society will be strengthened to an equiv~?lent degree ~nd a deep, basic =
_ transformation will truly cane about in the ~cevolutian. _
2. The overwhelming majority of opium addicts ar~ professio~aal working _
people. If each one of them spende an hour and a half a day consuming
' opium on the average, a total of 540 million houx�s of Iranian workforce�s
- time is apent to tnis end per year--in other worcis, is ~rast~d. ~n terms
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of the country's national income, this is a signi.ficant figure. Meanwhile,
the time apent on chewing as compared to emoking is so insignificant that ~
it seems almost nothing. ~
3. From the economic standpoint, the money the addict apende procuring
opium is reduced to on~-fifth berauee in the opinion of addiction treatment ;
experts one-fifth the amount of opium consumed in amoking can have the af- i
fect of the amount of opiu~ smoked when eaten, and can easily be aubetituted i
for smoking withou~ any kind of daagerous aide effecta. If one asaumee f
that every opium addict smokes 3 grams of opium a day on the average and
apenda 15a rials on it, this amount if eaten rather than emoked Will drop ~
to 30 rials and thus the sum of 43.2 billion rials will be saved every year. ;
The point thaC 43 billion ria18, which mey be considered the equivalent of
$600 million, are to be considered a great form of capital establiehes how ~
effective and beneficial this sum can be in raieing the level of workers' '
and farmera' employm~ent every year. ~
_ 4. Since opium smoking is carried out in the sight and vieW of the family ~
and involves members of the femily as a whole in preparst~on of Che brazier !
and pipei it is unquestionably and certainly an incentive to turn them to- '
ward o~pium addiction. What is noteworthy is the addiction of those members '
of the family who are able to smoke opium and cause the rate of addiction j
in the society tfl accelerate. Eating opium, hoWever, is devoid of this aort !
of pawerful jolt to the family and cauaes much Lees damage from the aocial ~
and economic standpoint. ~
-
5. Continued opium smoking lessens the addict's preatige in the family and ;
_ also harms his social etatus, as the addict fee18 himself to be despicable ~
- and helpless. Thus, if the method of,smoking is replaced by eating, he will
- regain his lost prestige from manq standpoints and will conAider himBelf to
be a worthy, fit person once again. j
6. In the relatively distant past, the process of smoking opium was con-
sidered disgraceful and the opiun addict was portrayed ~s a lazy, s~ck, ~
shiftless person in schoolbooke. However, with the passage ofr time, thie ;
ugly por~rayal vanished and to the contrary even becaa?e the source of pride
and glory in some families and lost its disgraceful qualitq in racent yeara-- ,
_ to the point where the country's public agencies officially proceeded to ~
recognize addicte of this type and took stepa ta issue them quota carde ;
= starting in 1969, increasing the rate of growth of ad@iction through thia i
unbalanced and at times biased ac~ and consciously or unconsciou~ly dealing
such a blow to the country's economic, political and social makeup that it ;
will not be possible to make up for it for many years even by incurring ~
abundant expenses and much hardship. ,
7. It aeems that cutting off the opium consumption o~f people who are ac- ~
c�ustomed to eating it is eaeier and therefore it is assumed that the Min- '
istry of Health, in t~king thie decision--that ia, substituting eating for
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emoking--intends to facilitate and pave th~ ground for the ~t~~~~dor~rr?e~at o~ -
th~ir addiction.
8. The dignity and strength of the rountry ~t~~ aC st~k~. Im~~r~a~lism and
e~loitation wanted and still want to keep ths~ r~uff~ring, o~pxeaaed peoplea -
under their dominance rtncl oppre~sio~n thxough the vexvituda o~ th~ clurclies
~f addiction. Histo~cy ahows that whenever ~ x~a~tiom ris~e u~ ui~ci~:x th~
leadership of its b~nsvolent lea~aer~ i~ b~avely cxushss t.mp~r~.~.I9.:cn by teu~~
_ ing up the chaine o� addicition ~nnd throwing them away. Tih~ v~lsib~~~ ~aui
invisible agents of im~erialism present them~~lvcs~ as ~u~}~or~3.n~; ~c~d+.ctra
and the people through r~asoning sup~rficial3y ju~t~fi.ed ~y ca5~~a9sion and
seem more. Catholic th~n the Pop~ so thst they m.~y t~~ip in i~rr~l.~nrxng F~ddic-
- tion, which is the ultimate goal ~f the imperi~.liot+~. ~?t thla pa~.n~. ar.e _
has no choice but to u~ntion the fac~ tliat Y.'~~)LAC:Lilj~ 3~noking b~ ~~ting c~nd
finally putting an end to the opium h.abit~ of ~F.op~e who havcz be~~n ~cldicted
to it far years is not auch an eaay aob. Howev~r, if. son~ane i:~ X~e+e to
choose one of the two evils he will logically c~oo~s tl~r~ evil who~~ d~~~cee
of harm and hardship is the lesser and whose ultim3te utility i.s gr:e~te;r.
Therefore it is true thmt abandoning the ]habit veems diffi.~ul~:, bu~ th~ ~
act is a cause for the pride ancl d~.gility o~ tl~e ~.cidict and h~f.e~ ~an~.ly.
More important than al.l else, he incr~aa~s t1h~e a~r~ngth ~r~i infZu~n~;~ ~f
his country which protects hia benef~.ta anrl ~~noa~ af k~i.~ ~Eu~~are ge~.~rat~r~n
through this act.
9. $liminating addiction cause~ c~rCai.n i:yp~s ~f ~~'imeu ~.c~ :~ac~I.~~y Yo d~-
- crease. Just at the tim~ the rec~nt Mini~txy of ~ie~Rth ci~cl.ax~r~.on ~a~~ pub-
lished, the following news item war~ xeproduced on 3 a~ ~~,e n~~a~ps~p~r.
ETTELA'AT dated 31 Octob~r 1979: yo~xng ~ereox~ kill~d ia~.~ ano~.her. Gorggn: -
Mehrdad Maqsudlu, 18 years of s~ge, killed h~~ mo*h~r ~n th~ w~~.~ ~f a~e~ty
quarrel with several knife stabs. Accordxng ~u ~y~witx~ass~s he xequested
money from his mother to buy narcotics, his mothe~r zefus~d to givs him th~
money and thus a ciispute ~ra~e and Mehrdad k~l:led h�Ls mott~er. The person =
charged with the murder has been axrest~d ancl ~uiprisnn~d