JPRS ID: 9838 WORLDWIDE REPORT NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS

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JPRS L/9838
9 July 1981
Worldwide Re ort
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NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
cFOUO 3 ~ is 1 ~
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~ July 1981
. VdORLDWIDE REPORT
NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
(FOUO 31/81)
CONT~NTS
ASIA
HON G KON G
Briefs
- Heroin Courier Sentenced 1
Heroin Manufacturer Jailed 1
Heroin Trafficker Guilty 1
Drug Seizure Statistics 1
Heroin ITtstribution Center 2
INDIA
Briefs
Ra3asthan Opium Production 3
MALAYS IA
Large-S cale Expansion Schedulec~ fo r Antinarcotics Unit
(Halimah Todd; NEW STRAITS TIMES, 7 May 81) 4
= Nationwide Drug Raids Result in 412 Arrests
(NEW STRAITS TIMES, 1 May 81) 7
Kuala Lumpur, Singapore Police Break Smuggling Ring
(NEW SI];dDAY TIMES, 3 May 81) 8
rliinitrazepam L:Lsted as Dan~;erous Drug, Abused by Addict.s
- (NEW SUNDAY TIMES, 10 May 81) 9
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Briefs
Life Sentence 10
He.roin Possess ion 10
Ro che 2 Tab le ts 10
Acquitted on Dru~ Qzarge 10
Compulsory Registration 10
l~brphine Destmyed 11
_ Opium Raid 11
- PHILIPPINES
Incidence of Drug Abuse Increasing
(Marcia C. Rodriguez; BL1LLETIN TODAY, 13 Jun 81) 12
Briefs
Marijuana Plants Seized 14
THAILAND
Large Opium Harvest in Golden TriangleExpected
- (Herve Chabalier; LE MATIN, 23 Apr 8X) 15
Golden Triangle Life With Opium Inrds Described
(LE FIGARO, 1 Jun 81) 18
Narcotics Agents Seize 58 k~ of Heroin Base
(BANG~OK POST, 14 May 81) 23
CANADA
Heroin Seller Jailed for 15 Months
(THE VANCOiTVER Si1N, 21 May 81) 25
Morphine Importer Sentenced to Life Term
(THE GLOBE AN D MAIL, 27 May 81) 26
Prosecutors Easing Up on Cannabis Importers
(Patricia Horsford, Kathleen Engman; ~iE GLOBE AND MAIL,
28 May 81) 27
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Pot Possession To Remain Crime 30
Five Charged in Drug Seizure 30
Ottawa Campaign Against Marihuana 30
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LATIN AMERICA
MEXICO
Heroin, Weapons Seized, Trafficker Sought
(EL MANANA, 13, 14 Jun 81) 31
Notorious Trafficker Escapes
U.S. Officials Cooperating
Current Report on Discovery of Poppy, Marihuana Plantations
(EL SOL DE SINALOA, 14 Jun 81) 33
_ Court Release of Trafficlcers Criticized
~EL DIARIO DE NUEVO LAREDO, 6, 7 Jun 81)..........~ 34~
Coverup Claimed
False Testimony Claimed
Prison Officials Accused of Corruption, Trafficking
(EL BRAVO, 11 Jun 81) 37
School Principal Arrested for Marihuana Trafficking
(EL IMPARCIAL, S Jun 81)........9 39
Sales o.f Inhalants to Minors Banned
(EL SOL DE SINAIAA, 7 Jun 81) 40
~ao Traffickers Captured, Opium Gum Seized
(EL SOL DE SINALOA, 8 Jun 81) 41
Farmer Atzempting Heroin Sale Arrested
(LA VOZ DE LA FRONTERA, 12 :fun 81) 42
Eight Opium Gum Traffickers Captured
(EL SOL DE SINALOA, 13 Jun 81) 44
Accumulation of Drugs Incinerated by Authorities
- (LA i10Z DE LA FRONTERA, 9 Jtut 81) 45
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Accomplice'b Release Appealed 46
_ Judge Disqualifies Himself 46
Ex-Policemen Sentenced 46
Traffickers Sentenced 47
Opium Gum Trafficker Arrested 47
Antidrug Action Claimed Lagging 47
Traffickers Blamed for Murders 48
Plane Found With Marihuana 48
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NEAR EAST AND NOR~i AFRIC[~
AF(~iANISTAN
Briefs 49
Opium Seized
IRAN
Briefs 50
Opium Haul 50
Fasa Drug Haul
Darab Drug Haul 50
WEST EUROPE
~ DENMARK
Justice Minister Plans To Increase Narcotics Police
(INFORMATION, 27 May 81) S1
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMAIdY
v Police Official `~iews QZanges in Drug Scene
- (J. Neander; DIE WELT, 26 May 81) 53
Profesaor Surveys Drug Scene, Draws Conclusions
(FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE, 4 Jun 81) 55
FRAN CE
Hashish, Arms Seized at St. Tropez, Paris
(LE FIGARO, 11 May 81) 57
SWE DEN
National, County Police Dispute Stockholm Drug Cases Juri~diction
- (Leif Dahlin; DAGENS NYHE7.'ER, 10 Jun 81) 59
Helicopter Tracks Dawn Speedboa~ Smuggling Drugs
(Gunnar von Sydow; SVENSKA DAGBLADET, 23 May 81).�.�������������� 62
UNITED KINGDOM .
Briefs 64
Heroin Seized
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HON~ KONG
BRIEFS
HEROIN COURIER SENTENCED--A broker was yesterday sentenced in the High i,ourt
to 10 years' imprisonment for possessing $3.7 million worth of heroin for unlaw-
fui trafficking. Tong Cho-yan (39), who had pleaded not guilty to the charge,
was found guilty by a,jury after 3-1/2 hours' deliberation. Mr Justice Baber
said he accepted that Tong was a mere courier but the court had to pass a deter-
rent sentence in view of the large amount of drugs involved. Tong was arrE~sted
on August 8 by four Blue Beret police officers in Baker Street, Hunghom. At
the time he was carryi~g two travelling bags containing 21 lbs of heroin.
[Excerpt] [Hong Kong SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST in English 27 May 81 p 13]
HEROIN MANUFACTURER JAILED--A 35-year-old hawker was yesterday sentenced in the
High Court to 11 years' imprisonment for possessing heroin worth $5 million for
trafficking and possessing a substance used in the msnufacture of drugs. Yeung
Chong-hung was convicted by a~ury after a trial. During the trial the court
was told that Yeung was stopped by police as he was about to enter a f lat in
Kwai Ling House,Tsur. Wan Centre. Inside they found a complete factory set up
for the manufacture of heroin and a mixture containing a total of 1,685 grams
of heroin. [Excerpts] [Hong Kong SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST in English 27 May 81
p 13]
HEROIN TRAFFICKER GUILTY--A detective inspector who posed as a drug buyer bought
a pound of heroin for $32,000 from two men, Victoria District Court was told
yesterday. One of the men, Fung Sin-keung (23), a waiter, was sentenced to five
years' imprisonment by Judge Evans after he had pleaded guilty to possessing
dangerous drugs for trafficking. The other man had been sentenced on April 4 to
three years' imprisonment after he pleaded guilty before Ju3ge Cruden. [Excerpt]
[Hong Kong SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST in English 28 May 81 p 16]
- DRUG SEIZUR~ STATISTICS--A total of 3,161 vice-raids were carried out by the
- police throughout the Colony in April. They resulted in the arrest and prosecu-
tion of 1,854 people, according to statistics released by police yesterday. Of
these, 493 people were arrested in 946 raids in Hongkong island, 1,027 in 1,965
raids in Kowloon and 330 in 240 raids in the New Territories. Four others were
arrested by Narcotics Bureau officers in 10 raids. During last month's crack-
down on drug traffickers and peddlers, police arrested 512 people in 906 raids
on premises and in street search operations. Drugs seized included 12.3 kilo-
grams of heroin, l.ll kilograms of heroin base, 0.76 kilograms of opium, 18.28
_ grams o� barbitone and 48.66 grams of morphine. [Excerpts] [Hong Kong SOUTH
- CHINA 2~[ORNING POST in English 31 May 81 p 7]
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HEROIN DISTRIBUTION CENTER--Narcotics Bureau detectives yesterday arrested a
22-year-old man in connection with the seizure of 1,000 grams of heroin worth
$250,000 from a Tung Choi Street flat in Mongkok. The arrest and seizure
follow two months of investigations. Equipment associated with heroin packing
was also seized from the flat, which police believe was being used as a heroin
distribution centre. The arrested man is expected to be charged today with
possessing dangerous drugs for unlawful trafficking. [Text] [Hong Kong
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST in English 3 Jun 81 p 9]
CSO: 5320
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~ INDIA
- BRIEFS
RAJASTHAN OPIUM PRODUCTION--Kota, (Ra~asthan), June 8(UNI)--A total of 456
tonnes of opium was produced in Ra~asthan this year, with the average per hec-
tare production exceeding 45 kg, the highest in sixteen years. This was stated
here yesterday by Narcotics Deputy Comnissioner Lalit Mankad. About 44,000
farmers in 2,749 vill~.ges of Jhalawar, Bhilwara, Chittorgarh, Banswara and
Udaipur districts were engaged in opium cultivation, he said. Mr Mankad said
that Ra~asthan led the other two opium growing States in the country--Madhya
Pradesh and UP--in average production per hectare, though total production was
~ the highest in Madhya Pradesh. Mr Mankad said over Rs 7.80 crore was paid to
the farmers for the opium crop. The State Government earned over Rs 1.5 crore
as revenue from the opium crop he said. In reply to a question about licensing
policy, Mr Mankad said henceforth licences for growing opium will be issued only
to those farmers who had produced a minimum of 28 kg of opium per hectare.
- [Text] [New Delhi PATRIOT in English 9 Jun 81 p 4]
CSO: 5300
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~ MALAYSIA
LARGE-SCALE EXPAI~iSION SCHEDULED FOR AiTTI?~tARCOTICS UNIi

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Kuala Lumpur NEW STRAITS TIMES in English 7 May �S1 p 14
[Article by Halimah Todd]
[Text]
can Bml~a~sy sources In Malaysis' the eold in Penang and
- ~A STBAW o! heroin, ~n Kuala Lumpur aro
co~ts oNy i6 today oa~ ~~owl worrfedabout Ycara ot drought hawked to foroign
the streeti ot Pe y Pushcd up tho prlce. buycrs le not trom thie
~g - the eKacta ot the big Thore wss a eovero harvesL Ya~ L11~e B��d
down by half trora� a: ~ppy harvest on trat- ahortage of No. S horoin b u a i n o s s m o n, t h c
Ya~ ticking !n and thrnugh vvhich Mslayslans wholeaalers on Lhc
Thls b ivat the tlret ~~ay~a, smoke, eince it waa Thai�Laotfan bordcr
effect of the bumper ~ thepeat two years, morc protitablc to turn are liquidating old
o p i u m c r o p ~ u i t }~ey explain, drought fn the opium into Ifquld � etock bcsfore tho abun-
hsrvested !n the Golden the (3oldenTriangle has herofn (No. whlch dant eupplio8 trom thie.
Triaagle. But it ti not Caused buyers In Eu- ~~s Inject� year'a crop forcc pricca
tha la~t. InteUlgeace rope to swltch to the go~e addicts grow � right down.
source~ predlct thst� chesper, more Flentlful desperate enough to . But with tho Europe� �
thl~ year the supply ot heroin grown. !n the ~k help; but, accord- an market ticd to Arab
heroln will increa~e. !t~ ~ddle Eas~ ing to the pollce, manq euppllore, where will all
purity wiU rise snd its ~ more turned to crlme to thia death-dwt go?
p~C� ~u ~0p' `,8 a r~ ~ ~ get the averago ~0 a Australlaa narcolfca
eult, the number ot ~1gger kiCk � day they needed. To get~ agents toar that their
- y o u n g M s I s y s! a n a� ~e Chfae~e I~ongs. a bigger kick out of population w111 bocomc
hooked on drugs 1e opersttng trom tho what Ilttlo they could the target markot.
almwt certaln to rise. Netherlsnd~, uead to afford, many addlcte Amertcan DEA agenti
'"There will be bodfe~ ~upply 80 to 90 par cent turned frnm "chasing havo alroady notod a
all over the place, ot Europe'e needs via the dragon" (lnhaling flurry ot Amorfaan
= warned aa undercover ~gk~~ ~n~s ~d the smoke) to in~eMln6 buyere deacending on
- anti-dadall aaent~ aho Hon~ Kong. Now they llquid heroln etraight Bangkok eagar tor the
- expeets more deatht � hsve been owted trom into thefr veins. Even aew "aalo PMcee."
from overdoses now ~e market by eyndf- sddfct~ regard Iniec-
that a~auy addicb have cates wing Turkfsh m1- tors eu "gono caees" Local users
swltched Lrom smoking ~~t worken who run who Nsk an overdose
to Iniectin6 hernin. mslaly tnto Ger� ovory tlme thoy pueh !n Sut tha oasioet and
Informstlon about ~~Y ~ the needle. sefeet markets,�wi11 bo
the drug trafflc ts ~~A~ hava also� But that was: In the ~�~8~ O�em ' ~n Thaf~
s 1 w s y~ e d u c a t e d' ,~ered hdavily trnm drougAt year~. In 1979 lsnd and in Malayaia.
_ guesn~rork - besed on ~n ~n, tha harveet in tho TheDEAofflcclnThal�
~~0~~~' ~d ~as~poro an~-Malaysla Goldon Trfangte was land has eetimated that
the tlny nu~b~r o~re~ Now only m estlmatod only about 186 tons; last halt ot +his year a
fstered addlcta. � 10 per cent of the drug year 1t waa an eati- harveet wlll be con-
Tr~e beat Intellfgence trade 1n Eumpa ls eup- mated 2S6 tone. .The sumed !n South-Eaet
network ot~ the lnterns- p~led irom Bputh-East crop which hae juet As1a iteelf. Tho local
tional trade fn heroin i~ Asfa. ~Io Mslayslan come in ls a hefty 800 *narket ie caaior bo-
the American Drug En- tratttckers have beon tons. more than double caueo it fa closo at hand
torcamant Agency~ ~~ted9nGermanyor that� ot tho drought and eafer becauso the
(U~GA) which have ot- Holland tor almost a Yeara. trado can be kopt withSn
t1ce~ throughout Eu- ya~, Thc stuff now baing, the truetod notworka of
rope and Asia. Amerl-
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tami~y ar,a ~~an. with thle analyais. The ' licer' 1s racing agalnsi.
Nevcr completcly Mentri Beaar ot Johore time to equip ltaelf to~
~ a f e t h o u g h. T h o recently ahocked� the combat the.expected icP~
Malayeian Anti-Dadah nation when he claimed IIux ot cheap ~heroin.
Unlt has madc seven ~,}~at VIPa 1n the 3tate Fo; years qn ineffec-
big busta thia year cul- Were lnvolved fn or- tive aad pitifully under-=
minating !n a raid led g~aing and financing ~ ataffed unit under tlte;
by its head. Datuk Jar� the dadah trafflc. Prime Miniafer's De-'
iie. on a house in Old American Embasay partment. it was transr';
Klang Road laet week ~~.~s eaid the trade ferred to the ~olice !n ~
whlch arreeted six to be run mainly ]9T9 and now h$,s 37 of~
mcmbers of what pollce by the Teochew ayndl- ttcers and men. This
descMbed as a multi- cate. the Ah' Kong, ~.N ill be dramatica}!~t
mfllion eyndfcate o~er- ~hose tinanclers l:ved enlarged this year. Ap-~
ating In three countrice. ~n Singapore and left ~proval has just been~
Raw opium worth i2 mlddle-level operaUvea gfven to increaae the ee- !
mililon wae seized ~n to phyafcally handle tabllshment to 2;0l0 pp=;
that raid. tran~hipment through Ilce ot all ranka and 80H-
In tho tiret throo Maisytia Thls South- c[villane, Datuk Jarjia'
' months ot thle yoai, po� ~t Aelsn natwork has aald.
Ilco sola~d morc than been dlerupted by ar- Last y~ear, the unit~
:.lx tfinee tho amount ot. reate, but tt w1U proba- had no one on thee
_ heroln notted 1n the bly reactlvato ltaelf ground outslde Kuaia
whole ot 1950. Whether now that supply ia plen� Lumpur. Now it haa:
theee aucceaees are at� t1tu1. some otficera in the.
trlbutable to biggcr gut Datuk Jarjia north. Next year, it will.
quantitics of drugs. pointe out that if big or- fiave undercover in-,
paasing through the~ ganiaations controlled telllgence and entorce--:
country or to better in� the trade. then puehers ment agents in every;
telligence work by the. hocning in on thefr ter- State.
unit ae Datuk ~Jariie ritory would be killed - � The unit , will then:
- clalma, la an open quea� witnese the� Y..--~g war~ hsve the testh - and ;
tion. fn Amaterdarn. Thia the eare - to crack~
Datuk JarJie deniea doee not happen ln down on trafficking. Its=
that the trade 1s or� Malayata. Nor has the arreat record is blready
ganised in big ayndl� unit bean able to trace impresslve. The pubHc~:
catea. conaectiona between ia eo anti-dadat~ that"
Kong wars the seven ~ roupa ar- tlpofts lead to the arrest�
rested this ear. ot aa average 400 people;
Open alather tor iree- a month, Datuk Jarjie~'
'The ptcture ot one ~~cers makee aneat- said. But moet ot thertT~
big controlling ayndf� ~Ag dadah tratflckers are addicta aneated tor;
cate ia a myth," he sald. lfke kllling the hydra - posaession ot~ a tewi
"Anybody who Ilkes to ~~n as one group fa etrawa and soon out on+
take the rfik can take eliminated. two more the ~treets agafn. Oniy'
part�" spring up to talce !ta an inteiligence neiwork'
'"There ls a lot of�cas�. p~dca. ot: tralned agenta car~
ual trading going on. It ~e Aat!-Dadsh Unit catch thode who make a~
only takes three or tour (or Dlvislon E1ght es !t protlt irom the addtct's~'
poopie to torm a ayndl- la called withla the po- mlrery. ~
cate."
Not everyone apreee
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MALAYSIA
NATIOiVWIDE DRUG RAIDS RESULT IN 412 ARRESTS
Kuala Lumpur NEW STRAITS TIMES in ~nglish 1 May 81 p 13
~Text]
KUALA LUMPUR~Thurs. - raid on a ahophouse in dalan 311ang
Police seized about seven kgs ot here on April 3.
dadah worth about s220~000 in pIn Alor 8tar the following day,
86 raida on dru dene and dia- olice arreated a man in Jalan
g Tuaku Ibrahim and aeized a pound
tributing centres throughout a~ heroin worth about =~8,000. An-
the country over the past three other etispect wae later arreated in
weeka. the town.
R spokeeman aaid today 412 peo� OnApri118,po lice raided a houae
ple, including women. were aleo in Ampang Village~ Ipoh, and
arrested. aeized T8 packete o! heroin
The arreata included a couple weighing about T00 gma with the
suspected ot trafiic;ci,ng in 5,000 help of a locally bred Narco-dog
,
gms ot prepared opium and eeven Medan .
othera suspected of trafiieking The Doberman sniffed out the
about 1,ib0gm e of the same drug. heroin d.re~g in two milk tina. A
The couple were picked up in a womat~ was deInKo
a Ktnabalu the
tollowing day, police ar-
rested s msn a:?d selzed
about 75 gme of heroin aY
a houee in Jalan Ciuaran.
In Batu Pahat the
same day, police aeized
127 ,gm~ ot heroln In two
raids and arrested three
men.
On Aprtl 18, pollce re-
- covered ~7 grnmmee oi
heroin from a car and
seised ano:her 180 gm~ at
a howe !n Jalan Sr! Gala
a week later.
- Police also arreated a
man at a cotPee ehop !n
Tampot stter finding 38
gms ot heroin in 12
packets on him.
CSO: 5300/~344
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MALAYSIA
KUALA LUMPUR, SINGAPORE POLICE BREAK SMUGGLING RING
Kuala Lumpur NEW SUNDAY TIMES in English 3 May 81 p 1
[Text]
SINGAPOSE, Sat - A inulti-million' Kuala Ieumpur where they briefed their
doliar drug emuggling eyndicate baaed Malayeian counterparta on the lateat
in Kuala Lumpur has been smashed in aituation before the big awoop.
= what te believed to be the biggeat-ever ~e combined operation - led by
succeas by a combined Malayeian-Sln- Malayela's Narcotics Bureau chief Da-~
gapore anti-drug operation. tuk Mohamed Jarjla b1n haji Ali-was
Ftity kilogrammea of raw oplum ee- launched ahortly atter 10 p.m. laet
timated to be worth =2 million on the, Thursday.
bfack market wae eetzed ~rom the ayn- About 20� heavily armed ' offic~ere
dlcate's hide-out in Kuala Lumpur by rsided a house In Jalaa Klang Lama
_ eati-narcotica ageate during the well- After an hour'a sesrch. the otficera
coordlnated awoop on Thuraday. tound about 34 kiloe of raw opium hld-
Thfs was confirmed today by the ~ den in two eewerage tanks behind the
Dlrector of 3ingapore's Centrnll houee.
NarcotiCa Bureau (CNB), Mr Poh Geok
Ek. ~ ~
Six. people, one of them a woman, Smuggled in '
were detained and an expenslve
Mercedea Hens believed to have been Another bundle containing 18 kiloe of
used for drug running was also eeized. raw opium waa aleo Lound irom inside
The jofnt Malayalan-Singapore oper� a spara tyre of a Mercedea Benz ps~rked
ation wae the cllmax ot nearly a month tn the compound.
ot undercover lnveetlgation by the ' Slx people, tncluding a woman be~
CNB. Earlier on Wednesday, the bu- lleved to be the owner o! the house, were
reau arreeted two men tn Singapore arrested.
and recovend about =600,000 worth ot They are now helping the Malayslan
raw opium. ~p in lts Investigatione lnto the drug
B~I@flfl ayndfcate. .
9 Sources aaid today the opium wa~
CNB otticers tipped off thei amugg~sd in trom the notorioas Golden
Malayelan CID Narcotica Bureau coun ~~Sle in Thailand'e northern border
- , terparta aa soon as they learned of th ~e~
eyndlcate's activities In the two coun The drug waa apparently deatined
triee. for Johore and Singapore when ert-
A squad ot CNB men later drove to torcement authorlties intercepted thn
trattickars. _ . . .
- CSO: 5300/8344
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MALAYSIA
FLUNITRAZEPAM LISTED AS DANGEROUS DRUG, ABUSED BY ADDICTS
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Kuala Lumpur NEW SUNDAY TIMES in English 10 May 81 p 8 ,
[Text]
~v~+~? � Lv~v~. s~~. Substltute
- The Health Minlatry
h s s d e c, i a r. e d, The nport~ dbalwed
Flunltra,~epam (p ro- that Fluatu'a~ePam ~Y
prietry nsme "Rohyp- much wught atter by ad-
nol"), s commonly pre- dioU who iued It a~ s
scrf4~ed ~edatlve and hyp- substltute when they
notic drug, aa a danger- found !t diftlcult to ge!
ou~ dsug followiag. ita da.dah. .
g~ by,.~~ The drug~ was noai
A Ministry statemant lt~ted vader the Daager-
hare todsy said 4rafilck- ou~ Drugs Aat 1962 aad !t
tng fn thii divg was aa csn be imported by
ottence punl~hable with licetued regittered phar-
~ death penalty or life im- ~ ~~d
prlsoamea~ Health Mid~try
Aay uasuthorleed par-
~on who keeps or u~ei his Aegirtered licensed
premi~es for the admin�~ phsrmaclst~ aho sel~
iatrstfon oi the drug to thb druS b3' whole~ale to~
oWer~ siw commi4s aa. other registered licensed
oKeace~ pharmacf~ta mwt obtala
The ~tatement added ~eav iicence from tha
� that !t fs an otfence for ~1~i'Y�
~y ~~o~~pe ~a The move doe~ not pre-,
to adminl~ter the dru~ to vent the hormal we of
othen. ~ the drug as s~edstive
A c c o r d i n g t o t h e aad hypnottc medicine
~tatemeat, reports have� under prescription~ ot
been recelved drom en. regirter~d medical doc�,
fo.rseraent sgencle~ 1ri ton and reristered den-;
t h e c o u n t r y a n d tsl turgeon~ in com-
nelghbourfn~ countrfes� plianoe w14b ths requlre-
that the drug wa~ being meat~ ldd dowa In the
~b~wd by dadah eddlata. Dan~erous Drug~ Aat -
He~rna:na. . . .
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MALAYSIA
- BRIEFS ~
LIFE SENTENCE--Chong Cheon Hi, 29, a foreman from Simpang Tiga, was sentenced today
to life imprisonment and eight strokes of the rattan. The Kangar High Court found
him guilty of trafficking in 30.75 kg of raw opium. The offense occurred at the
20-mile post on Jalan Padang Besar-Kangar on 24 June 1978. A police team stopped a
car driven by Chong at this location and found two plastic packages of opium under
the driver's seat, three packages under the front passenger's seat, and ten packages
under the rear seat. [Kuala Lumpur NEW STRAITS TIMES in English 5 May 81 p 9]
HEROIN POSS~SSION--The Ipoh Magistrate's Court today sentenced You Chee Kong, 26,
unemployed, to 9 months in ~ail for possession of two tubes of heroin. The offense
occurred on 22 November 1980 at a house in Kampung Rapat, Ipoh. [Kuala Lumpur NEW
STRAITS TT.MES in English 5 May 81 p 10]
ROCHE 2 TABLETS--Singapore narcotics officers posing as drug purchasers yesterday
seized more than 10,000 tablets of Roche 2, a controlled drug. The drugs were sold
to the agents at 85 cents a tablet and have a street value of S$2.50 each. The two
- men who sold the drugs to the agents had come by car from Johore and had been allow-
ed to pass through the Woodlands checkpoint that morning. The prearr~:~~eu buy was ~
made at the Galaxy Cinema on Geylang Road, where the arrest was made. The tablets
are used by addicts as a substitute for heroin and are taken with beer or coke.
[Kuala Lumpur NEW STRAITS TIMES in English 7 May 81 p 4]
ACQUITTED ON DRUG CHARGE--The Ipoh Magistrate's Court today acquitted five men of a
drug charge when the prosecution withdrew the case against them. P. Velusamy, 26,
R. Kanaran, 23, A. Ganisan, 25, A. Savarimuthu, 19, and K. Segaran, 16, had pleaded
not guilty to possessing 0.06 gms of heroin at 10.10 a.m. on March 18 in Kampung
Paloh here. S. Krtshnan, 26, who earlier pleaded gullty to the charge, was sentenced
ta one ye;~r'S jail. [Text] [Kuala Lumpur NEW STRAITS TIMES in English 7 May 81 p 13]
CONII'ULSORY RLGISTRATION--According to Datuk Jar~is of the Antinarcotics Unit, the reg-
istration of addicts will become compulsory under a law that has been drafted and will
probably be tabled at the next session of Parliament. Registered addicts will be com-
pelled to undergo detoxification and then enter reha~ilitation centres. Addicts who
dodge authority will be convicted and sent to special prison centers for rehabilita-
" tion. He also said that the courts will be able to order the confiscation of property
of convicted tra�fickers. A constitutional amendment passed in the last session of
- Parliament to allow confiscation of the property of people convicted under the Intern-
al Security Act will be extended to cover convicted traffickers. [Kuala Lumpur NEW
STRAITS TIMES in English 7 May 81 p 14]
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rIORPHIN~ D~STROYED--The Customs Preventive Branch in Penang to~iay destroyed 26 slabs
_ of pure morphine worth about M$3 million on the black market. The morphine was des-
troyed at the city incinerator. The morphine was seized in Alor Star and Ipoh in
1972 and 1973. In March of this year the branch destroyed 2,894 grams of prepared
opium. [Kuala Lumpur NEW STRAITS TIMES in ~nglish 7 May 81 p 20]
OPIUM RAID--A mother and her daughter were arrested by police in connection with the
~eizure of 120 packets of opium in a house in Kampung Tawas New Village in Ipoh recent-
ly. Perak CID Chief Haji Samsuri bin Arshad said today a police party seized 120
small packets of opium, two tins of opium dross, a bottle containing a blackish sub-
stance, opium smoking lamp and pipe heads on Tuesday. In another case, Haji Samsuri
said police seized seized 78 packets of No 3 heroin weighing 1-1/2 lb and arrested
five persons, including a girl, in a house in Ampang New Village on April 13. A po-
lice dog "Medan" was used to sniff out the packets of heroin in two places in the
house. Haji Samsuri sai3 the heroin could provide about 150,000 shots. [Text]
[Kuala Lumpur NEW STRAITS TIMES in English 9 May 81 p 19]
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PHILIPPINES
INCIDENCE OF DRUG ABUSE INCREASING ~
Manila BULLETIN T~ODAY in English 13 Jun 81 p 17
~Article by Marcia C. Rodriguez~
~Text~ Drug abuse in the country showed an upward trend la.st yea,r.
This finding was indicated in a report from the dangerous drugs board (DDB), an
organization which coordinates all drug rehabilitation and treatment activities.
According to DDB, marijuana and licit pharmaceutical drugs, such as cough syrpus
and tranquilizers, continue to be used widely.
DDB noted that the ilicit cultivation of marijuana increased last year with Luzon
as the focal area of cultivation and Metro Manila as the principa.l area of distribu-
tion.
The supply of marijuana, however, was stabilized due to the seizure of some
443,612 marijuana plants and 864.5 kilograms of marijuana leaves, DDB said.
The bulk seizure of marijuana last year, DDB added, exceeded the total volume of
413,612 p lants seized f rom 1971 to 1979.
It was also learned that the Philippines is still being used as a transit country
for the smuggling of drugs.
In 1980, the board said, heroin destined for Hong Kong was shipped from Bangkok
through Mani la .
DDB also said that the board has improved ita total capability in containing the
drug problem.
'Po improve the drug situa.tion in the country, human resource development of
specialized professionals in the drug field through international exchanges in
such areas as strategic intelligence, criminal inforniation, researches, education,
treatment and rehabilitation is being emphasized, DDB said.
In addition, ~rassroot drug information programs and more researches are being
co~ducted to prevent and control the incidence of drug abusea
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DDB also pointed out tY.at a drug demand reduction program through preventive
education, treatment, research and communications as we11 as a drug supply
reduction approa~h through effective law enforcement are ~eing carried out to
curb the drug abuse.problem.
- As a result of these programs, DDB said, there was a big increase in the number
of voluntary cases admitted for drug dependency examination last year.
h
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- PHILIPPINES
BRIEFS
MARTJUANA PLANTS SEIZED--Camp E. Aguinaldo, QC, June 18--Close to Pl million worth
of marijuana plants were seized by government agents in raids conducted last
week in Benguet and Neuva Ecija. The raids by elements of the PC anti-narcotics
unit, the Phillippine Army, and the civilian home defense forces (CHDF) followed
surveillance by operatives of the Finance Ministry intelligence bureau (FMIB).
Reports reaching the off ice of Lt Gen (ret) Pelagio A. Cruz, FMIB commissioner,
disclosed that a suspected marijuana cultivator in sitio Leg-leg, Palina, in
Kibungan, Bengu~t, was arrested. Maj Cecilio Dalomias, chief of the FMIB
intelligence branch, identified him as Artemio Sagaya. He was taken to the CANU
regional office in Baguio city. Dalomias said the raid at Tabuyon creek in
Pantabangan, Nueve Ecija resulted in the seizure of some 10,000 marijuana plants.
In the Benguet raid, a team of anti-narcotics operatives--Capt Enrique Caudra,
Sgts Vic Amoto and Jaime Palomares, and FMIB agents Clark Din, Francisco Princesa.
Jr., and Max Olivares--uprooted 1,149 marijuana plants and seized several kilos of
marijuana leaves. [Text; iManila BULLETIN TODAY in English 19 June 81 p 5]
CSO: 5300/4948
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THAILAND
LARGE OPIUM HARVEST IN GOLDFN TRIANGLE EXPECTED
Parls LE MATIN in French 23 Apr 81 p ly
~ [Article by Herve Chabalier: "Record Opium Crop in the Golden Triangle"]
~Text] Drug specialists posted in Thailand fear a veritable "white tidal wave."
_ In a few days new heroin will be coming out of the clandestine laboratories in-
stalled in the heart of the Golden Triangle on the border between Burma and ~
Thailand. And the 1981 delivery promises to be particularly abundant. American,
French, Italian and Australian specialists posted in Bangkok and in charge of the
fight against international drug traffic are even talking about a"white tidal
wave."
Excelient weather conditions--a climate that is neither too dry nor too humid--
explain the record opium crop from the Golden Triangle: 450 tons in Buz-~na, 70
tons in Laos and 50 in Thailand. The whole of this production, after refining,
is going to give some 60 tons of very high quality heroin--essentially heroin
No. 4, only a small part has been processed as heroin No. 3(brown sugar). Powder
of this type is obtained after the addition of strychnine and caffeine; less pure
- than heroin No. 4, it can be smoked by drug addicts. ~
In previous years about 50 percent of the production of Asiatic heroin was consumed
within the region. General Chavalit, deputy director of the Central Office of
- Thai Narcotics asserts that over one percent of the Thai population is addicted .
to drugs. Probably 500,000 Thais are hooked on hard drugs (heroin or brown sugar).
_ For the urban area of Bangkok alone, General Chavalit estimates the number of
drug users to be 30U,000. The other ma~or groups of drug consumers in Southeast
Asia are found in Burma (250,000), in Malaysia (285,000) and in Hong Kong (38,000).
About half of the remaining 50 percent of the production of heroin is exported
to Europe and Australia, and a small amount (12 percent) is sent to the United
States. But the abundance of the 1981 crop is going to make it diff icult to sell
off the entire amount of the produc::ion. There is a chance that for a while the
supply will be greater than the demand. Opium, which was usually bought from the
farmer at 2,000 francs per kilo, is being negotiaLed this year at 1,000 francs.
This drop in rates probably should not really have any repercussions on the retail
selling of heroin. Inspector Michel Humbert, representing the French office of
narcotics in Bangkok, estimates that a gram of powder will be sold in Paris at a
price between 800 and 1,200 francs, and could promptly go down to 500 franes.
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For the dealers the profits still remain as enormous as before. With one kilo
of heroin, after blending (especially with lactose), 10 kilograms of "Par�~sian"
heroin can be "made." Example: 100 grams of heroin are bought for 10,000 francs
in Bangkok. These 100 grams become one kilo in Paris. This powder will be resold
on the average at 800 francs per gram to ~unkies. The Lransaction will thus have
- brought in 80 times the outlay.
- The fear of not finding the necessary markets for selling off the 1981 heroin has,
it seems, compelled the Chinese gangs who control the refining an.d traffic of
heroin in the Golden Triangle to launch an attack on the heroin produced in the
Near East, a competitor of the Asiatic pawder. Very recently, in Amsterdam, 26
drug addicts died and 22 others had to be hoapitalized, some of them made blind,
after using the powder from the Near East.
Numerous narcotics specialists in 3angkok think that the Chinese community of
- Amsterdam, on orders from Chinese dealers, sabotaged this heroin. Deemed dangerous
- by Dutch ~unkies, heroin from the Near East was left aside in favor of the white
stuff from Southeast Asia!
According to Thai narcotics authorities, an increased supplying of the French
market with heroin No. 4 can likewise be expected. The convoying of the drug
will e~sentially continue to be insured by the litCle ants (drug addicts who make
the trip from Bangkok to buy the drug that they personally need, and bring back
- a few dozen grams for resale). France still remains outside of the major traffic
networks, the connections; the French milieu not having succeeded in reaching an
understanding and collaborating with the Chinese milieu. But Western policemen
stationed in Bangkok fear that the regrouping of refugees from Southeast Asia,
particularly in Paris, may quickly result in the creation of "Chinatowns" which
the Chinese milieu could use as a base for o~~erations.
In Thailand itself, the starting up of the atruggle against the Chinese milieu
~ is only lukewarm. While certain police divisions such as the narcotics specialists
are trying to combat the traffickers, they still have not succeeded in blowing up
thP partnerships from which local heroin bosaes benefit at very high levels, nor
in efficiently opposing the malpractices of all kinds that are fostered by per-
vasive corruption.
Everybody here knows that 70 percent of the refining and trafficking of heroin
from the Golden Tr~.angle is in the hands of the Shan United Army (SUA), an army
of Chinese nationalists installed between Thailand and Burma. It has been a long,
long while since those Chinamen gave any thought to reconquering socialist China,
but they have become authentic malefactors. They control some ten clandestine
lnboratories: each one of the laboratories is guarded by 25 SUA soldiers, and
possesses sophisticated means of communication.
; For years they have been playing hide-and-seek with the Thai and Burmese authori-
ties, moving over to the Burmese side whenever by chance a Thai patrol sticks its
nose into the sector, and going back over to Thailand whenever a group of Burmese
soldiers gets a little too near.
Since the Thais and the Burmese have never succeeded in setting up a 3oint clean-up
operation on each side of the border, the activity of the clandestine laboratories
- has not stopped!
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It seems, however, that t~day, as General Chavalit thinks, the Thai authorities
are inclined to combat the SUA bands. For far too many years the authorities over-
looked--or even worse--the SUA's illegal activities. In exchange, the nationalist
Chinese army tracked down in the north of Thailand the Thai communist resistance
fighters; Bangkok was much more worried about the red danger than about the damage
and the havoc resulting from the white powder.
The tremendous growth in the number of Thai drug addicts within recent years has
convinced part of the Thai leaders that heroin is becoming the main enemy. "The
spread of drugs speeds up the rotting process of the entire social structure,
and, in the long run, favors the devel,opment of subversive, communist ideas,"
I was assured by a Thai military man. In short, it looks as if SUA's better days
are now being threatene3.
An earnest willingness to struggle against the production and spread of heroin
is starting to appear in Thailand; but that does not mean that quick results are
to be expected. For over S years the Americans have been providing the Thai
authorities with substantial subsidies for changing production over from poppy
crops. Of the 750 villages in the Golden Triangle (Burma, Thailand, Laos) which
live off of poppies, barely 50 have discarded the opium plant as of now.
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THAILANb
GOLDEN TRIANGLE LIFE WITN OPIUM ;ARDS DES~RIBED
Paris LE FIGARO in French 1 Jun 81 p 11
[TextJ On the border between Thailand and Burma Serge Chauvel-Leroux passed
himself off as a trafficker. "Any heroin? Y~s, 32,500 francs a kilo."
Replaced for the past 3 years by Southwest Asia (Pakistan, Iran, Turkey), which
has been supplying on the whole 1,000 tons of opium a year, for the most part
converted into heroin, the Golden Triangle, that wooded and almost inaccessible
mountainous region straddling the borders of Laos, Thailand and Burma, is now
making a comeback: after 2 years of drought during which production, amounting
to no more than 200 tons, did not even make it possible to cover local needs--
there are 600,000 drug or opium addicts in Thailand out of a population of 46,000,000
, --the 1981 crop wtiich has just ended gives promise of 600 tons of opium (450 tons
from insurrectional Burnia, 80 tons from Thailand).
Three hundred tons will be allocated for the production of 30 tons of heroin
(as compared to 4.5 tons in 19~30), of which 7 tons, the specialists figure, will
go to Europe t~ be added to the 6 tons of heroin from Pakistan, and 2 tons will
go to the United States.
France, where "powder" from Asiatic sources had held out through favoritism--
1,200 francs for a pure gram as against 800 francs for a gram from Pakistani
sources--is the most threatened country, and the result of these huge arrivals
- could be a lowering of prices and an increase in the number of addicts. In this
part of the jungle, between the Burmese and Thai borders, the precocious and violent
rainy seasonT which momentarily removed any chance of military or police operations,
enabled the 15 laboratories on record to operate in relative safety. By pretending
to be ~ potential buyer, one finds out that it is possible to climb up quite f ar
towards these laboratories--export is the weak point of the Chinese traffickers,
and "organized" buyers are not so nunaerous as to be bumping into each other. That
tends to prove that these are the sources regarding which repression would be most
effective. But is that what the countries concerned really want? That, no doubt,
is the crux of the problem.
Seven hours of climbing upward in the mud on 70 percent slopes, going through,
one after the other, villages of those animist tribes--Lissus, Lahu, Akkas--which
� :inhabit the forests, on the southern flank of the chain of mountains which, to the
north of the Mae Kok river, const3tutes the border with Burma. Glimpses from the
= crest line at the Burmese town of Doilang, lost in the mists of heat, where last
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February the Burmese army came from its advanced post of Monghsat to destroy three
refineries that were a bit too evident. Encounters with outposts of those small
private armies (500 men) of those local warlords who~"have a hold on" opium and
heroin, but for whom the essential part of the job is to make war on each other.
Then the drop down into Burma, going towards the refinery.
Cutting a hole through the vegetation, at these altitudes (1,500 meters) accessible
- only by mule trails, a dirt road, well gravelled, well laid out. Quite near, a
Lissu village, with its women in their bright blue costumes striped with colored
- strips, and its chief, the same one as for drugs, the real one, trying to assume
the style of a"rich, golf-playing Chinaman."
The standard amount of 700 grams of Heroin No. 4(94 percent pure) is worth 200,000
bahts (SO,OUO francs) in Bangkok, but here the 1980 stocks are being sold off.while
the 1981 supply is being prepared: 90,OOU bahts (23,000 francs) for 700 grams,
130,000 bahts for one kilo, one kilo which in France would be worth 2,500,000
francs. Yes, but the merchandise must be seen. Everybody is armed. This is a
kind of passport here, the sign that you can talk business. A short-barrelled
38 Smith & Wesson purchased the day before in Wavi for 5,500 bahts (1,400 francs)
is going to be my visa.
Following the road from below, a small band sets out. At about 5 o'clock in the
afternoon the first house is at hand, the only solidly built house in the area,
from which an fntense billow of smoke with a definite chemical odor is rising.
Three men, well-equipped young Chinamen (M 16s, M J9 grenade rockets) come for-
_ ward. No apparent tension. The men are near the refinery (one kilometer further
on), but for the time being what interests them is that they have disCOVered the
tracks of two deer! Then, in the greenish humidiCy, the hunt begins. Photos are
permitted, with the stone house in the corner of the viewfinder sometimes (it is,
in fact, a drying installation).
The Kuomintang's Army
The squad chief speaks English. What is the currency in which the payment would
- be made? In French francs. An expression of distaste on his part. The franc
is down, and he is very familiar with the exchange rates. Dollars could be used
for the payment, but they are in a safe in Bangkak. That does not upset him: by
paying 3U0,000 bahts a kilo (75,000 francs) you buy the road up to that point.
~ Then what? He pulls out the card of an export firm dealing in frozen foods based
in the outskirts of 13angkok: all you have to do is buy half a ton of shrimp,
thzt's quite cheap.
The young Cliinaman speaks in the manner of a p.erson who is quite sure of total
impunity: tt~e Burmese army, busy in the north, near Panghsang, with the rebellion
of. the pro-Chinese PC in which it is losing 100 men a month, hardly ever shows
up here, and the Thais cease their operations at the crest line constituting the
border.
Between these Chinamen and the tribes of the villages the contrast is striking--
_ which explains their rather easy seizure of the drug market: in the evening, on
the Wan Ho Mong road in Burma, the tribal chief confesses that, all things con-
sidered, he would prefer to be paid with 500 M 16 cartridges pex kilo--with a
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lit~le bargaining he would even come down to 300. His village lives in absolute
poverty, even though he grows opium on patches of burnt land in Burma. In spite
of doubling the areas under cultivation and the extraordinarcy crop, the rates have
slumped, and this year his production is being bought at only 150 or 200 dollars
per kilo, as against 550 in 1980. Now the village depends 90 percent on opium
for its subsistence. And then the main problem, for him as for the other trib~s,
is that two-thirds of his harvest automatically go to the local warlord. I talk
to him about Chang Chi-fu, that 45-year-old Chinaman9 born into a princely family
on the border of Yunnan near (lU0 kilometers) his "capital", Banhin Tek. His only
comment is that there are some names which must not be mentioned.
Skirting around, on the Burmese side, the crests (1,700 meters) of Doi Sam ~~ao
Noi, avoiding the road to Monghsat, which is always likely to be patrolled by the
fiurmese army, going through two deserted villages, one again comes upon the Thai
"border," tlie Mae Salong garrison, occupied by th~ little that is left of the once
brilliant fifth army of Kuomintang of Chiang Kai-shek, and, in an Akka village,
a Toyota jeep, whose driver agrees to take the small dirt road leading to the
headquarters of the all-powerful Chang Chi-fu.
The bridge on the Mae Kham river leading to Banhin Tek has been blown up for the
past 3 days, since, to be precise, the day when former colonel Nirand, leading the
antinarcotics brigade to the regional capital of Chieng Mai, was put on the wanted
list for tranaporting 58 kilos of heroin, and so one must approacr Banhin Tek
- rather ingloriously carrying one's clothes',on one's heafl.
The major role of Chang Chi-fu in the trafficking of heroin has been well known
since the seventies. His stronghold has been the subject of numerous observations
from the air, and, on several occasions, the last one being in February 1981,
operations that are sometimes Burmese, sometimes Thai, have tried to drive out
his private army, S,OOd well-trained and well-armed men.
Caution, Mined Land
But each time, as if by miracle, it has seemed that Chang Chi-fu was notified
of the imminence of these attacks; consequently he took refuge, now on the Thai
side, now on the other side of the crests, five kilometers away, in Burma. The
Burmese operations, lead by Brigadier General Hlau from Kengtung, seemed, however,
to have been well set up by that army in which, at least, corruption does not hold
sway over everything. Chang Chi-fu's clever trick, from the Thais' point of view,
was to present himself as an independentist leader of the Shahn tribes--his militia,
moreover, is called the Shahan United Army, and at the entrance of the town can
be found a billboard in Chinese, Shahn and Thai writing. "We do not want to run
into the same problems with minorities that the Burmese are having," a Thai offi-
ctal w~s to admit to me later to explain his government's lack of action in face
of Chaiig Chi-fu's private army. "Our Burmese border is the only one where we do
not }~ave too much to fear."
Banhin Tek, for anybody who has gone through the wretched villages in the area,
is all of a sudden the modern world, without the disco-Coca Cola aspect found in
Thailand: carefully built brick houses, powerful electrical networks, schools,
football and basketball fields, official courts decorated with two dragons. The
population is young, in good health, prosperous. On1y one resource: heroin.
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I n a t~ouse ncar tl~c Fur end oE tlie town, a man about 30 years old y who says he used
to be a cameraman, and who speaks impeccable English, spends his time setting up
press files with clippings about legal pro..eedings ag~inst Colonel Nirand. Chang
Chi-fu himself is one kilometer higher up, at San Son Pin Non, but he is not to
be seen. The young man asks for passports. 'I'hen he brings out a text in French
_ about a ground-graund wired missile built in France. T'he following leaflet is
about the Crotalus ground-air missile: the young man asks ~a to translate into
English some French words which he does not know. Then an older man comes in and
- takes notes. Drugs? No, of course there aren't any here; in Burma maybe; it is
not far away; go see, but be careful; it is mined.
Near there, a post belonging to the Thai border patrol police, the border guards
of Thailand. The presence is symbolic, 20 men cooped up behir.~d sandbags. These
are the men who, in Tebruary 19t~0, when the Burmese army was preparing its surprise
attack, gave the alarm by opening fire off schedule, enabling ~'!zang Chi-fu to
flee by tielicopter.
The Guerillas of the PC
Under its external appearance of "modernity", Chang Chi-fu`s authority is exercised
without restraint in the broad area stretching from Mai Sai to Mae Hong Son, far-
ther to the west, ~ahich is on the way to becoming the easiest (being the least
watched) exit door for the heroin from the refineries under his control. The army
of the Muser tribcs and three other small Shahn armies serve him as relay stations.
His chief of staff, ~halang, a native of Manchuria, is a bloc3thirsty brute c~~ho,
not long ago, had an Akka chief cut up alive, accusing him of having betrayed
him, and ordered that the pieces be thrown to the dogs. Three-fourths of the
heroin refineries come directly under his control, and, despite his professed anti-
communism, (he sometimes served as a helping force for the Thai army to combat
PC resistance fighters near Chieng Rai) he buys a large part of his raw opium from
the Burmese PC gueriilas established in the north of his area, opium about which,
furthermore, there is some. question as to whether or not it comes from China.
As for the 3rd and 5th Chinese armies of Kuomintang which, until the middle seventies
had been the first to throw themselves on a grand scale into the drug traffic,
tttey were eliminated from the land by Chang Chi-fu--and, at the same time, they
signed an agreement with the Thai government whereby they agreed to repress nar-
cotics by means of a payment of 80,OOU bahts a month per army. The loss of re-
sources resulting from all this has had a demoralizing effect on the troops.
General Lao Li, having started out as an ordinary small-time dealer in T.ndochina,
and having become the chief of the third army established in Than Ngop, ~ear Fang,
has just had several r.ecalcitrant soldiers shot.
In Mae Salong, seat of the fifth army, where general Lui Sen Sen, badly shaven,
- ragged and swearing that he speaks only Chinese, replaced last year, at the time
of his death, General Duang, the brilliant officer of the Chinese military academy
and a favorite of Chiang Kai-shek, the misery which reigns contrasts singularly
with the prosperity of Banhin Tek, which, however is quite nearby. In the rain
and the mud one gets the impression of seEing once more the pictures of the Citroen
cruises.' The soldiers are not paid and do not receive anything but their meals
" and one of those houses made of planks that remind on~ of the rush towards the
west. To keep alive they have to take part in almost suicidal missions in Laos.
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Out of the 500 a?en who left a month earlier for the other side of the Mekong,
60 had been killed on the day of the crossing, and there were 100 wounded, the
goal of the operation having been to check to see if there were still some Ameri-
cans in the prison camps. In the barracks, children were studying by the light
of kerosene lamps in the hope of obtaining a scholarship to go to the engineering
school in Taiwan. One of these lost officers of the K. M. T. told me: "Today I
could be the director of a naval shipyard in Taiwan. I have remained out of faith-
fulness towards my men." Relations with Chang Chi-fu? He laughed: "They are
good. We do not bother him any more." And for good reason....
[BOX INSERT]
Tomorrow, in its Tuesday news special, TF 1 will devote its weekly documentary to
- the young French peopls--at present there are around thirty of them--who are serving
very long terms in Thai prisons. The single cause for Che sentencings: drugs.
- From Chieng-Mai to Bangkok Herve Chabalier and Jean-Pierre Moscardo have brought
back very upsetting--and most dissuading--pictnres of heroin traffic in Thailand.
Our reporter, Serge Chauvel-Leroux, followed this heroine trail in the north of
Thailand as far as the refineries tucked away in the ~ungles, shelrPred in the
insurrectional provinces of Burma. First finding: in these zones drugs are a
real lndustry, and ttie merciless repression of small dealers from the West probably
~ i.s only a cover-up for organized activity at a much higher level.
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THAILAND
NARCOTICS AGENTS SEIZE 58 KG OF HEROIN BASE
Bangkok BANGKOK PQST in English 14 May 81 pp 1, 3
, [Text] Police in Bangkok and the North are searching for
a former seni~r narcotics unit police officer who is
wanted in connection with one of the biggest heroin sei-
zures in Thailand in years, an authoritative source told
the POST yesterday.
Police Chief Suraphol Chunladphram yesterday issued a nationwide warrant for
the arrest of the officer, Pol Col Niran Withayawuthikun, the superintendent
of the Zone 3 Provincial Police Logistics Unit in Lampang.
Col Niran, who headed the Chiang Mai Provincial Narcotics Unit from 1977-79,
is believed to have fled to Lampang from the capital on Tuesday night only
hours after four men were arrested in the parking lot at Bangkok's Liberty
Hotel with 58 kilogrammes of lieroin base.
Those arrested in the raid, mounted by an Office of the Narcotics Control
Board (ONCB) team, included a former Zone 3 Provincial Police private.
ONCB Secretary General Pol Ma~ Gen Phao Sarasin described Tuesday's seizure as
the "largest haul in three years" and estimated its value on the local market
at about 10 million baht. '
a
Those arrested on Tuesday were identified as Inkham (alias Khamai) Kanthama, 49,
Sawat Duangkaeo, 31, Bunloet Phantasi, 41, all Chiang Mai residents, and Pol Pvt
Mangkon Duangsaeng, who was formerly attached to the Zone 3 Provincial Police.
The three Chiang Mai men have records for drug offences while Pol Pvt Mangkon
is also wanted on an asault charge in Chiang Mai following a shooting in Octo-
ber last year in which a policeman was seriously wounded. He received disci-
plinary punishment and was dismissed from service but is still wanted on the
charge .
The heroin base, packed in 120 blocks, was found hidden in secret seat compart-
ments in a white Toyota pick-up truck bearing Chiang Mai licence plates. It had
been driven to Bangkok by SawaC with Mangkon as his passenger. The other two
men travelled in Inkham's Volvo sedan.
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In each vehicle police found walkie-talkie radios reportedly owned by the Zone
3 Provincial Police and signed out of its office by Col Niran.
Col Niran reportedly came to Bangkok the same day as the other four to oversee
_ the delivery operat " ~n.
Ma~-Gen Phao said it was believed that the heroin base was to be delivered to
a man identified as Sirya Khuanrakcharoen (alias Chitak Kung sae Kow). He said
police are searching for both Suriya and his wife who had managed to evads
arrest.
The he�roin base, which can be processed into either No 3("Brown Sugar") or
high-grade No 4 heroin is believed to have been destined for overseas markets.
It was possibly going to be processed at a refinery along the bandit-infested
border with Malaysia before being smuggled abroad.
Maj-Gen Phao said the gang had been closely watched bythe ONCB and US Drug En-
forcement Administration (DEA) agents since 1979. He also alleged that Inkham
had for many years been supplying arms to Burmese minority groups operating in
the North.
Meanwhile, the Commander of the Zone 3 Provincial Police, Pol Ma~-Gen Surachit
Panyarachun has ordered police in the North to track down Pol Col Niran in an
effort which will be concentrated in Lampang and Chiang Mai provinces.
Col Niran was reportedly seen in Lampang Province yesterday afternoon driving
a brown Toyota Corolla. Chiang Mai police found no trace of him yesterday
during a search of his house in Saraphi District on the outskirts of the Northern
capital.
- During his term as chief of Chiang Mai Provincial Police Narcotics Unit, Col
Niran figured in some ma~or drugs seizures.
According to a narcotics official in the North, he also played a ma~or role in
the March 1976 arrest of alleged Chiang Mai drug dealer Arun Nanawichit who was
_ nabbed with a large quantity of opium and morphine in his possession. ~
Col Niran is the second seniox police oPficer from the North to be implicated
in a big narcotics deal.
In 1974, a~oint Thai-US narcotics team raided a heroin refinery in a lamyai
plantation owned by the then deputy chief of Lamphun Police, Pol Lt Col Sawai
Piiu t t t~arak .
T.t Col Sawai was in his house at the time of the raid, but managed to escape
arrest and has since been in hiding.
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CANADA
HEROIN SELLER JAILED FOR 15 MONTHS
Vancouver THE VANCOWER SUN in English 21 May 81 p A3
[TextJ
~ Judg~ Wallace Opell rejected a de-~ He said Ratcliffe "is a feckless by-` charges of selling a gun and stolen'
fence of entrapment and jailed a man. product of the luat of the RCMP for property to an ACMP undercover fenc-
- for 15 months in New Westminster securingcriminalconvicti~nns." . iag operation called "GYA (Got You
County Court Wednesday for selling If sentence was pasaed he said, the Again) Enterprises." .
Eive caps of heroin to an undercover court would be licencing the use oi = It said Brown told the court he did not
RC;1~P officer. agents prbvocateur, adding it would'. appear as scheduled on Apri17 because
However, the judge. imposing his create the "potential for law enforee- he had been "apprehended" by the
first sentence since his appointment to ment authorities to consider it a�licence RCMP outside the court and taken to a
the bench, said the term was less than for creating crimes for the purpose of jail cell in Sooke, west of Victoria, and
usual for .such an offence by ~ crian of proseeution." ' held without charge for 24 hours. .
_ the accused's record "because of the dustice department pras~cutor Ren ~ Brown claimed the police were
extenuating circumstances." Yule said there was no entrapment. trying to keep him from testifyina and
Stephen Ratcliffe, 26, will serve the' "The temptation was presented (by waraed: "1 shouId atay clear out of
sentence concurrent wit~ 30 months he� Srown) and he (Ratcliife) succumbed." Vancouver because if I went into
is serviag for other offences. ' For ~its claim of "entrapment," the Oakalla to do time my life wouldn't be .
The defence argued fellow prisoner: defence relied on transcrip~s of swom worth a plugged nickel."
Anthony Garfield Brown 41, deacribed teatimony by Brown who was paid by Assistaat deputy attorney-general ~
as "an RCMP bounty hunter," began the RCMP for his "bounty hunter" Alan Filmer told The Sun the allega-
- his "entrapment" of Ratcliffe by "re- work at the rate of i100 and upfor each tiooa made by Bmwn are being investi- .
addicting" him to 6eroin at Oakalla. "transactioa." ;g6ted internallY by the ACMP. ,
. Court was told the two met at a half- Rhodea said _ he intended to call The transcript of the Aori1.21 hear-
- w a y house just outside the gatea of ~ Browa as a witneei but had beea unable in8, on whic6 the Sua :~t ~~y of~ May 9
Oakalla and in a one-room trailer on to contaM hlm because of "disclo- was based, was�admitted ay an exhibit'
the grounds, where Browa persuaded surea" ia "a atory in The Sua (May 9) by Judge Oppal, as well as a transcript
Ratcliffe to start using heroin agaia. � aad I think he tnay'be apprehensive as of out-of-court testimony by Brown on
'Defence counsel Mike Rhodes said a naultof that." � April 14 before Ahodes and an official
the sale of the heroin to ufldercover offl- The Sua story,. base~ on a transcript ~ou rt reporter. '
cer Const. Edward Kinas on March 28, of the Vancouver County Court hear- �
1980 for E175 was "lergely a cnanufac- iAa, said t4at oa Apri121 Brown testi- ~
tured offence." fied at the ~ senteacing: of RatcliHe on
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CANADA
_ MORPHINE IMPORTER SENTENCED TO LIFE TERM
Toronto THE GLOBE AND MAIL, NATIONAL EDITION ia English 27 May 81 p 9
[Text]
What ~ a judge has ware Avenue, was con- at Toronto~ Western- In Ms stacement to
decribed as the case ot victed in absentia lasC Hospital [or an apparent police, ~ Mr. StasEk said
the H.3-million stomach Feb. 9 0[ smuggling bowel obstruction. he and tour other men
has netted a drug im- three-quarters of a p~~n sur ery, a arranged to �buy the
porter a sentence o( lite pound ot morphine [rom g g morphine in Afghani-
in penitendary. Afghanistan~ into Cana- surgeon~ "much to his stan tor H.000. Mr. Sta-
Frantisek Stasek, 3~1. da by swaliowing 27 amazement", began ~k invested 51~000,
was not in court yester- condoms tull ot the sub- extracting the triple-~~ trom which he� stood to
day to hear his sen-, stance. W~PP~ ~~ms "like gain at least ~0,000,
tence. He umped bail a child taking cookies Judge Cartwright heard
midway ~rough his ~~ice have testitied ~t ot -a cookie jar, at the trial.
trail last February and ~e morphine had an Judge Cartwright said ~~How can one hope to
estlmated street value y~terda,y. uate that 60-told rotit
- is still at large. ~ p
ot i4.3-million.
"For this merchant ot Twenty-tive packages with the human misery
death, the sentence is Mr. Stasek's scheme' were removed trom Mr. that would be intlicted
lite in prison," York was discovered on Nov. Stasek's body in haspi- by Mr. Stasek and his
County Court Judge Ian 1~, 1979, when he be- tal. He later admitted to three basiness ass~i- .
Cartwright said yester- came seriously ill while the RCMP that he ex- ates upon addicts, their
day, still carrying the drugs creted two more while tamilies and triends?'�
Mr. Stasek, ot Dela- and underwent sur3ery in Europe. Judge Cartwright said.
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CANADA
- PROSECUTORS EASING UP ON CANNABIS IMPORTERS
_ Toronto THE GLOBE AND MAIL, NATIONAL EDITION in English 28 May 81 pp 1, 2
[Article by Patricia Horsford and Kathleen Engman]
[Text) Prosecutors have in almost all cases stopped enforcing federal laws that
make cannabis imp~rting a criminal offence punishable by no less than seven years
in jail.
_ Acting under confidential guidelines issued by top officials in the federal Depart-
ment of Justice last September, police and prosecutors are proceeding with
i~orting charges only where the drugs are crossing the border as part of a major
commercial venture.
The guidelines, which are issued to the prosecutors under the authority of federal.
Justice Minister Jean Chretien, mean that virtually all importers of marijuana,
hashish and hash oil are being charged not with importing but with the lesser
offence of possession of a narcotic for the purposes of trafficking, which car-
- ries no minimum sentence.
Critics say that the Government is in effect changing the narcotics laws without
goi:.g ~hrough proper parlia~nentary channeis, and that police and civil servancs--
however beneficent their motives--are usurping a responsibility entrusted to
Parliament.
"Parliament in its wisdom has seen fit to impose a minimum sentence of sevF:n years
- for importing cannabis producCs. The Department of Justice in its wisdom, as a
matter of policy, has decided to disregard the express wishes of Parliamex~t,"
Paul Copeland, a Toronto lawyer, wrote in~the Criminal Lawyers Associati~n news-
letter in April.
"While I think that a mandatory minimum sentence of seven years for importing
cannabis products is cruel and unusual punishment, I believe it is time for the
Liberal Government to vary the law by way of legislation rather than by adminis-
trative decision."
What's more, the changes are secret--details of the guidelines are known only to
top Justice Department officials, federal prosecutors and the police.
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"We are all in the daric," Judge Wil-~ 'country give a number of i~easons tor
liam Richards oi Brampton Frovincial the chan8e in the guidelines:
Court has said. "If the police, in con- � A Year ago, Mr. Chretien an-
junction with the tederal department (of nounced in the Aouse . ot Commons
Justice , are of the mion that a seven- ame"~dments the laws gavern-~
) ~P~ ing cannabis oHences would be intro-
year minlmum jail sentence is too harsh duced "in a tew weeks." That an-
...(they are)' usurping the functlon ot nouncement was a major. cause ot the .
the Legislature." ~ changes because 11~'� Cbr~ien has
In Canada's ma'or dru -im rtin indlcated the amendments, which still
] B Po B have not been introduced~ will elimi-
centres ot Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal nate the mandatory seven-year jail
and Halitax, the nutnber ot importing , term ior importing.
charges pending has been reduced W a~ � Adverse publicity surratnding the
trickle, chiet prosecutors for those citles ~ se~-Y~r �10~~g
said in recent interviews. and the Department ot Justice was
"Does that ~surprise you?" ~ asked ~O"~~g ~cT~~B~y t�.
Dou las Ruthertord, tederal assistant public crltlcism.
6 � Publlc aitrage was fueiled last
deputy attorney general for criminal, ~~g W~ ~.y~-0ld Darlene Bald-
law, in a recent interview. "Gang rap- w~n waa sentenced w seven years tor
ists don't go w jail for seven years crossing tbe border with two people
- now." wtw carried under three po~u~ds ot
Successive fede!~l attorneys-g~eral hash all. She carried none�
have promised amendments relaxing ~ M~'~~~ �t ~~O
narcotic.s laws since 1974, Mr. Ruther- ~ ~~H~ tor the
- tord sa~id, and until those changes are in . She was charged with posses-
place "the administrative side oi ov- sion tor the purposes ot traiticking
g and ~~recelved a 12~month sentence.
ernment has got to c~rry-on in a ratlonal The third accused, Peter Bauer~ dis-
way." aPP~~ ~ was sentenced to 10
The Department ot Justice has always years in absentia. �
had seccet guidelines governing import- ~ Judicial cengure ot the seven-year
in o[fences, and has pmgressively minimum was also incr~asing. Judges
g recognize that cannabis importers are
relaxed them since 1974, Mr. Ruther- ~~~y j~~ ~p,~ _ y~ p~1e
tord said. with good backgrounds w6o are lured
But until last fall, the sole criterion ~~g ~gs by ~he promise ot
was quantity. according w Gerald s1~p00 and a tree trip W an exotic
McCracken, senior praaecuWr tor place, Judge Richards ot the Bramp�
Southern Ontario. , ton Provincial Cottrt said cecently.
Now the ~uidelines tell prasecuWrs~ ~y go ~ jail tor seven years while
co proceed with importing charges the organizers don't even get caught,
only where a judge would impose a he said.
jait term of seven years it uuham- � A Justice Department survey
pered b~r the mandawry minimum. showed judges were cr~eting out sen-
Mr. McCracken said this opens up a tences ot less than two years for pos-
var~ety ot tactors W be taken into session tor the purposes of tratflckinB�
account in determining what charges ~,y w~ a g;~ that a seven-year
to lay: the age, character and back- p~ity tor Importing was not in line ~
ground of the accused, [or example, p~l~ jy~~~ ~ publlc
and the amount and value~ot the im- .
ported dlvg, the position ot the aa ~ A great deaY ot c.ourt tlme was
cused in any organized ettort to bring nt importing charges~
drugs into the country. and the amount a~~i~~~
pubtic expen.ge. Al-
ot caoperation oftered tn police and m~ ~ryone charged with imPort-
prosecutors. ing was going through a tull prelimi-
Jutius Isaacs, chlet prosecutor in nary hearing ay well as a tull trial.
Edmonton. said the degree ot contrnl J~ge~~~ said, 'fiis can take
the accused person exercised aver the weeks ot couri time at about i600 an
_ drug is also a tactor, since people~ ~r,
involved in importing schemes do not M~~~en said ~mporters are
always carry the drugs themselves. ~~g ~arg~ arith the lesser
- But the key factor ls that Judges oH~~, ~~y ~ Q1~~8 gu~ity and
tend to Impose sentences o[ less than ~LLy ~ourt time, ~
two years unless the importing is part But criUcs argue it ls up W Paziia-
o! a major commercial venture. ment W change the law it importing
Otficials in the Justice Department ~}~~,y ~~ger going W be laid.
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�'Who the hell are they (tederal
prosecutors) to decide that a guy with
one pound should anly get six
montas whereas a guy that brings in
six pounds stwuld get seven years?"
argues Patrick Duffy, a defence law-
yer who was a tederal ptvsecutor
himselt tor more than l0.years.
Tt~ee secrecy ot the guideW~es and
the relatively irequent changes they
undergo have aLso been the sub
ject ot
heeted critlc~sm and judlcial ccnsure.
Hut� Mr. Rutherford and othec otfi-
cials retuse w release details ot the
gtridelines~ saying disclaeure' would ~
lead people W start importinH drugs
within the sate limits. .
"Sea~s don't tell Eatnn's their ~
game plan." Ted 'I'twmas. a ToronW
prosecuWr, said in an interview.
But Mr. Dutfy says that argument
"still dcesn't get away fmm the fact
that an unnamed. unknown, unrea-
chable employee ot the civil service is
deciding the tate ot someone facing an
importing charge." ,
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- CANADA
BRIEFS
POT POSSESSION TO REMAIN CRIME--Solicitor-General Robert Ka.plan said Tuesday that
possession of cannabis drugs such as hashish and marijuana will remain an offence
under amendments to drug laws to be brought before Parliament. "But the law will
be modernized to bring it more into line with current values and concerns," Kaplan
- told the Commons justice committee. He was before the committee to answer ques-
tions about spending estimates by his department, which includes the RCMP and
the federal prison system. Kaplan did not say when amendments to the drug laws
wi11 be introduced. They have been promised for years; but the last amendments
introduced died on the order paper in 1975. Kaplan said cannabis drugs will be
moved from the Narcotics Control Act to the Food and Drug Act, which provides for
lighter penalties for possession and related offences such as trafficking and
importing. Currently, a conviction for importing mari3uana carries a mandatory
minimum seven-year sentence under the Narcotics Control Act�s severe provisions.
[Text] [Ottawa THE CITIZEN in English 20 May 81 p 19]
FIVE CHARGED IN DRUG SEIZURE--Five persons are facing drug charges after Ontario
Provincial Police seized an estimated $20,000 worth of drugs in the Morrisburg
area during the weekend. An OPP spokesman said about 4,000 tablets of LSD were
seized in a car at the intersection of Highways 31 and 401. A small quantity of
marijuana and hashish was seized about half an hour later from a residence in
Morrisburg. The spokesman said the seizures and charges followed a two-week
surveillance of residences and vehicles by the Morrisburg OPP and the OPP drug
unit. Appearing in court today to face charges of possession of LSD for the
purpose of trafficking are Allan Cougler, 23, of Morrisburg; John Fahrngruber,
20, of Cardinal; Peter Devries, 19, of Prescott, and Nancy Disheau, 19, of
Morrisburg. Appearing in court June 2 on charges of possession of marijuana and
hashish is Judy Tennant, 19, of Morrisburg. [Text] [Ottawa THE CITIZEN in English
26May81p5]
OTTAWA CAMPAIGN AGAINST MARIHUANA--Ottawa (CP)--The federal Government will launch
a public education campaign on the hazards of smoking marijuana at the same time
it relaxes penalties connected with the drug, Health Minister Monique Begin said
yesterday. She is not yet ready to announce details of the education program, but
did say she wants to avoid the experience of one U~S. state, which sponsored
television messages about the dangers of mari~uana anly to find the ads encouraged
young people to experiment with it. The Government expects that legislation
reducing penalties will be introduced this fall. [Text] [Toronto THE GLOBE AND
MAIL, NATIONAL EDITION in English 13 Jun 81 p 13]
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MEXICO
HEROIN, WEAPQNS SEIZED, TRAFFICKER SOUGHT
Notorious Trafficker Escapes
- Nuevo Laredo EL MANANA in Spanish 13 Jun 81 Sec B p 6
[Text] A kilogram of a brown powder which is apparently heroin and, if it is that
drug, would be worth over 3 million pesos on the United States black market for
drugs, wasseizeclby Federal Judicial Police forces last Tuesday.
Reliable sources told EL MANANA that the owner of this drug is the notorious drug
trafficker Alfredo "Chichi" Martinez, who has a record of over 10 court actions for
drug trafficking in the United States.
The agent of the Federal Public Ministry, Marcelino Garcia Rios, confirmed the
seizure of the drug, but noted that samples of the confiscated powder had been
sent to the laboratories of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic,
- so that the pertinent expert tests could be made and a determination as to whether
or not it is heroin.
The preliminary tests made with suitable reagents to learn whether or not it was
heroin gave posittve results for that alkaloid but, in order to reconfirm this,
the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic must issue its decision.
_ Alfredo "Chichi" Martinez, a dangerou~ criminal and drug trafficker who has been
- in trouble with the justice system on countless occasions, succeeded in escaping,
_ hours before the Federal Judicial Police agents, under orders from the group chief,
Benito Estrada Villagomez, raided his residence located in the Hidalgo development,
and apparently managed to take shelter in Laredo, Texas.
The coordinator of the Federal Public Ministry agencies, Carlos Guilar Garza,
informed EL MANANA that the investigation associated with this case began several
weeks ago, and it was expected to confiscate weapons and marihuana from the
cul~~rit, but that the agents found the heroin shipment which he had already prepared
to sell.
During the investigation conducted by the Federal Judicial Police it was revealed
that "Chichi" Martinez had taken part in several murders, and it was also found
that he and other individuals had planned to execute three persons.
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Either today or next Monday, Aguilar Gar~3 will announce the results of the probe
that the Federal Judicial Police were concinuing yesterday.
U.S. Officials Cooperating
Nuevo Laredo EL MANANA in Spanish 14 Jun 81 Sec D p 4
[Text] The Federal Judicial Police have located Alfredo Martinez, alias "E1 Chichi,"
in an area of the United States near the Laredo border, and have been cooperating
with the authorities in the neighboring country to succeed in capturing him.
Alfredo Martinez, a notorious drug trafficker, managed to evade the action of the
law when forces under orders from Benito Estrada Villagomez, the group chief,
arrived at that individual's house to seize a kilogram of heroin.
Although the police action was extremely cautious, taking place in a matter of
seconds, the drug trafficker, who had been kept under clase surveillance for some
time, succeeded in eluding the stakeout.
It was learned that, in making his escape, "E1 Chichi" crossed the border, entering
American territory, which is the reason for the request for cooperation from the
authorities on that side in locating and immediately deporting him.
From the investigation conducted by the Federal Judicial Police of these incidents,
it was presumed that, in addition to the heroin, they discovered a large amount of
marihuana as well as a veritable arsenal, including arms and ammunition, after it
- was found that the latter were received in exchange for the drugs, which were
- being taken to the United States.
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MEXICO
CURRENT REPORT ON DISCOVERY OF POPPY, MARIHUANA PLANTATION~
Culiacan EL SOL DE SINALOA in Spanish 14 Jun 81 p 7
[Text] Thus far this month, only 14 poppy plantations and one marihuana plantation
have been discovered, and will be destroyed this week by fumigation; and this will
- prompt the personnel from the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic who
are engaged in th~ permanent campaign against drug trafficking to intensify their
reconnaissance activities.
The foregoing information was provided by the coordinator for Zone 06 of the afore-
mentioned campaign, Luis Hector Aviles Castillo, who told this morning paper that
the 37 sections into which the zone is divided, covering an area of 120,000 square '
kilometers, will be combed as many times as necessary, to prevent the spread of
the planting, cultivation and harvesting of drugs.
Aviles Castillo remarked that the entire mountain area of the state, as well as the
borders with Chihuahua and Durango, including part of those territories (Guadalupe
and Calvo, Canelas, Tamazula, etc.), comprise Zone 06, and that the 11 helicopters
of the Attorney General's Office, together with the two small planes, would be sent
t!-~ere to make the reconnaissance tours.
He added that the attorney general, Oscar Flores Sanchez, has been constantly order-
ing an increase in the activities aimed at preventing the growing of drugs in the
entire country, and that, in compliance with those instructions, the coordinating
forces are working untiringly to attain the goals that have been assigned to them.
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MEXICO
COURT RELEASE OF TRAFFICKERS CRITICIZED
Coverup Claimed
Nuevo Laredo EL DIARIO DE NUEVO LAREDO in Spanish 6 Jun 81 Sec C p 8
[Textj The fraudulent investigation made of the drug trafficking ringleader, Antonio
"Tony" Rivera, and his partner, Oacar Constancio Macias Gutierrez, paved the way for
the third district ~udge to issue an order for release, thereby questioning whether
the federal ~ustice system too enjoys good deals, because now individuals who were
less implicated in this illegal business are serving years in jail for a"mischievous
_ slip." �
In view of these incidents, it is actually believed that the Office of the Attorney
General of the Republic should send investigative agents as quickly as possible so
that what might be regarded as a"crime of public officials" will not be committed,
and those responsible for having falsified part of the statements, in violation of
justice, will be held for trial as a measure and a relief for the population, which
trusts in good government.
In the Jail They Know Nothing
The deputy warden of the jail, Arturo Reyes Cisneros, who himself has a"bad reputa-
tion," when asked whether he had received an order for the release of Constancio
Macias and Antonio Rj.vera,usin~ the excuse of going to "look for them," because he
claimed he did not work yesterday, left the earphones with one of the secret staff
members and, of course, because of the "necessary commitment" to check, gave the
reply that the information could only be given by the third district court.
The "deal" involving the departure of these two powerful drug trafficking ringleaders
who had spent years moving drugs along the border from Guadala~ara took place yester-
day afternoon and (undtrstandably) it was very difficult to explain it to the public
as "innocent."
Tlie Press Was Decei~red
Unfortunately, the most compromising act on the part of the federal ~fficial was
_ the deception that he committed with local newsmen, when he said that an order for
- official imprisonment would be issued for ali those charged in this probe of half
a ton of marihuana. But this was onl,y for purposes of evasion, ~ecause the criminal
release took place at night.
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Although it is, understandably, no surpris2 that federal forces should have such
a foul conscience, this does not explain how they could legally exonerate the "sheiks"
of the traffic from involvement and put the "brunt" of the crime on individuals with
lesser guilt.
It was never dreumed that the press would learn about this sinister move that has
upset the population, which trusted in a good administration of justice, and has
once again received a slap in the face from individuals with the federal "seal"
who are presumably regarded as the most assiduous in establishing the guilt ~f
criminals of this kind.
Against Whom Precautions Must Be Taken. Now
If both Constancio Macias Gutierrez ard his "colleague," Antonio "Tony" Rivera had
admitted to being owners of the drugs which they had ~urchased for 400,000 pesos in
a town in Jalisco, where they had previously been transporting ttiem, how could this
- confession be "suddenly changed" leaving them free of gutlt, and transferring it to
others in the group under arrest who had n~.erely been hired to unload them?
Moreover, there is evidence that Antonio "Tony" Rivera has a record for drug traffick-
ing. Obviously this, and the shipment seized from him, were not clear proof to
convict him, along with his companion, Macias Gutierrez.
As has been noted, this case requires the prompt intervention of the Office of the
Attorney General of the Republic, so as to find out about this "slip" that was
made yesterday, on.e which caused ind.ividuals who are responsible for administering
justice to be exposed.
False Testimony Claimed
- Nuevo Lared~ EL DIARIO DE NUEVO LAREDO in Spanish 7 Jun 81 Sec B g 6
[Text] Supervisory agents of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Narion should came
- to this town to investigate the reasons for the release granted to two international
drug traFficking czars by the third district court.
- This decision struck judicial circles like a"shower of cold water," because Oscar
- Constancio Mancillas Gutierrez and ~,ntonio Rivera Nassar had confessed to the Federal
Judici.al Police and the agency of the Federal Public Ministry that they were the
owners of the half ton of cannabis indica seized, along with a Torton truck, which
disappeared mysteriou~ly with its driver last Saturday, 23 May, from 909 Francisco
Munguia Street.
Tl~e investigation continued after the ring had been brought before the prosecutor,
Marcelino Carcia Rizo. On this occasion, Antonio Rivera Nassar said that his
"p;irtner," Constancio Mancillas, had accompanied him to the town of La Huerta,
,lalisco, where they purchased half a ton of marihuana and paid 400,000 pesos; but
that they had made a"deal," whereby the grass was turned over to them and, after
they had taken it to Houston, Texas, they ~~aould pay the rest.
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Nassar also explained that he ordered Gonzalo Gonzalez Elizondo to hire som~ indivi-
duals to unload the grass, and that the work had just begun when the Federal Judicial
Police captured them.
In the third district courc, some false witnesses told the judge that Rivera Nassar
and Mancillas Gutierrez were not at 909 Fiancisco Munguia Street. This testimony was
believed by the ~udge, and the drug trafficking czars were quickly released, and
fled; and it will be difficult to capture them.
The reporters from this publishing firm engaged in investigating this act, and
succeeded in proving that there was even complicity with the deputy warden of the
prison; because when they questioned Arturo Reyes about the order for release of
these two individuals, he claimed to be unaware of this fact. But well informed
sources stated that he quick~ly telephoned the head of the court, telling him that
the press was already in�ormed, and that they would supposedly print something
about it.
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MEXICO
PRISON OFFICIALS ACCUSED OF CORRUPTION, TRAFFICKING
H. Matamoros EL BRAVO in Spanish 11 Jun 81 Sec A p 15
[Text] The disorder which prevails in the municipal 3ai1 is causing a crisis, owing
to the ineptitude and corruption of the warden, Mario Roldan Gomez. During the past
24 hours, the lOth escape of inmates thus far this year occurred, as did the arrest
of the deputy commander of guards, Roberto Castillo, for drug trafficking; and, in
the city of Brownsville, federal prisoners were seen at large, accompanied by Comdr
Guadalupe Montalvo.
However, the municipal authorities insist upon their intention of retaining Mario
_ Roldan in his capacity as head of the jail, despite the constant problems that he
~ has been causing in that ~ail, giving a bad impression of the administration itself.
The umpteenth escape of inmates occurred about 1300 hours on Tuesday, but it was
learned yesterday that Mario Roldan Gomez had ~oncealed the incident even from the
police forces themselves.
Roldan Gomez concealed the escape of the criminal Mario Escobedo Gonzalez, alias
"La Pocha," for many hours. Late on the night before last, he decided to ask for
the assistance of the police forces, but by then the fugitive had surely reached
the American side.
Yesterday morning, the news circulatEd that the lOth escape had occurred at the
municipal jail, taking place in Uroad daylight and in the presence of the guards
under Mario Itoldan, who does everything but attend to order and respect in the
municipal jail.
Roldan Gomez busies himself with allowing the release of dangerous criminals, in
exchange for generous gifts, al~.lowi:ng'.them to take care of their private affairs,
or even go over to the American side.
While this is happening, there is great dissatis.faction on the part of the unpro-
tected inmates without any money; and so, as soon as they have a chance, they use
it to escape.
After learning about the escape of the criminal Maiio Escobedo, alias "La Pocha,"
~ Roldan Gomez went about for several hours pretending to investigate. That subject
- had been in the ~ail for several months, at the disposal of a district court in
Nuevo Laredo, and action is being taken against him for the crime of steali~g cars
abroad.
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Deputy Comraander Arrested for Drug Trafficking
Moreover, the deputy commander of guards of the local jail is still being held in
the town of Reynosa, at the disposal of the agency of the F~deral Public Ministry,
after having been arrested the day before yesterday by agents of the Federal Judi-
cial Police in that town when a shipment of marihuana was found in his possession.
The deputy commander of guards is Roberto Castillo, who arrived from the interior
section of the country with a moderate amount of marihuana, which he brought to
Matamoros to sell part of it in the United States and some among the addicted
inmates of the municipal jail as well.
In addition, the serious corruption that exists in the municipal jail was also
exposed when, the day before yesterday, two federal criminals were seen at large
in the city of Brownsville, accompanied by the commander of guards, Guadalupe
� Montalvo.
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MEXICO
SCHOOL PRINCIPAL ARRESTED FOR MARIHUANA TRAFFICKING
- Hermosillo EL IMPARCIAL in Spanish 5 Jun 81 Sec A p 9
[Text] Army forces associated with the "Canador" plan under orders from Capt Emerio
Anaya found an Aerocommander aircraft in the municipality of Villa Hidalgo containing
300 kilograms of marihuana and, on the same site, arrested the principal of the Jesus
Garcia Elementary School, Pro~ Miguel Angel Leyva Campa, to be investigated as an
individual presumed guilty of a crime against health, by engaging in the sale of
marihuana among the pupils in the aforementioned establishment.
The foregoing report was made by the agent of the Federal Public Ministry, Ernesto
Avila Triana, who remarked that there may possibly be a relationship between the
marihuana discovered in the airplane and the azorementioned teacher.
He added that the accused denied the charges of being a marihuana seller and luring
children to drug addiction; but there are two addicts who have made chazges against
him in that regard. They are Jesus Hernandez Lugo and Ramon Moreno Garcia.
He went on to say that, in addition, traces of marihuana were found in the house of
, the individual in custody, indicating that large quantities of that drug were
contained in that location. ~
_ Avila Triana said that it is presumed that the subject under arrest was purchasing
- the marihuana primarily in Guaymas, but that it sometimes reached him from other
locations.
Avila Triana noted that an investigation is being conducted of the origin and owner-
ship of the aircraft, because that information is not known as yet.
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MEXICO
SALES OF INHALANTS TO MINQRS BANNED
Culiacan CL SOL DE SINALOA in Spanish 7 Jun 81 p 1
[Text] The Health Control Department o� the State headquarters for Coordinated Public
- Health Services has notified hardware stores, paint shops and stores, warehouses and
_ industries of their obligation to refrain from selling to minors products which could
be used as inhalants to the detriment of their health.
This information was provided by EL SOL DE SINALOA by engineer Rodolfo Castellanos
Rizo, head of that area, who remarked that the bulletin was circulated to all the
business establishments engaged in these activities within the state, so that they
would cooperate w3th the crusade that the authorities have undertaken to seek the
best possible results from their efforts relating to drug addiction.
Castellanos Rizo said that the producers banned from selling to minors are those
- who sell thinners of all types, including paint thinner, adhesives (glue, cement for
the footwear industry, and that for modeling and arts and crafts, the type used for
inner tube patches and contact glue), as well as paint removers and varnishes contain-
ing acetone, dyes for footwear and spot removers for textiles, leather and plastic.
_ Ne stated that, when these products are sold, a record of the sale must be kept in
a book of incoming and outgoing items, so that it may be proven at any given time
that the sales thereof have been made in accordance with the l~gal provisions.
He added that a perio~i of time has been granted for the implementation of t:ze measures,
aimed at insuring compliance with the department's regulations in this respect, and
that those who do not operate in accordance with the new regulation will be subject
to the penalties that the inspectors are dutybound to impose.
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TWO TRAFFICKERS CAPTURED, OPIUM GUM SEIZED
Culiacan EL SOL DE SINALOA in Spanish 8 Jun 81 p 4
[TextJ Federal Judicial Police forces dealt another blow to the drug traffic upon
arresting two individuals presumed guilty of the purchase and sale of drugs, .from
whom 1 kilogram and 944 grams of opium gum, which they intended to process so as
to market it in the form of heroin in the neighhoring country to the north, were
seized.
_ In making the �oregoing report, Miguel Conde Camacho, agent of the Federal Public
Ministry, explained that the subjects in custody are Ramon Sicairos Gastelum and
- Candelario Beltran Meaa, who, after the preliminary investigation had been completed,
were turned over to the first district judge.
The social representative noted that the drugs had been brought from Durango by Beltran
Meza, who was going to sell 1 kilogram thereof to Sicairos Gastelum for 600,000 pesos,
~ so that the latter could process them in a clandestine laboratory, and sell them
subsequently.
In his statements, Beltran Meza said that he had planted, cultivated and harvested a
poppy plantation, from which he extracted the opium gum, on the La Calabaza farm in
the municipality of Tamzula, Durango, and that he had gone to his friend's residence,
located in the 21 de Marzo housing development, near the towers of the Federal
Electricity Commission.
He also confessed that he had concealed the rest of the drugs in his residence, and
hence the same investigators went to that location to seize the container in which
the drugs were kept.
- It was noted in conclusion that all the information which had been provided campleted
the records, and the individuals ur.der arrest were sent to the IRSS [Social Rehabili-
tation Institute] until the penalty to be imposed was issued in the first district
court, on the former for the purchase of harmful products, and on his companion for
crimes against health in the degrees of planting, cultivation, harvesting and sale.
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FARMER ATTEMPTING HEROIN SALE ARRESTED
Mexicali LA VOZ DE I.A FRONTERA in Spanish 12 Jun 81 Sec B p 12 ~
[Text] A volume of pure heroin which, according to the estimates made by the authori-
ties, would be worth about 12 million pesos on the black market, was seized from a
resident of San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora, as he was attempting to carry out a
- purchase-sale transaction at the La Posada del Camino restaurant, located on the
Mexicali-San Felipe highway.
Yesterday, the agent of the Federal Public Ministry in this jurisdiction, Jose S.
Reta Diaz, disclosed that the farmer Ismael Armenta Vega, aged 46, a resident of
- the Nuevo Leon farming development, in the municipality of San Luis Rio Colorado,
was arrested by Federal Judicial Police agents as he was trying to sell 143 grams
of heroin.
The drugs were seized, as was a 20 caliber shotgun which he was carrying in a 1978
green Ford pickup truck with California license plates IK62747, in which he was
riding to the La Posada del Camino restaurant to make the transaction.
Reta Diaz said that, after a series of investigations conducted by the Federal
Judicial Police under orders from Comdr Pablo Garcia Martinez, they established
surveillance outside the aforementioned restaurant.
On 9 June Armenta Vega arrived there in the described vehicle. Upon being intercept-
ed by the police, he appeared to be extremely nervous. When searched, he was found
to have an envelope attached to his left leg inside his trousers with adhesive tape.
The official from the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic said that, when
the heroin was analy,~ed in the laboratories, it was calculated that about 2 kilograms
of opium gum had been used to prepare the 143 grams of the drug. In other words,
the drug was of excellent quality, and could have been cut several tlmes by the
drug traffickers, so as to accrue profits of up to half a million dollars in the
United States, the equivalent of 12 million pesos.
He noted that the individual in custody claimed to have received the drug from
someone in Culiacan, Sinaloa, 2 months ago, with precise instructions on carrying
out the purchase-sale transaction.
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He had kept the drug hidden on his faxm during the interval between the time that
it had been delivered to him and the occasion when he had made the attempt to sell
it.
Reta Diaz announced that Armenta Vega would be turned over to the first district
judge in this capital, on charges of a crime against health.
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~ MEXICO
EIGHT OPIUM GUM TRAFFICKERS CAPTURED
Culiacan EL SOL DE SINALOA in Spanish 13 Jun 81 p 6
[Text] The Federal Judicial Police scored another success upon arresting eight persons
presumed to have been engaged in selling drugs, from whom they seized a total of 1
kilogram and 993 grams of opium gum, a drug that they were attempting to sell for
processing and distribution either outside or within the country, or in the United
States.
The information supplied by the coordinator of Zone 06 for the permanent campaign
against drug trafficking, Hector Aviles Castillo, indicates that forces under orders
from the Federal Judicial Police second commander, Manuel Espindola Martinez, heeding
an anonymous call, conducted the investigation which culminated in the results cited
at the beginning.
In the report made by the agents, they claim that, at No 2190 Ninth Street in the
Libertad development, Zenon Amarillas Macias, Frigida Teran de Amarillas, Magdalena
- Lar~s Arana and Manuel Alvarez Gaxiola were arrested as they were making a commercial
deal involving 490 grams of the aforementioned drug.
Upon being questioned, they said that the opium gum was owned by Gerardo Carrillo
Arredondo, who resides at No 2294 Eighth and 20 de Noviembre Streets, in the same
Libertad development. The probe was taken there, and later the police succeeded in
arresting the latter individual as well as Jose Tomas Duarte Rodrigu~z.
The latter, in turn, gave informati~n leading to the capture of Maclovia Lopez
Cardenas, who resides at 2523 Fraternidad Street, in the E1 Palmito industrial
development, from whom 1 kilogram and 258 grams of opium gum were seized.
- Another clue, provided by those under arrest led the Federal Judicial Police investi-
gators to the capture of Isidro Delgado, in Piaxtla de Arriba, in the municipality
of San Ignacio, from whom 245 grams of opium gum were seized.
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- MEXICO
ACCUMULATION OF DRUGS INCINERATED BY AUTHORITIES
Mexicali LA VOZ DE LA FRONTERA in Spanish 9 Jun 81 Sec A p 11
_ [Text] Mexico City, 8 Jun --Today, the Secretariat of Health and Assistance burned
over 50 million pesos worth of drugs and psychotropic substances, which were intended
to be brought into the Federal District. In addition, the officials confiscated
medicines from various drug stores the expiration date of which had elapsed, and
others which were not authorized for sale.
Dr Adan Punaro Rondanini, chief of the Narcotics and Drug Addiction Department of the
General Directorate of Food, Beverage and Medicine Control, said that the incinera-
_ tion took place at kilometer 57 of the Mexico-Queretaro highway, near San Miguel de
los Jagueyes, in the State of Mexico.
He reported that this destruction was in keeping with the provisions of Article 434
of the Health Code, which calls for the incineration and seizure of drugs and psycho
tropic substances when they could be harmful to health,.if handled by individuals
who are engaged in the illegal sale thereof.
A total of 227 packages and 245 boxes containing the following substances were des-
troyed: 1,771 kilograms of marihuana, 118 k.ilograms of preparations made of opium,
24 kilograms of hashish, 3,381 items of synthetic opiates; and 48 items of opium
alkaloid byproducts and pharmaceutical preparations.
He said that a large volume of inedicine produced from phenmentrazine, amphetamines
and their salts, phenobarbital, secobarbital, codeine salts, pentazocine and its
byproducts, and bitartrate, dehydrocodeinone and other pills regarded as narcotics,
were also inciner3ted.
Dr Panuro later remarked that 116,748 items of psychotropic byproducts, such as
preparations made of inetacualone, meclocualone, phenobarbital and other substances
were destroyed.
Also present during the burning was Comdr Guillermo Brandestein, representative of
the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic, as well as Pilar Rojas Ro~as,
of the Public Ministry, who prepared the pertinent records.
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~ BRIEFS
ACCOMPLICE'S RELEASE APPEALED--The agent of the Federal Public Ministry, Xavier
Elizondo, filed an appeal against the order for release issued by the federal judge
of the second district court, Carlos Gilberto Canto Lopez, on behalf of Mrs. Audelia
Sanchez de Wilsar, on the grounds that he did not find sufficient evidence against
her to continue t~he action Eor a crime against health. Audelia Sanchez de Wilsar is
the wife of Gabino Flilsar, an individual arrested by the Federal Judicial Police
when he had in his possession half a kilogram of the drug methadone, which he was
attempting to sell among addicts, and possibly to export t~ the United States. It
was said that the federal prosecutor made tY~e appeal last Thursday, consideriag that
there was suf�icient evidence to warrant issuing the order for official imprisonment
of Audelia Sanchez. [Text] [Piedras Negras EL DIARIO DE PIEDRAS NEGRAS in Spanish
30 May 81 Sec B p 1] 2909
JUDGE DISQUALIFIES HIMSELF--After deciding on the legal~status of Laurencio Castillo
Aguilar and Gonzalo Chavez Estebez, the third district judge, Ricardo Rodriguez
Villarreal,declared himself disqualified to continue hearing case 103/981, because
he was of the opinion that the aforementioned persons committed criminal acts in the
jurisdiction of the first district judge, located in Tampico, Tamaulipas. Yester~ay,
Castillo Aguilar and Chavez Estebez were declared officially imprisoned. The former
was accused of being presumably guilty of a crime against health in the degrees of
possession and transportation of opium gum and possession of marihuana, as well as
violat{on of the federal firearms and explosive.s law. Chavez Estebez, for his part,
is accused of committing a crime against health in the degrees of possession and
transportation of opium gu:�~, and possession of marihuana. These two individuals
were captured a week ago by State Judicial Police forces from Ciudad Victoria, when
they had in their possession over a kilogram of opium gum and a moderate amount of
= marihuana. On these grounds, the head of the Judicial Police, Lt Col Matias Rodriguez,
ordered them remanded to the federal authorities in Nuevo Laredo. [Text] [Nuevo Laredo
I:L 1)IARIO DE NUEVO LAREDO in Spanish 6 Jun 81 Sec C p 8] 2909
I:X-I'ULICI;MCN SENTENC~D--Yesterday, two �ormer uniformed policemen from the port of
Matamoros, and their accomplice, were sentenced by the second district ~udge, when
- ~hey were proven guilty o� committing a crime against health. Gumercindo Alvarez
Barrientos and Santos Garcia Ramirez received an 8-,year prison sentence and a fine
of 20,000 pesos, while Guadalupe Padilla de la Garza was given a prison sentence of
1 year and 8 months. The three aforementioned persons were arrested on 15 May of
_ last year, after it was learned that Alvarez Barrientos and Garcia Ramirez had been
trafficking in marihuana. The two men were arrested, and confessed their guilt,
stating that the marihuana that they had been "marketing" was part of a shipment
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which they had found in an abandoned 1974 Dodge car. They stated tt�at, on 13 May
of the same year, at a certain location in the port of Matamoros, they discovered
the car, in which there were eight bags containing marihuana. [Text] [Nuevo Laredo
_ EL DYARIO DE NUEVO LAREDO in Spanish 6 Jun 81 Sec C p 8J 2909
TRAFFICKERS SENTENCED--Yesterday, in case 271/980, the th~rd district judge, Ricardo
- Rodriguez Villarreal, sentenced Felix Salinas Cruz and Ruben Castro Venegas, for
being found gutlty of a crime against health in the degree of marihuana possession
and trafficking. Both received a sentence of l years in prison and a fine of 10,000
pesos, or 2 more months of incarceration. Finally, Rodriguez Villarreal handed down
sentences for Matias Hernandez Perez, Apolonia Garza Rios, Armando Perez Rivera and
Julio Cesar Lastra del Ange1. They were all found guilty of a crime against health,
and will have to serve a 7 year prison sentence and pay a fine of 10,000 pesos or,
in the default thereof, spend 2 more months in prison. This ring of drug traffickers
was captured in Ciudad Reynosa, Tamaulip as by Federal Judicial Police agents who -
had received reports that they were trafficking in cocaine and marihuana, and that
the head of the gang was Matias Hernandez Perez. [Excerpts] [Nuevo Laredo EL,DIARIO
DE NUEVO LAREDO in Spanish 2 Jun 81 Sec B p 3] 2909
OPIUM GUM TRAFFICKER ARRESTED--Investigations conducted by Federal Judicial Police
forces made it possible to capture Salvador Rivera Rivera, who came to Culiacan in
an attempt to sell 1,800 grams of opium gum which he had obtained by planting, culti-
vating and harvesting poppies in the municipality of Badiraguato. In the statements
which he made to the investigators, Rivera Rivera said that he was caught in the
vicinity of the Tierra Blanca market, as he was seeking a purchaser with whom he
might make a deal with the drugs. He claimed to be a native and resident of E1
Pueblito, in the township of San Jose del Llano, municipality of Radiraguato,
where he had hidden the opium gum in a metal receptacle of the type used to hold
powdered milk in the yard of his house. Also discovered was a jar containing poppy
seed weighing approximately 1 kilogram and 60 grams, which was seized by the Federal
Judicial Police to be submitted as e~~idence to the first district judge, to whom the
subject in custody will be remanded so that the pertinent penal action may be taken
against him. The second commander of the policy entity, Manuel Espindola Martinez,
remarked that the arrest took place when Rivera Rivera was strolling around the
aforementioned area and, upon noticing the presence of the Federal Judicial Police
agents, began to show a certain amount of nervousness and acted suspiciously;
whereupon the investigators proceeded to arrest him for questioning. [Text] [Culiacan
EL SOL DE SINALOA in Spanish 15 Jun 81 p 2] 2909 ,
ANTIDRUG ACTION CLAIMED LAGGING--The activity of the Federal Judicial Police is nil,
insofar as combating the crimes covered in their ~urisdiction is concerned, while
every day addicts are admitted to the municipal jail, which proves that the drug
traffic is at its height. The commander of the Federal Judicial Police and his
agents have seldom inflicted even "slight" blows on the drug traffic, and only upon
unknown individuals, because the othera are not bothered. However, the fact that
no drug traffickers have been arrested for several months does no~ mean that they
are not operating, because the constant arrests of addicts proves the contrary.
During the past few days, many persons have been arrested for having joints of
_ marihuana in their possession. For example, early yesterday morning Bladimiro Jono
Perez, aged 23 and a resident of the town of Tampico, Tamaulipas, was arrested, ancl
a container of marihuana which he had concealed in his clothing was discovered in
his possession. The addict Maximinc Quezada was also arrest?d yestprday, and each
day the same thing happens, with the number of arrested addicts now at a scandalous
rate. [TextJ [H. Matamoros EL BRAVO in Spanish 11 Jun 81 Sec A p 15] 2909
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TRAFFICKERS BLAMED FOR MURDERS--Culiacan, Sinaloa, 15 Jun --The sons of Dr Fernando
Loredo Gil, director of the Dermatological Center, and of the former president of

~ the Banking Center in this town were foun~d shot to death and burned in a car,
apparently by the drug trafficking underworld of this state. The bodies of the
three youths who had been brutally killed were found in the settlement of Agua
Zarca in this municipality. in a 1980 model car. Joaquin Loredo Zazueto snd hia
. brother, as well as Salvador Sandoval Lopez, are the youths who were murdered. The
first two were sons of Loredo Gil, and the third was the son of the former president
of this town's Banking Cen*_er. It was learned from the preliminary investigation
that the youths, aged 27, 24 and 23, respectively, were first abducted and taken to
the aforementioned settlement, where they were shot, and then the car was torched.
[Text] [Nuevo Laredo EL MANANA in Spanish 16 Jun 81 Sec A p 5] 2909
PLANE FOUND WITH MARIHUANA--Mexico City, 5 June--After 3 days of intensive searching
through the entire mountain area, the dog "Fritz" and a grocp of special Federal
- Judicial Police agents discovered in the most out-of-the-way location an Aeroco~nander
plane containing over half a ton of marihuana of excellent quality. The head of the
Federal Judicial Police, Gen Raul Mendiolea, remarked: "The job was quite difficult,
and ended on a clandestine airstrip located in Villa Hidalgo, Sonora, where a group
of drug traffickers had their centex of operations. The price of the drugs which
were seized totaled tens of thousands of peaos." The police commander explained
that the occupants of the aircraft, apparently Americans, fled upon discovering the
- presence of the police, but that, "with the cooperation of Fritz, the criminals will
be caught at any moment." [Text] [Mexicali LA VOZ DE LA FRONTERA in Spanish 6 Jun
- 81 Sec B p 12] 2909
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AFGHANISTAN
BRIEFS
OPIUM SEIZED--Kabul, June 15 (Bakhtar)--About 844.5 kg of opium was seized by the
in-charge of the campaign against smuggling department yesterday at the Paghman
road junction fr~m lorry no 218. The driver and the cleaner were also captured.
The 111 bags of opium hidden in a special way were smuggled from Kabul to Kandahar.
Ali IQian, son of Mahmod, and Pair Mohammad, son of Abdul Majed, are under investi-
gation. The opium worth more than Afs. 2.5 million was handed over to the Kabul
Customs House~ ~Text) (Kabul KABUL NEW TIMES in English 15 Jun 81 p 1~
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IRAN
BRIEFS
OPIUM HAUL--Tehran, 27 June (AFP)--Iranian police seized a staggering 3.2 tons
of opium in one single haul after it had been introduced into the country by
truck from Afghanistan, PARS News Agency reported today. The highly precious
illegal cargo was discovered hidden underneath bricks when nosy policemen
- stopped the truck for inspection in the central Iranian province of Yazd.
Police told A~P that two Iranian citizens aboard (?the) truck who were promptly
arres ted were found to be members of an international drug traffic network.
[Text] [GF271355 Paris AFP in English 1348 GMT 27 Jun 81 GF;
FASA DRUG HAUL--Fasa revolution guards have arrested three persons for selling
3 kg of opium. They have also seized 160 grams of heroin from a number of
- people. They have been arrested. [GF201858 Shiraz Domestic Service in Persian
1430 GMT 20 Jun 81 GF] ~
DARAB DRUG HAUL--Darab revolution guards have seized 2 kg of opium and ~rrested
one person. [Shiraz Domestic Ser~ice in Persian 1430 GMT 20 Jun gl GF]
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DENMARK
JUSTICE MIIVISTER PLANS TO INCREASE NARCOTICS POLICE
Copenhagen INFORMATION in Danish 27 May 81 p 5
[Text] In 1983 nnd in 1.984, the police force will be increased by 100
- persons each ye,ar, and the resources of the police wi~l be increased and
improved.
= These are some of the~elements of a plan by Minister of J~xstice Ole Espersen
for increased ei~forts a$ainst crime and especially nar~otics crimes.
The plan was outlined in a report to the Folketin~ referred to by th~
Minister of Justice at a meeting with the press at the prime minister's
office last Monday.
The background to the.plan is a growing number of narcot~.cs problems as well
as a declining rat~ of detection of criminal acts.
Before it will be possible to increase the police force in 1983 and 1g84,
54 policemen will have to be transferred from other departments to the
narcotics police. There~will be a strengthenir~g of the narcotiCs police in
Copenhagen and in the major psovincial towns, and in each individual,police
district there.will be a police officer devotin~ himself specially to
narcotic.~ problems.
To iiicrc:ase the patrols, 150 additional patrol'cars will be added to the
existing car fleet of 1,300 cars, and better radio equipment will be
purchased.
In the opinion o~ the ministea, in several correctional facilities the
number of ~ommitted offenders is far too l~.r~e compared to the~number of
employees. He, therefo~e, wants to cu't this number by 50 percent through
- structural change~. Furthermore,~ at three to four correctional faci~lities,~
special wards will be set up for dru~ addicts. F~ctra safety measures will
be introduced to prevent drugs from being smuggled into the prisons.
Also within the area of penology, the minister wants additional-staff.
The offenders committed must have better possibiiities of being treated
by physicians, psychiatrists, etc., and increased p+ossibilities of ~education,
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c;i,c., rnu;ci; ba crer~te~d within i:he pri~on~. Furthermore, the possibilities
- of slow withdrawal from drugs by means of inethadone must be increased
within the prisons.
The possibilities of treating drug addicts within the muni.cipalities and
counties must be improved. Finally, through increased support to the,,Crime
Prevention Board, the efforts to combat drug abuse~in schools and youth
clubs will be intensified.
It is the finance committee of the Folketing whi~h will decide whethen funds
may be granted t~ finance the minister's plan, which will cost him 30 million
kroner and 35 million kroner, respectively,, during each.of the first Z years.
Only one par~ of the plan will involve a direct amendanent of an act and
will, therefore, have to be dealt with during a session of the Folket,ing, viz.
the proposal to incorporate a provision governing th9 handling of stolen goods
in the criminal code which will, make it illegal,to make money on drug offences.
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FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
POLICE OFFICIAL VIEWS CHANGES IN DRUG SCENE
Bonn DIE WELT in German 26 May 81 p 22
[Article by J. Neander: "Setback for Drug Investigators: The Stuff Comes By Way
of Stettin"]
[Text] Drug investigators throughout the world are unsure of themselves. Just as
their battle against international drug trafficking had again become more promising,
their powerful enemy adapted to conditions. "As long as there is a demand there
will be someone in the world to sat~isfy it," complains Erich Strass, managing
director of criminal investigation and chief of drug control in the Federal Criminal
Police Bureau. The very latest: Pakistani heroin reaching us by sea through
Polish ports such as Gdingen, Swinemuende or Stettin.
A year ago the situation seemed clear enough. Long dominant trafficking routes
from Southeast Asia via the Netherlands were replaced by an oversupply of heroin
of the highest concentration (between 30 and 65 percent) originating in Pakistan,
Iran, Afghanistan and Lebanon, but tr.ansformed and smuggled via Turkey into central
Europe and the Unit~ed States largely through an extensive, highly organized Kurdish
- organization.
The Kurds also partially succeeded in taking control of wholesale trade in the
recipient countries. For example, trafficking in Frankfurt was t~ound in a stringent
' ilierarchy: At the top Kurds, under th2m Turks, then the so-called "Bimbos" (Black
. Africans), ar.d last the chain of small German dealers dependent upon themselves.
~ This hierarchy is coming to an end. The military takeover in Turkey, strict
controls alc~ng the so-called Balkan route ~and the introduction on 1 October, 1981
of compulsory visas for Turks in the FRG, France, Italy and the Benelux countries
are having an effect. Tur.key, which in any case already had its own illegal opium
cultivation under strlct control, is becoming less and less important as a"labora-
- tory" for the reFining of raw opium or morphine base int~~ heroin and as a"shipping
agency" to the West.
Of course opium is seeking new corridors for itself. The area under cultivation
is steadily increasing. In Iran it even doubled despite all Khomeyni's threats.
After two bad harvests there was a record harvest this year in the golden triangle
of Southeast Asia (converts to about 70 to 80 tons of heroin). And in addition to
. this surplus it is not even possible to eliminate the legal opium production for the
world pharmaceutical markets: India is sitting on hundreds of thousands of tons.
Experts fear that these quantities too will someday, somehow, reach the illegal
drug scene.
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L~~rge-scale producers in western Pakistan are to a large extent now refining the
opium themselves, as far as has been determined, and are attempting to bring the
heroin into centr.al Europe either indirectly through Greece (whose citizens are
not subject to compulsory visas), or by sea on board Polish ships via Karachi
(illegal of course). Recently 51 kilos of heroin was secured in Gdingen.
The effect on the German drug scene has been difficult to determine so far. "The
situation is unclear, but we have reason to believe that it is highly threatening.
At least there is absolutely no reason to give something like an all-clear signal,"
says Erich Strass.
Heroin is presently relatively uncommon in this country, but it is by no means a
scarce commodity. The concentration of the stuff on the street has fallen to 20
to 30 percent. That is probably the real reason for the as such encouraging fact
that the number of drug deaths in the FRG fell from 623 in 1979 to 494 in 1980 and
probably will hardly exceed 300 this year.
_ Retail prices have nominally remained stable, although in reality they have risen
- sharply because of the falling concentration. In addition, significant differences
have developecl from land to land. One gram of heroin now costs DM 10(? to 150 in
IIerlin, and DM 250 to 425 in Bavaria.
The number of initially registered "users of hard drugs" rose again in 1980: from
12,372 in 1979 to 16,776. But it had been 19,176 in 1978. "So far we have no
explanation for the kink in 1979," admits Strass. And still another phenomenon
contradicts a11 of the usual theories: The portion of youths among the ~unkies
is decreasing markedly. But this is compensated by a resurge in the use of hashish.
In certain cities there are now schools that demand the utmost attention of drug
combatants. A total of 72 tons of cannabis products were secured in 1980 in
western Europe, the highest annual amount ever.
Cocaine is also attaining threatening dimensions. In the first 4 months of 1981
the same quantity of this fashionable drug, which comes to Germany from Colombia,
Bolivia and Peru, was secured as during all of 1980.
With narcotic drugs a great deal occurs in waves, says Erich Strass. At times it
m~;y be very difficult to uncover the reasons for this, wave pattern. The police
alone are probably overtaxed. Have the bestseller, about Christiane F., and the
book and film about the "Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo" ["Children from Zoo Railroad
Stati.on"] had any effect?
Stras:; hesit~tes a long moment: "An effect sure, but possibly mainly as a deterrent
Cor those wtto in any case are not sub,ject to the danger of consuming drugs. With
- tl~ose who are in danger it eould even have the opposite effect. I would prefer to
reserve my opinion on that."
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FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
PROFESSOR SURVEYS DRUG SCENE, DRAWS CONCLUSIONS
Frankfurt/Main FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE in Ger.man 4 Jun 81 p 8
[Text] How much money does a heroin addict spend in order to be able to drug
himselF? Does "shooting" three times always make one addicted? Are more drugs
consumed in Bundeswehr barrar_ks than elsewhere? Prof Arthur Kreuzer, Giessen
criminologist, has investigated questions of this kind on behalf of the Federal
Criminal Police Bureau. He made surveys in Frankfurt, Giessen, Darmstadt, Berlin
and Munich. Among those he interviewed were 57 male and 20 female "junkies," in
other words users of hard drugs, who were willing to give him a glance into the
drug subculture.
According to Kreuzer's findings there are presently with certainty 60,000 to
80,000 people dependent on drugs in the FRG. Women make up about 20 percent of
those addicts registered by the police, and the number of female "junkies" is
growing. Most of thes e addicts are 21 to 25 years old. One-half to two-thirds
of addicts are known to police,
_ On Wednesday Kreuzer reported in Wiesbaden that the "entrance age" into the drug
- scene has apparently not decreased in the recent past. Instead the so-called age
tendency for drug dependents seems to be rising. There seem to be grounds for
the supposition that hashish is the typical pace setter on the road tfl heroin
addiction. The palette of addictive substances which may lead to hard drugs is
wide; alcohol and nicotine probably play no insignificant role there.
The thesis that a person will inevitably become addicted to heroin after three
"shots" was described as false and dangerous by the criminologist. It may lead
users to the mistaken notion that they must stay on the needle because they are
addicted. According to Kreuzer, whether or not a person becomes addicted depends
upon many factors, as well as his education, his future prospects, and his mental
state. It is no wonder when a"dead-beat type without any,,.saving social fabric"
switches from hashish to heroin.

�4~
~ Kreuzer concludes from what he was told that "bailing out" comes mainly during
the period of apprenticeship. As a rule young people are enticed into consuming
drugs in the presence oF groups in which the taking of narcotics is no longer an
unusual adventure; group pressure causes many to waver. Only in a few cases are
school friends or fellow workers the determinant mediators in the use of narcotics.
And Professor Kreuzer has established something else: "Joblessness appears to
be not the cause of a so-called drug career, but the effect."
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Kreuzer's experience is that estimates for the heroin need of an addict and the
money that he spends for it are generally too high. He has calculated that the
average daily dose for an addict is about 100 milligrams of heroin of "street
quality" (20 percent concentration). The costs run about DM 50 per day. Addicts
obtain this money with the help of "procurement criminality," girls chiefly through
prostitution. Among those "junkies" asked, 19 percent of the men and 40 percent
of the women verified that they had taken part in burglaries in order to get money.
The "self-supplier" of drugs, who, as at the start of the 1970's, obtained narcotics
by breaking into drug stores, by a doctor's prescription, or had raw opium brought
to him from the Orient hardly exists any more. Heroin addicts buy on the black
market; they stay in the same town, in their familiar "scene" in which they are at
home. In this regard criminologist Kreuzer explains: "The scene is a stable and
rel.iable source. It can survive individual arrests and confiscations because of
its decentralized and elastic form of organization. The scene also offers th`
opportunity to obtain the necessary money for the addiction and other needs. In
most detention institutions drgus are consumed in small quantities only. Reports
of an internal drug subculture in the institutians are often exaggerated."
Kreuzer has looked around in barracks too. There he found out: In the case of
Bundeswehr soldiers drug problems play a smaller role than for civilians of the
same age. Anyone who drinks a lot of alcohol in the Bundeswehr probably did so
earlier too, says the criminologist. Drugs in the Bundeswehr seem instead to be
a problem introduced from outside, and not ~aused by the situation. All things
considered, however, drug addiction is probably more significant in the Bundeswehr
than the officially registered cases would indicate, according to Kreuzer.
Kreuzer advises the police to concentrate their investigation more on the dealers
than on the users. In large cities drug investigators have given "junkies" caught
- for the first time the choice of either submitting to treatment or facing criminal
prosecution. Of course it is not always possible to substitute therapy for punish-
ment, says the professor. Where the will for treatment is lacking probably very
little can be done. But on the other hand "~unkies" could more easily be won over
to therapy through judicial pressure.
_ Kreuzer. warns against giving addicts "~ubstitute substances" in order to break them
of the heroin habit. A person who has slipped into the drug subculture, argues
the criminologist, is sa involved in it that substitute drugs would hardly cause
him to abandon his subculture world. In addition, both the Scandinavian and
I3ritish "drug w~ves" of the 1960's died down without any "substitute drug program."
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FRANCE
ttASHISIi, ARMS SL'IZED AT ST. TROPEZ, PARIS
I'aris LL' FIGARO in French 11 May 81 p 12
['1'e,ct] Tlie St. 'fropez police hacl a lucky break. By
scarching t}irough a wallet found in the street, they
_ made it possible to dismantle a whole network of drug
traffickers, including two young people from good fam-
ilies. I'ifty kilos of }iashish, as well as weapons,
}iave already been seized. And the investigation is
just beginning.
The affair really begins in the lost and found office of the St. Tropez police sta-
tion last Monday. In the wallet, which was picked up on a sidewalk by a passerby
who hastens to bring it to them, the police discover 4,000 francs in small bills.
Along with these four bundles of 100-franc bills, there are identity papers in the
name of Marc Fleury, 23, residing at Neuilly-sur-Seine, and also a small bag con-
taining 1 gram of cocaine.
When they learn that the owner of the wallet lives on a 13-meter sloop moored at
Port Grimaud, the St. Tropez police decide to visit the boat. They are received on
board by t}~e sister of the party concerned, lliane Fleury, 20. A simple, brief
search yields the discovery of five tablets containing 1 kilo of hashish each. The
next thi~ig is to fiiid Marc Fleury.
lie is questioned the next day and then immediately interrogated by the Toulon SRPJ
[expansion unknown] inspectors and those of the Central Narcotics Office, who from
the beginning have suspected an important traffic. They are not mistaken.
'f}ie son aiicl daughter of a good family--their parents have a very handsome mansion in
Neuilly--Marc and Diane Fleury confess to making very frequent trips between the -
Cote d'Azur and North Africa. Trips made in order to bring back to France huge
c~uantities of }iasliis}i. Their most recent cargo, which came to Morocco from Jidda,
invol~ved Ei00 kilos, a mission that brought in 100,000 francs to the two smugglers.
5ince Wednesday the investigators have been developing all the information received
in tlie course of.' the interrogation. Several witnesses are interrogated in Cannes,
111 the Massif Ce,:*.ral and in Paris in the circle frequented by the Fleurys. With no
results. It is not until Friday that the affair's true dimensions become evident.
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'fhc Nctwark Cachc
Again it is chance that will lead the police to the apartment in ~Ionceau Park in
Paris, a true network cache. While petting the dog of one of the friends of the two
young people, whom they have just been visiting, one of the policemen is intrigued by
a telephone number. It is the number of the apartment in Paris, where they discover
- not only 50 kilos of hashish, but also weapons and documents, concerning which the
police demonstrate great discretion, all the more so because they could make possible
a vast haul in the following few days.
Meanwhile, Marc Fleury and his sister have been imprisoned, four other persons are
in custody, including a man who may be the head of the network, and several new wit-
nesses are scheduled to be examined today. "We are in the presence of a very large
traffic, and we have to expect new developments in the next few days," was the com-
ment on Saturday of one of the inspectors of the Central Narcotics Office, who have
joined with thosc of the Central Crime Repression Office.
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SWEDEN
NATIONAL, COUNTY POLICE DISPUTE STOCKHOIM DRUG CASES JURISDICTION
Stockholm DAGENS NYHETER in Swedish 10 Jun 81 p 28
~Article by Leif Dahlin~
~Text~ The dispute that has developed between Huddinge county
police and the National Police Administration (RPS) about how
to fight drugs in Stockholm county only seems to get worse.
RPS accuses county police of engaging in work that sorts under
- its jurisdiction in the police district of Stockholm. County
police claim that certain people within RPS are working against
them and states that the National Narcotics Squad (about 70 men)
is not taking care of its responsibilities.
"It is sad that things have come to this, particularly at a time when drug abuse
and related crimes are worse than ever in Stockholm county," said the head of
county police, Commissioner Gosta CZaesson.
There have been differences of opinion between Huddinge police and RPS for some
time about how to fight narcotics within the county. The straw that broke the
_ camel's back as far as Huddinge county police i~ concerned (20 men) was the
following:
Sodertalje police wanted a director for its na.rcotics unit. County police
supported it, but RPS did not honor the petition.
RPS answered in part: "Consenting to this would actually mean the creation of
a special narcotics squad in Stockholm county. RPS thinks that would be wrong
based on considerations concerning the police district's future organization
which was reeently discussed in Parliament and which will be discussed further
in a police report..."
In its answer RPS also said: "The special narcotics squad in Stockholm county
has for some time now been increasingly involved in search and investigatory
duties that fall under national jurisdiction. Not infrequently, its acti~i.ty
extends to the Stockholm police district. As far as we can judge, this change
in the squad's responsibilities has resulted in reduced efforts to combat drug-
related crimes beyond the street level in Stockholm county. The present situation
in Sodertalje must be viewed as a consequence of this..."
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At a stormy meeting of Huddinge police last Tuesday, department head ULF Waldau
explained the National Police's point of view and told DAGENS NYHETER:
"To my knowledge, national narcotics agents and Huddinge police work well together
and botti units have had very good results. The fact that Huddinge police haVe
had several big search and investigation cases has necessitated a great dea.l of
personnel so that we have had to turn down requests for help from neighboring
districts, forcing them to turn to other districts."
But Commissioner Claesson interpreted RPS's answer as rather scathing criticism
of Huddinge police and said:
"The squad has long been aware that certain people within RPS have viewed the
squad's activity unkindly and disapproved of the results we have had.
"When 8PS says that because of our expanded search work we have been negligent
in combatting drug-related crimes within the county, tttat simply means that,
according to RPS, we have failed to take care of our responaibilities.
"Anyone who has the slightest knowledge about drug criminality knowa that it does
not follow district boundaries and ia not limited to a particular district, not
even a single county. As far as the Stockholm region is concerned, it is
impossible to draw any boundaries.
"According to the agreement," Claesson continued, "RPS is responsible for combat-
ting drugs within the Stockholm police district and the county squad is responsi-
ble for the rest of the county. Following an investigation and in order to
prevent any 'competitive situations,' the chiefs of the National Police, the
Stockholm police and the county police decided that the chief of the National
Narcotics Squad, a representative from the Central Search Squads and the chief
of tiie County Narcotics Squad together should lead the narcotics operations in
the entire resion. This agreement was made early in 1979, but it has not yet
been applied." ~
Cla esson also pointed out that Huddinge police did not come under any criticism
at "Thursday's meeting," which was held at the Central Search Squads' headquarters
nor has it received any criticism from the Stockholm police district. ~
Far from it, there has been much openneas with respect to its activity.
- We cannot say the same for the National Police. It should also be known that
Stockholm police are dissatisfied with the manner in which the National Narcotics
Squad is handling its duties. The district has plans to establish its own
narcotiCS squad.
- Claesson revealed that National Police were tipped off a few years ago about the
so-called Turkish boat in Uddevalla (more than 100 kilograms of cannabis was
picked up from the harbor basin floor).
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- Claesson:
"The chief of the National Narcotics Squad wondered if our squa.d could intensify
_ its internal searches since some foreign smugglers, supposedly owning the cannabis
on board this boat, were suspected of being in Solentuna, Some of our searchers
interrupted their schooling to take on this job. National Police could not
provide any personnel in that instance because it had to send men to Uddevalla.
We were finally told we could not get any reinforcements. National Police could
not tie up its personnel for the long and intensive search period tha.t was thought
to be necessary. So, the National Police, which are supposed to coordinate large-
scale drug investigations na.tionwide, could or would not engage in what was
- suspected to be the largest drug case ever dealt with in Sweden."
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SWEDEN
HELICOPTER TRACKS DOWN SPEEDBOAT SMUGGLING DRUGS
Stockholm SVENSKA DAGBLADET in Swediah 23 May 81 p 8
CArticle by Gunnar vcn Sydow~
jText~ A speedboat operated by a drug smuggler was too
fast for police boats, but a helicopter was prepared to
- chase it back and forth among the skerries outside
- Goteborg for a couple of hours. When the smuggler landed
on a small island in order to hide, a puliceman jumped
from the helicopter and overpo~aered him.
Thus ended several days' chase of a drug courier who had picked up 100 grams of
amphetamine in Amsterdam. It has a atreet value of approximately 100,000 kronor.
The 40-year old courier from Uddevalla has bsen under police surveillance for
some time. On Thursday 14 May he went to Amsterdam, the European drug trade
capitol. Two policemen from Uddevalla Narcotics Squad followed him. One of them
was Aseistant Detective Arne Burriam. He reports:
"We tried to ahadow him the beat we could down there. We had help from ttxe Dutch
police, but still were not able to observe him transacting any business.
"On Sunday 17 Ma.y he took the ferry to Goteborg. We went along and kept him
under surveirlance. We thought he would take the narcotics through customs
himself.
"But when we approached Vinga lighthouse, we gaw a speedboat coming toward the
ferry. We immediately notified Goteborg police, who readied a helicopter.
- When the speedboat got up to the ferry, the courier threw a bag into the water~
The boat picked it up and disappeared--the helicopter in purauit.
"After a couple of houra the driver of the speedboat was apprehended on a small
island in the akerries. The courier aboard the ferry was apprehended without
drama. Both are now in jail. They have made some confessions.
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Another man has been apprehended and may go to jail. Police expect to ma.ke
further arrests.
When this organization is taken care of, police hope to have broken the amph~ta-
mine trade in Uddevalla for a while.
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, UNITED KINGDOM
BRIEFS
HEROIN SEIZED--Heroin valued on the black market at 480,000 pounds was seized
last night by Scotland Yard Drug Squad officers in raids on two addresses in
Forest Gate and King's Cross. Three men were later helping police inquiries.
- [Text] [London THE DAILY TELEGRAPH in English 29 May 81 p 32]
CSO: 5320/24 END
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