JPRS ID: 9707 WORLDWIDE REPORT NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS

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1 Nlay 1981
= Worldw'l'de Report
NARCOTICS AND QANGEROUS DRUGS
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JPR5 L/9707
1 May 1981
- WORLDWIDE REPORT
iVARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
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(FOUO 19/81)
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- CONTENTS
- y ASIA
AUSTRALIA
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- Briefs
Griffith Citizens' Action 1
NONG KOIVG
Briefs
Extradited Man Charged 2
Thai Man Arrested 2
Dehydrated Opium Find 2
INDONESIA
Drug Abuse Information Exchanged With Australian Official
(HARIAN UMIJM AB, 17 Feb 81) 3
Briefs
Morphine Arrests 4
NEW ZEALAND
Police Mount Large Drug Raids in Several Cities
(Various sources, various dates) 5
Hutt Valley Operation
~ T?umber Arrested Rises
Initial Court Appearances
- Siibsequent Court Hearings
' Raids in Auckland
NPlson Houses Raided
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- Bail Jumper Extradited rrom California Goes on Trial
(THE EVENING POST, 17 Mar 81)
Traffic in LSD Seen Major Narcotics Problem in Future
- (T}lF FVENITIG POST, 16 Mar 81)
_ Briefs
- Auckland Drug Statistics
Drug Importer Jailed
Cannabis Tmporter Convicted
THAILAND
BriPfs
- Heroin Smugglers Arrested
CANADA
~ 'Itao Cocaine Rings Dismantled in Montreal
(Denis Masse; LA PRESSE, 21 Mar 81)
Proposed Amendments to Marihuana Laws Criticized
- (Wendy Wa:burton; THE CITIZEN, 26 Mar 81)
- Drug Charges Laid After RCMP Raid
(Bob Mar].eau; THE CITiZEN, 20 Mar 81)
'[tao Plead Guilty to Trafficking in Liqiiid Hashish
(Bob Marleau; THE CITIZEN, 6 Mar 81)
EASTER'N F,UROPF.
C7.ECHOSLOVAKIA
- Briefs
- Drug Addiction Seminar
LATIN AMFRICA
BOLIVIA
Reaction to u.S. TV Program Linking (lffici3ls With Drug Trade
(}iOY, 30, 31 Mar 81)
Paulovich Commen+.ary
. Death Penalty Evoked, by Carlos Serrate Reich
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, Garcia Meza Releases Details on Antidrug Activities
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_i DNCSP Repoi-ts o, `.rmed Confrontation in Drug Buet
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~ Drug Traffickers Arrested
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~ Largest Cocaine Factory Discovered to Date in Santa Cruz
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! Peasant Region-SupForts State Antidrug Campaign
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i Antidrttg Education
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_I BRAZIL
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; Israeli Cir.izen With Cocaine Arrested in Leme Hotel
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' Cocaine Trafficker, Driver Arrested in Iraja
-i (0 GLOBO, 17 Mar 81)
Briefs
! Cocaine Route Ghange
; Drug Traffickers Sentenced
Fc;rmer Bank Guard Arrested
; Pdew Drug Of f ic ial Ins tal led
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. Cocaine en Noute to France Confiscated
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~ Briefs
Cocaine From Peru
MEXICO
PJF Interpol Cor,unander Assigned to Nuevo Laredo
(EL *1ANANA, 6 Mar 81)
Extortion of Drug Traffickers by Authorities Charged
(F.T. UTARIO DR NUEVO LAREDO, 21 Mar 81)
. Ofticial Iriplicated in Escape of Drug Trafficker
(E'L rtANANA, 14 *tar 81) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Pc,pp:; Flant:ations in Linares T.ocated, Destroyed
(i-:i MANANA, 11, 12 Mar 81)
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'rrafficker Escapes
Another. Plantation Found
Members of Marihuana Smuggling Ring Captiired
(RT. MANANA, 12 Mar 81)
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Tr.atficking Rings Hold Gun Battle on Runway
(E5 SOL DE SIT?ALOA, 27 Mar 81)
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Heroin Traf.ficker Given 15-Year Jail Sentence
(Ei. nIARIO DF PIEDRAS NEGRAS, 20 Mar 81) .
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Groups of .�tarihuana, Heroin Traffickers Captured
(F1. IMPARC7AL, 26 Mar 81)
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Captured Marihuana Traffickers Make Statements
(F.L RRAVO, 18 Mar 81)
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Brief.s
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Marihuana, Weapons Seized
Cocaine From Peru Seized
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rlore Poppy Plantations Found
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Poppy Plantations Destroyed
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Traffickers Caught
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Physician Arrested 14ith Neroin
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Airplane With Marihuana Seized
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Car-Stealing Traffickers Caught
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"FNEZ1'FLA
Fditorial Voices Concern Over Drug Trafficking Increase
(Editori.al; FL DIARIO DE CARACAS, 25 Feb 81) 54
- PTJ Captures 80 Kilos of Cocaine
(E?, DIAR-10 DE CARACAS, 25 F'eb 81) 56
8riefs
Mandrax Trafficker Arrested 58
NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
AFGHANISTAN
Narcotics Police Officers Complete Training in Finland
(U,'S7 StTOMI, 7 Feb 81) 59
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Briefs
, DrugG Seized 60
- Op;um Seized 60
FARS Narcotics Haul 60
SUB-SAHARkN AFRICA
CAMEROON
Arresrs Renorted for Growing 'Acres' of Hemp
(CAPtERO0N TRIBUNE, 11 Mar 81) 61
WEST EUROPE
AC?STRIA
Briefs
Heroin Discoverv
Hashis}i niscovery
DENMARK
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R.Ptiring Narcotics Police Chief Com,:ents on Outl4olc
(11nders ~.ti'iig; RERLINGSKE TIDENDR, 10 Mar 81) 68
De*ails of T3angkok-Copenhagen Heroin Route Revealed
(Eichner-Larsen; IiERLINGSKE TIDFNDE, 11 Mar 81) 70
'Iti.vo Asians Sentenced in Large Heroin-Smuggling Case
(1b F.ichner-Larsen; BERLINGSKE TIDENDE, 17 Mar 81) 72 -
13riefs
Must Against Compulsory Treatment 73 -
Huoe Hashish Cache Found 73 -
Seutences in Ileroin-Smuggling Case 73
FET)rRAL itFF111RT,IC 'IF GFRMANY
T3r ieEs
Hashish Seized 74
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Expanding Hard rrug Market Developments Described
(Jpan-Marie Pontaut; LE POINT, 23 Mar 81) 75
SWBUEti
Govertiment, Backed by Public, Readies Forced-Treatment Law
(Tom Hoyem; RER.LINGSKE TIDENDE, 17 Mar 81) 78
TUFKEY
_ Major Operation Breaks Heroin Ring
(Ertian Akyildiz, Selahattin Gokhan; MILLIYET, 30 Mar 81) . 80
Briefs
Heroin Seized in Izmir 83
i1NITED KINGJOM
- Heroin Smuggler Sentenced to Ten Years; Deportation Recommended 84
(THE BATLI' TRI,EGRAPH, 3 Apr 81)
_ Dr.ugs, Weapons Seized in Drugs Raids ~6
(T. A. Sandrock; THE DAILY T.ELEGRAPH, 13 Mar 81)
Briefs 8~
Drugs Se~.zed
Drug Ring Smashed 87
Hero ir. Se izure 87
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AUSTRALIA
BRIEFS
- GRIFFITH CITIZENS' ACTION--Sydney.--The people of Griffith want to set up a$1
million Citizens' Crime Investigation Commission to investigate the disappearance _
of ant-drug campaigner, Donald MacKay n2arly four years ago. [as published] The _
commission would se-rve as a memorial to Mr MacKay as well as help rid the New
- South Wales Rive?-ina town of its image of drugs and corruption. The town will =
close down on 7 April to show Australia that it is a united and happy place and
not the crime ridden drug capiLal some have claimed it to be. The f;ght to clear
the town's name is being led by the Griffith Chamber of Commerce but the money
- for the citizens' crime comanisaion would come from an Australia-wide appeal by
the Apex movement. The NSW Attorney General, Mr Walker, said he did not see what
the setting up of a citizens' crime investigation committee cruld do. "There -
has already been a Royal Commission (the Woodward Commission) and the police are _
still investigating. Citizens are entitled to do what they like within the law, _
but i� the Royal Commission didn't get to the bottom of it and the police are
still investigating, I do not see what a citizens' committee can do", he said.
Mr Walker denied reports that a new Federal Royal Commission would soon be
announced to investigate the Mackay disappearance, the death of Mr Frank Nugan,
one of the partners in ttie faiied Nugan Hand Bank, and the link between the deaths
of Douglas and Isobel Wilson and the 'Mr Asia' drug ring. [By Simon Clarke]
[Excerpts] [Melbourne THE AGE in English 23 Mar 81 p 31 CSO: 5300
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HONG KONG `
BRIEFS
_ EXTRAUITED MAN CHARGF.D--A 40-year-old man who had been extradited from Australia
appeared at Western Court yesterday charged with conspiracy to traffic about
3 and 1/2 kilos of raw opium worth about $1 miliion to Hongkong from India and
with trafticking in dangero:.is drugs. No plea was taken from Wong "L'au-leung,
" alias Peter Wong, and Mr E.S. Yanne ad,journed the case to Ma.rch 26 pPnding the
- Attorney-General's voluntary bill of indictment for Wong to be tried with another
defendant in the High Court on April 7. It is alleged that on di.vers dates
between July 1 and 27 last year, Wong conspired with Rusi Mistry, an Indian,
Jane Clark, alias Mary Homewood, a Canadian, (han Yung-hoi and other nnknown
people to traffic 3,568.7 grams of raw opium to Hongkong from Bombay. It is
= also alleged that on July 25 Wong trafficked in the raw opium, Detective Ckief
Inspector John Thomson of the Narcotics Bureau told the court that following the
arrest of some co-defendants, Wong fled to Australxa by giving $8,000 to a sea.-
marc. He was extradited to Hongkong on Wednesday night. [Excerpt] [Hong Kong
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST in Engl.ish 13 Ma.r 81 p 151
j THAI MAN ARRESTED--Detectives from the Hongkong office of Interpol have arrested
i a Thai man wanted in Holland for allegedly 3ealing in 3rugs. Chief Inspector
-I Michael Quinn and Chief Inspector Hugh Ollerenshaw made the arrest earlier this
week at a Kowloon hotel. A warrant for the taan's arrest was issued in Hongkong
earlier this month and the Dutch authorities have confirmed that they wish to
exkradite him. Hc will appear in Western Court tomorrow. [Text] [Hong Kong
SUUTH CIItNA MORNING POST in English 20 Mar 81 p 141
DEHYDRATED OPIUM 1'IND--A 41-year-ald local resident was arrested yesterday morning
_ by Customs officers at the Macau Ferry Termi.nal for possessing half a kilogram of
dehydrated opium. The drug has a retail value of $60,000. [Text] [Homg Kong _
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST in English 19 Ma.r 81 p 131
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INDCivESIA
DRUG ABUSE INFORMr1TI0N EXCHANGED WITH AUSTRALI&N OFFTCIAL
_ Jakarta IiARIAN UMUM AB in Indonesian 17 FeU 81 p 6 _
[Article: "Indonesia's Police Chief Receives Australian Director of Narocotics"]
[Excerpts] Police Gen nr Awaloedin, chief of the Republic of Indonesia Police9 re-
cently received Mr �eni L. Bates, director of narcotics of Austral3.a, at the police
headquarters in Kebayoran Baru. Mr Bates had participated in a conference on narco-
; tics held in Manila and sponsored by Interpol and therea�ter in conferences of ASEAN '
drug experts meeting in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and in Vienna, Austria. Material ob-
tained at these conferences formed the agenda for the exchange of information on
drug problems with police officials in Indonesia.
The pol.ice chief said the drug problem must be taken in hand early and continuously
_ before it is too 12te as lias been the case ir_ a number of countries. Indonesia's
_ experience shows that driig abuse has not been a serir,us problem in the past 10 years
although it is an increasing one at present. However, the f igures for drug abuse _
have not yet reached the danp,er point. The police chief said drug abuse probably is
rising because many cases arei unreportEd and there ls a sfio�rtage of facilities in the
police force and in other agencies for treatment and rehabilitation.
In3onesian police use lectures in schools, information in the mass media and on rad.io
and television, an3 f ilms on drug victims as a means of prevention.
Indonesian judges who have observed the criminal laboratory in Mabak and whc viewed
films on drLg victims are aware that those who perpetrate the crimes of smuggling
- and distributing drugs should receive sentences that fit the crime.
Mr Beni L. Bates said that figures on drug abuse in Australia continue to rise and
this is of great concern to the Australian government, Every attempt has tieen made
to control the abuse, smuggling, trade, and distribution of drugs.
Australia has 300 police and special off.icials who are experts on the types and
qualities of drugs.
Both sides admitted that drug crimes were most complex because they are supported
by well run criminal organizati.ons. Mr Bates said international cooperation is
needed to control drug crimes including smuggling, trade, distribution, and use.
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= INDONESIA
BRIEFS
MORPHINE ARRESTS--Police Lt Col A. Moeis, commandant of Police Resort 403/Bengkalis,
reported to the chief of Police Region IV/Riau that the local police recently broke
up the drug smuggling network between Malaysia and Riau and arrested those invo'Lved.
The drugs smuggled consisted of a very small amount of morphi.ne crystals. Lt
Col Moeis said a Chinese, LPY, was arrested in early December 1980 when he was found
to be holding 3.4 grams of morphine crystals. On 9 January another indigenous per-
son, Sk bin K, was arrested for carrying 3.75 grams of morphine crystals. Then on
25 January two other indigenous persons, the lirothers S bin A and L bin A, were
arrested for holding 11.5 grans of morphine crystals. Results of the interrogation
of those involved showed they admitted to having obtained the morphine from the same
' source, a Chinese whom they knew as Ban Kui in Sungai Aor, Ma.laysia, Moeis said.
[Excerpt] [Jakarta MERDEKA in Indonesian 17 Feb 81 pp 1, 121 6$04
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NEW ZEALAND
- POLICE PtOi,n3T LARGE JRUG RAIDS I`1 SEVERAL CIT'IES
- Hutt Valley Operation
Wellington THE EVEr1ING POST in English 18 Mar 81 p 1
- /Text/ Twenty-four people were arrested and a large quantity of drugs seized in a ~
large operation mounted in the Hutt Valley last night.
, Morc thaa 72 detectlvea ope r a t i o n 5 a d b e e n
- Irt^-.a t~e Hatt Valley,
planned toc more than a
- Poritga edi Wellingtm
ear. I
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of t6e people were a!- �
were lnvolved in ratds
os 30 homq prlnctpally
ready known tu us," he
_ in the HarM Valky aad
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said.
~Wi~0� ~id he couldA't
Iscladin 1n Wel�
g wme
put a figure on the quenti-
lington ad Porlraa.
,
ty of drug iized at this
- Further investigations were
gta8e but said it included
continuing this morning
gi8oificant amounts of
cannabis
cannabis ex-
and more arrests are like-
ty
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tract, LSD, haas6 and 6ash
oil.
- Planned
`Dented'
- The man in charge of the po-
_ lice operation, Detective
�But what I can say is that
~e operation will put a
oifi
t d
t i
th
s~
Inspector Colin Wilson,
6ead of Lower Hutt CIB,
can
en
e
n

drbg tratilcking scene in
H
V
th
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ll
said the full-scale security
e
utt
a
ey.
As police investigations cod-
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tinned throughout the
morning the Lower Hutt
Police Station wes cor-
doned otf, with the public
beiAg reYUSed admission
unless oo urgent business.
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Coagtable Barry Gill, nor-
mally in charge of the loat
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ProPerty office, was main-
tainfng a vigi] at the sta-
tion door vetting entrants.
The 24 people artested will
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appear in the Lower Hutt
District Conrt leter in the
=
week charged wlth a vari-
ety of drug-related of-
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feflces.
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Nunber Arrested Rises
Wellington THE EVEDTING POST in English 20 Mar 81 p 6
/Text/ The number arrested in Wednesday's drug raids throughout Wellington, the
Hutt Valley and Porirua has now risen to 29.
A further man was arrested this morning by Lower Hutt police and he will appear in
the Lawer Hutt District Court on Saturday on three drug-related charges.
Initial Court Appearances
Auckland THE NEW 2EALAND HERALD in English 20 Mar 81 p 4
/Text/
Press Assn Wellington Twenty�five people appear-
ed ia the Lower Hutt Dia-
trict Court yesterday charg=.
ed with a varietp of drug;,
offences. ~
Charges ranged trom poa-
session, selling and sipply of
cannabia, to supplyiug clasa '
A and B drugs and aesault,
with intent to injure. Two.-
men were charged witb:
theft of engines and one
with receiving.
Most of thoae charged
entered no pleas and were
remanded on bail to appe:r
again at future dates.
Ont' maa who pkaded
guilty to possession of can-
nabis ptart was c6rivicted'
and tined $150.
One men, Claytou Lee
Davies, aged 24, unemployed
car groomer, was remanded
in custody until March 26.
on a total of 14 chargea. The
charges includcd sEllmg can-
r.abis, cffering to scll can-
nabis plaat, suppiyuig a
class B controlled drug, of-
feri:ig tn supply a claw A
controlled dru& aad permit-
ting a Naenae pranises to
be used for the purpoae of
an offence ' against the Mis-
use of DruBs Act. ,
Subsequent Court Hearings
Wellington TI-IE EVEIVING POST in English 26 Mar 81 p 28
/Text/ Sixteen of 29 people arrested following pulice drug raids in the Hutt Valley
and Wellington areas on March 18 appeared at intervals at thp Lower Hutt District
Court again today. A number were granted
further remands and some
entered not guilty pleas.
Murray Joseph Ngahere,
29, car trimmer, pleaded
guilty to two charges of sell-
ing cannabis and one of
possession. Two charges of
offering to sell cannabis
were withdrawn by leave.
He was convicted by Judg�
M F Hobbs and remanded
until April 9 for a probation
report and sentence.
Sergeant Robert Buli told
the cdurt how Ngahere sold
cannabis plant worth ;620
on February 19 to a special
duties constable and sold
him 14 cannabis bullets ac
$10 each on !4larch 12. His
bail was renewed. ,
Plea
Anthonv .James Rouson,
25, unemployed, pleaded
guilty to receiving a colour
TV set between November 1
and March 18 and possession ;
of cannabis on March 18. He
was remanded until March
26 for a probation report.
His bail was renewed.
Kenneth Ncel Billing, 26.
carpenter, pleaded not guilty
to seUing cannabis plant on
September 13, 1980. He was
remanded untii April 28 and
his bail was renewed.
Claytan Leigh Davies. 24,
unemployed, was remanded
in custody until.Apri12 on 14
drug�related charges. A dep-
osition date was set for April .
27.
Terry Davies, 27, house-
wife, pleaded not guiltg to
two charges of knowingly
permitting her premises to
be used for an oftence
against the Riisuse of Drugs
Act. She was remanded until
April 14 and her bail was re-
newed.
Richard John Schuitema,
21, carpenter's labourer,
pleaded guilty to four drug-
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related charges. He was con�
v;cted and remanded until
April 9 for a proba[iun of-
ficer's report and sentence
Bail wa; cuntinued.
,1Qr Bull said Sc:huitema
sold one deal bag uE cannabis
to a undercover policemar,
for ;25 r,n March 12 at a
Wainuiomala address. On
March 13 he sold four deal
bags at o25 each to the po�
liceman. Schuitema was the
lessee oi the premises where
the drugs were sold.
ward Harry Pearce, 25,
commercial traveller,
pleaded nol guilty to one
charge of selLng cannabis.
Fle was remanded until April
15 and his bail was renewed.
Lindsay William Dunn,
28, farmhand, pleaded aot
guilty co selling cannabis
plant. He was remanded un;
til April 16 and his bail was
continued.
Andrew John Cook, 27,
manager, was remanded in
custody until April 2 on 11
charges which included as-
sault with intent to injure at
Porirua on March 18.
David Alistair Mayo, 25,
landscape garriener, was re-
manded on baii of ;1000 and
two like sureties and a daily
repor'cing clause to Aprii 27
for the taking of depositions
on three indictable charges.
He entered a not guilty plea
to tN�o summary charges.
Antony Wallis Wilson, 21,
student, pleaded guilty to
smuking cannabis plant on
Kovember 12 at Wellington.
He was convicted and or-
dered to come 'up for sen-
cence if catled upon.
Raids in Auckland
Wellington THE EVE`"TNG POST in English 26 Mar 81 p 28
_ /Text / Al CKLAND, Today (PA). - Forty
Auckland detectives made dawo raids
- on seseral city homes !oday, following
' a t��o�month undercover drng fn-
vestigation,
Two haurs after the raids began at
- 5.45am polfce had srresced nine men
and wumen and seized small amounts
of 6eruin, cocnine, LSD and caenebis.
- Twilve search w'arrants were ex-
ecuted by Bam in the "street level" ~
operation, and further arrests were ex-
pected as the inquiry continned today.
T6e nine arrested were to appear
before t6e Diatrict Court oa charRes '
including dealing in ond pcesewion of
narcotics.
Today's oQeration follows similar
police drug swoops in Wellington and
Hamilton.
Nelson Houses Raided
Well:.ngton THE EVE~iNG POST in English 26 Mar 81 p 28
/Text/ LARGE qnaniities of'cannabis end tective Sergeant Jim Dwight, about 80 '
a nanber of Keapous were seized in a police ofticers - including several masFive drugs raid on \elson honses from the capital - were involved in
this morning. the operation. Several arrests were
Led by H'ellington druq squad De� made.
The Prcss Asaocialfon ~
states that 22 people wrre due to appear in the
Uistrirt Court charged
w�ith drug o[[ences fol-
luwing the raids in
tielsoa.
Pclice were now
searching for eight more
people. The raids un-
cnvered 160 hashish
biocks, about 15,000 can-
nabis seeds, 1.8 kilo-
Rramroes of cannabis and
druQ-takfnR implementr.
CJO: ) 3"'0
Policealso seized f(re-
arms including a pistol
and a. shotguo, and a coa!'
sack of offensive weap-
ons from a tielson gang
headquarters.
A city hotel was also
raided and several pea
ple, including the man-
ager, have beeo cherged.
i'he police arrived at
the gang headquarters at
4.30am. T6eir party in-
cluded members of the
arened offenders spuad
"for very gaod reasoas."
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INw zEarArrn
BAIL JUMPER EXTRADITED FROM CALIFORMA GOES
ON TRIAL
Wellington THE EVEti'ING POST in English 17 Mar 81 p 20
= /T,,Yt /
CHRI'STCHURCH, ;
. . . . ~ .
Cheinist ~
Marcls 16 (PA). - Drag's
witY a street value of -
Evidence would be given '
moire than ~40,000 were
by a Riccarton Road chemist
t~t late oo the afternooo of
' foand in the Rkcarto~
H(arch 3, 1977, he made the
- flat of a former jeons
unusul sale of,thcee ciozea�
s6op ptoptletor during te
pill bottles to a tall Eucope-:
early mocning raid by de-
an male in his eerly thirties,
tectives on March 29,
which fitted Miles descrip-
19?7, Mr Jastice flardle
tion.
Boys and a jory were told
Crosa-examined by Mr M
ln the Hig6 Coert at-;
J Glue Eor Miles, Detectiaef
Sergeant A E Aarris agreed
C6ristchnrch todey. ;
,
that thie was the gecond time
- � Kevin .John Miles, 38, has
he had Biven evideace in the
~ pleaded aot gnilty W two
trial agamst Mfles. T6e first
~ charges of the possession of
I.SD and canna is for aupp-
was [n June, 1977. In reply
to questions by Mr Glue, De-
_ ly:
tective Harris agreed that
- 0pening the praeecution .
Mr G K Panckhurst said that
Mi1es had jumPpd bail while
aWaiting 6is second trial. He
- Miles was c6arged under We
brought Miles beck from
old Narcotics Act which Was
California aEter ertradition
in force at the time of the
alleged offences. Thei
pr~.~~d ~ workin
g
- charges iavolved com--:
mercial quantities of 1SD.
as o catering manager at
Fisherman's Wharf, San.
- and hashish, the resin ea-;
Fransisco, he anderstood,:
tracted from the cennabis
twt When 6e azrved in tbe
plant, found at Miles' Ilat nn
United States Miles' catering
Riccacton; dnriag a drug
Was being done for him by ~
squad raid about 8am on�
the County Jail, said Detee-
March 29, 1977.
I ti�e Han'is� i
TLe hashiah weighed 399
grams and was worth ap-
proximately =4000 on tbe�
_ market at that time. Ttiere
. were just over 9000 1SD
tablets and they were valued'
- at about =4 each - a total
value of more than i38,03. ~
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rEw zEaLarm
TRAFFIC IN LSD SEEN MAJOE NARCOTICS PROBLEM IN FUTURE
Wellington THE EVEDTING POST in English 16 Mar 81 p 15
/Text7 Traffic in the illicit drug LSD is likely to be the major problem facing New
Zealand drug enforcement agencies in the future warns the deputy-director of the Na-
tional Drug Intelligence Bureau, Detective Inspector Gerry Cunneen.
T Alttiough no accuiate fig-,
ures are Tept to allow esti-,
mates of 6ow big the drug
problem ia in New Zealandi
or on how-many addicts they
are in the comtry, trends in
drug ttaificking can be seen
throogb figures kept on the
amount and type of drugs
seized, said Mr Cunneea
And judging from tyese
figures, hir Cunneea told a
luuchtime meeting af the
Lower Autt Rotary, the hal-
lucinogenic drug LSD was
going to be the number ooe.
problem. a
iSD tablets were very
popular in the eariy seven-,
ties, v!th 1476 tablets seized
by law eatorcemeflt agen-�
cies in 1973. The popularity..
of the drug then declined but:
with the supply of other'.
drtrgs like heroin declinin6,
its popularity has again ia-
creased, with over 200Q,
taDlets seized last yeaz. �
' Nr Cunneea said police '
stfll regarded heroin ag al
high Qriority in ovefall 6cug .
detection hut heroin-relatad
offeaces 6ad� dropped dra-.
mattcally ia the pasY few
Yeam ' , . �
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- In 1080 ooly'1 percenf of :
all drug offences were hero-
in related compared with 6
and T pecceat in 1979 and
1978 respectively. ~
He attributed the drop to
incresaed police activity on
the drug weae, higher penal- ,
ties tor dtug offences, the .
publicity. surroundiag the ,
"Mr Asia" drng trial and the
low South-east Asian ontput
of opium dne to two suc- .
cessive drou ts. ~
But Mr unneen waraed
New Zealand could face an
upsurge in heroin imports later in the year. '
"Reports irom 6outh-east .
Asia indicate this year's crop
of opium could be a bumper
cxop; ' 6e said: "IE will hit
the NeW Zealand streets
about Jnly W Octoter this
year so we may see an ia-
crease in heroin offeaces as
a resulk".
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NEW ZEALAD?D
BRIEFS
AUCKLNND DRUG STATISTICS--The Auckland police couunander, Assistant Cottcnissioner
E.J. Trappit, said that heroin offences in Auckland dropped from 155 in 1979 to
o nly 27 in 1980, ut," he said, "the first f ew months of this year had revealed
that the hard drugs were back on the scene again. Canna.bis and stimiilant drug
crimes increased on the previous year. Cannabis offences were up from 1753 to
2156 in Auckland." [Text] [Auckland THE NEW ZEA,LAND HERALD in Engl.ish 16 Mar 81
p 1)
DRUG IMPORTER JAILED--A sentence of six years in jail was yesterday imposed on a
- Christchurch man who admitted importing LSD, cocaine and cannabis leaf into New
Zealand. Sentencing Murray James Ritchie, aged 25, in the High Court at Auckland,
tlr. Justice Moller said the crimes cormnitted by Ritchie were extremely serious and
vicious by any standards. Ritchie had earlier pleaded guilty to the charges which
included the importation of 11,:140 LSD tablets, with a street value of $77,980;
importing 31.2 grams of cocaine, with a street va?ue of $10,000 and importing
19.2 grams of cannabis. The drugs were seized during a search of Ritchie's
baggage at Auckland airport: which revealed LSD hidden inside a rolling pin and
cocaine concealed in a wooden cutting board. Ritchie was given concurrent sen-
tences of six years for the LSD offence, four years for the cocaine and 18 months
f or the cannabis. [Excerpts] [Auckland THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD in English
Z1Mar81p41
- CANNABIS IMPORTFR CONVI CT.ED--Cannabis resin worth $100,000 on the black ma.rket
was found hidden in the suitcase of a man at Auckland International Airport, the
- Auckland llistrict Court heard yesterday. Before Judge Patri.ck B rowne was James
Maitland Lang, aged 32, an unemployed ship's engineer, of Stratford, England, who
pleaded guilty to a charge of importing the drug. He was convicted and remanded
in custody to the 1-Ligh Court until April 7 for sentence. Sergeant Richard David-
- s on said the defendant arrived at the airport from Singapore. In a routi.ne
ctistoms check 1880 grams of cannabis resin was found hidden in his suitcasea 7.'he
defendant said he had bought it in Pakistan, that it belonged to him and he had
- worked alone to bring it into New Zealand. [Texg] CAuckland THE NEW ZEALAND '
IIG1tt1l,D in English 28 Ma.r 81 p 41 _
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THAILAND
BRIEFS
FIEROIN SMUGGLERS ARRESTED--A Heng Kong Chinese about to leave on a flight
_ to Ch ina was arrested at Don Muang Airport yesterday after customs officials
= found more than three kilogrammes of heroin in his possession. He was
identified as Tsing Chu Ming, who was about to board a civil aviation
administration of China flight to Canton when he w2s caught. He was appre-
_ hencied in the departure lounge and a body search revealed two packs of heroin
concealed beneath speciaZly adapted women's underwear. 'Three more packages
of the clrug tound in a secret compartment of his luggage brought the total
her.oin seizure to 3.2 kilogramnes. Customs officials said Tsing arrived
in Thailand on April 8 and had stayed at the Trocadero Hotel on Suriwong Road
where the heroin was delivered to him. They said Tsing had admitted being a
= drug trafficker and intended passing the heroin on to another couriez at
Canton airport from where it was apparently going to be smugglad to Hong Keng.
- [Text] [BK120856 Bangkok POST in English 12 Apr 81 p 31
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CANADA
TWO COCAINE RINGS DISMANTLED IN MONTREAL
Montreal LA PRESSE in Fr ench 21 Mar 81 p A 4
[Article by Denis Masse: "1.5 Million in Coc.aine Seized--Ztao Trafficker Networks
Rendc>red Harmless"] -
~ -
[Text] The Royal Genda rmerie of Canada, in close coogeration with the Peruvian
_ police, has just put zn end to the clandestine activitiPs of two rings of Montreal
narcotics traffickers wh o were getting their supplies in Peru and who were selling
- this precious drug "in ttiQ street," in Montreal. -
. In the two cases tnat drew the attention of the Gendarmerie for the past 4 months,
- agents netted 3.5 kilograms of pure cocaine, wort:i some $1.5 million on the market.
_ Altogether, seven Canadi ans were apprehended, including a 60-year-old woman, and -
other arrests are imminen t in the Montreal region, according to Sgt Gilles Veil-
leux, of the RCMP.
- The two rings that had b een broken up however were operating separately and ther.e
were no connections between them.
Iit the Efrst case, the sleiiths swooped down on their area of operations in Peru
where they caught H.enri P omerleau, 33, of Bordeaux Street, Montreal, and Mrs Jean-
nette Bisson, 60, of. Lanaudiere Street. According ro the police, she served as
courier to deliver the co caine to Canada; her age generally put her above all sus-
= picior.. at various customs stations where she turned up.
= These two persons, already known to the Canadian poli^e because of their participa- -
t:ion in similar affairs, will be sentenced and jailed in Peru, according to the
Gendarmerie sPokesman. _
- In tlie Lirsr_ case, the po lice were able to confiscate 1.5 kilogram of cocaine. Other -
Lr.rzfEickers belonging to the same gang are to be arrested over the next several
. days. _
= In tlte second case, the Gendarmerie, in Lima, capital of Peru, apprehended two young
persons wlio were serving as couriers. They are Daniel Clerk, 22, of Sainte-Therese-
de-Blainvill.e, and Andre Ricard, 28, of Saint-Denis Street, Montreal, on whom the
_ police found 1 kilogram of pure cocaine. The Peruvian supplier was also nabbed.
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= The gang leaders in Canada were exposed and also arrested. One of them is a physi-
cal education instructor by the name of Xvan Vranjes, 39, of Clark Gtreet, Montreal;
- anothcr orie is a lady teacher by the name of Nicole Langlois, 37, of Pointe-aux-
Trembl.es; and Martine Gendron, 26, a secretary residing at Sainte-Therese-de-Blain-
ville.
J Nicole Langlois was found to be in possession of half a kilogram of pure cocaine;
she will have to answer to charges of possession of drugs for the purpose of angag-
- ing in drug traffic.
The investigation was directed by Inspector Gi11es Favreau, of the narcotics squad
= of the RCMP, and Sgt Gilles Veilleux, of the more specialized cocaine traffic squad.
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CANADA
PROFOSED AMENDMENTS TO MARIHUANA LAWS CRITICIZED
Ottawa THE CITIZEN in English 26 Mar 81 pp 1, 21
[Article by Wendy Warburton]
[Text]
_ Proposed amendmenis to'Ctianada's mari-'
juana laws were criticized on several fronts
- today with potice epokesmeh saying tho
changes. go. too far -and an Ottawa laveyel;
arguing they wilt result in tongher penalties
- tban ezist now. .
,
Tho amendmcats,-which inciude a provi;
sion making S200 the maximum peaalty for
simple possession of marijuana, are to ba
- incroduved in the Common& before siimmer;
official sources say: ' .
The bill would include a b6aaket pardon
= for some 200,000. persons convided of,. sim-t
ple poseessian ot .#nerijuart~ or hasbi"sk. i*
the Ia9t l0 yeais:,:Moreover," tReir `eames'
woutd be rcmoved� from the, Canadiaa-Po->
- lice Iirforntation Cenue. computers: and
their fingexprints and photagraphs would be,
ddtroyed.
Smoitiog marijuana no longet wou{d be :
an indictable offence and police ao loeger
would be able to fingerprint and photo-'
graph offenders.
flowevcr, the t"Vxt do noi meaa pou~s,
sion will be decriminalized, as many ~j~'
hsve urged: ' . ~ ~ : .
The proposed changes arE "a typical Lib-
. eral sop to all the interest groups on the
iuue and wip satisfy none of us," said
- Andy Rapoch, president of the Nationnt.
Organization Foe Kepeal of Marijuana
Laws (dYORML).
- RaFoc6 and Ottawa defencz lawyer Ro-
bert Wakefield said the $200 mazimum
fine is a tougher penalty th.an now roceivcd,
by offenders, most of whom leave court
_ with an absoluLe discharge and no-fine..
'Vhile 'tlte court oould ' stN' issue dis-'
c6arges, critics fear t6at judges will be
more likely to impose fines, aince the Com-
mons witl hava stated after 10 years of de-
bata that this is how the offence should be �
treated. . . .
Tanner EIWn, a spokesman for the feder-
al solicitor-general's. deFartmeat, said the
law will be a boon to the few people con-
victed for possessian who still ga ta jail.
Under the Narcotic Convol Act, a per-
son can get a maumum seven-year sen-
tence if possession is treated as an indict-
abie offence--something that hasn't hap-
pCllCd lb yC$[3.
The more usual procedure is surnmary
offence, which carries a mc .imum penalty
of a S2,000 fwe and one year in prisan.
Most of the 27,400 individuals convicted
of passe3sion in 1979 were given absolute
or oonditional discharges, or light fines.
Proposed changes in the marijrZna iaws will not
mean any savings in court costs, hoaever, since offend-
ers will still bave to appear in wurt, says Tanner Eltan,
a spokesman for the federal salicitor-general's depart-
ment.
"Tha government is not trying to save maney," he
said.
Andy Rapoch, president of the National Organization
for Repeal of Matijuana Laws (NORML), said that,
while pardoning thase convicted of possession in the� last
10,years is "very nice," -it will nat show up in U.S. re-
cords, and thousands of convicted Canadians will still be
turned away at the border.
Ottawa deputy police chief Tom Flanagan said the
timing of the change "doesn't seem to be right in view
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of the evidencc of the harmful effecu we're learning
i about. More study is rcquired."
_ He said thc changes might eacourage young people
that smoking marijuana "is the thing to do."
- Officials said the bill has been through cabinet ana
has pravincial support.
However, introacction was delayed until after the
- March 19 Ontario provincial election bocause of fears
the Cunservative govemment might turn it iato a cam-
paign issue.
Ttic only strong opposition to reduction of penalties
has oome from the Ontario government, officials said.
Cannabis drugs-marijuana and hashish-were placed
in the Narcotic Control Aet in 1923, although they;
aren't narcotics. '
More than 85 per cent of convictions under the act
are for possession of cannabis. . .
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CANADA
DRUG CHARGES LAID AFTER RCMP RAID
_ Ottawa THE CITIZEN in English 20 Mar 81 p 53
[Article by Bob Marleau]
- [Text]
J Two local men hav,e been charged with
conspiracy to import 75 pounds nf ha-
shish after an Rt'MP raid at a Gatineau
motel netted $335,000 wdrth of the dcug.
_ An Ohio woman has also been eharged
followiirg the raid Wednesday at the
Greber Street motel. RCMP drng squad
members had followed her siTlce s$c
- arrived Tuesday at Mirabel Airport on a
- flight from L.ebanon.
- Sgt. Jacques Mathieu said a woman
_ arrived at thq airport with four suitcases
and went through customs without being
challenged. '
Police,followed the woman to the Ga-'
tineau motel, which they refnsed to
- name, but didn't make a move until two
men arrived at 9 a.m. Wednesday.
In. the .:hotel rootn, police tound 75
pounds ~ hashish hidden in false bot-
toms of ur sui3cases. ' '
Later, police raided a Gatineau pizza
restaurant, which they didn't name, and
_ seized an ounce of cocaine valued at
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Charged with importing narcotics is
Gwrgetta Mary Wehbe, 39, of Cleve-
land, Ohio: _
Charged with conspiracy to import
narcotics and possession of cocaine for
the purpose of traFficking are: Elias
Choueiri, 23, of de Provence Street,
'Y'ouraine, and Samier 7.oghbi, 25, of
Cumberland Street, Ottawa.
Polia said the iwo men, both single,
and t6e woman, marriod with one daugh-
ter, are being hetd in Hull jail until a
bail hearing Monday.
Mathieu said the drug bust was a
large one, but will only make a small
dent on the Ottawa market.
The three charged face a minimum
seven-year jail term if convicted. The
maximum sentence for importing or
conspiracy to import is life imprison-
ment. .
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CANADA
/
_ TWO PLEAD GUILTY TO TRaI'FICKING IN LIQUID HASHISH _
Ottawa THE CITIZEN in English 6 Mar 81 p 18
[Article by Bob Marleau]
[Text] lfao men who recently beat a drug importing charge pleaded guilty in
Ottawa provincial court Thursday to tra�ficking charges laid on, evidence from
the earlier trial.
_ Scott Penney, 27, of Winxipeg, pleaded guilty to trafficking three pounds of
liquid hashish, and was senter.ced to Judge Jack Nadelle to a two-year penitentiary
term.
Earl Rose, 28, of Ottawa, pleaded guilty to t.rafficking one paund of the drug.
He was sentenced to 10 months in reformatory.
The importing charges against the two men were laid in April 1980 when police in -
Winnipeg, Newfoundland and Ottawa arrested 19 people for their part in a scheme
- to import eight pounds oi liquid hashish v4lued at $200,000.
Police said the seizure of the shipment of liquid hashish was part of a sweep that
_ sllut down an operation centred in Ottawa ana Arizona which distributed drugs ,
- throughout the continent.
Among those arrested was Rose's older brother Derek, the kin gpin of the operation.
He was sentenced to seven years in jail af ter pleading guilty in Ottawa provinci.al
court ?ast sutmner.
Earl Rose an d Penney were acquitted of the importing charges in November.
Of the other 16, one, an American, sLipped bail, and the remaining 15 pleaded
- guilty to various drug charges and are now serving jail terms ranging from one
to seven years.
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA
BRIEPS
DRUG ADDICTION SEMINAR--The 12th seminar on alcohoiism and other toxic addictions
- ended in Kariovy Vary on 9 Ap.ril. The main topic at the seminar was alcoholism
in women and drug addiction in children, youth and conscriptso The number of
women-alcoholics in Czechoslovaki.a has doubled during the last 5 years. Ten years
~ ago, the ratio of inen to womeri addicted to alcohol was 20t1, whereas it currently
stands at 13:1. Women-alcoho lics need more intensive medical care than men because
tneir biological organisms sustain higher damage thYc:ugh xegular use of alcoholo
; [Prague SVOBODNE SLOVO in Czech ,0 Apr 81 p 6]
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BOLTUTA
REACTIOid TO U.S. TV PROGRAM LINKING OFFICIALS WITE? DRUG TRADE
Paulovich Commentary :
J
- La Paz HOY in Spar.ish 31 Mar 81 p 3
[ Colunr, by Paulovich: Sixty Minutes' Without Any Yankees" ] -
[Text] As the chairman of the board of clirectors of HOY said yesterday in his -
weekly commentary, last week can be called a week of national disgrace. The com- -
ments of iiiost citizens focused on the film of a television program broadcast in
- Y,he United States at the beginning of March.
Some people saw that film with the desire tc 1--arn about it, learn its true scope,
learn whic h Bolivi.ans were mentioned in the pragram and judge their guilt based on
knowledge of those people and their activities. There were also maiiy who watched
private showings of the film with a morbid desire, more or less like people who
.
go to a funeral to see the face of the dead person.
- I viewed the filrn as a journalist and left angry. I do not deny the rElative value -
oi so;iie accusations and certain evidence shown in that television program. It
would be foolish to deny it. As a journalist, I know that drug traffic e::ists in
the country. You, as readers of the newspapers, know tha.t there is coc-aine Lraf-
Pic in the country, mainly destined for the United States.
i~mat is cl;;verly t'orc-otten in the fiLn is that drug traffi3 requires sellers and
buyers. This famous film only shows, in bits and pieces, the activity of the
sellers. UJhy did it hide the buyers on J.S. soil? A large quantity of the drug
reaches the United :3tates. ThP cocaine is not sold on the retail market by Boli-
_ vi_ans standirig next to hotdog stands or in the doors of discotheques or drugstores.
J Bolivia,i cocaine, like Peruvian and Colombian coc;aine, is sold to rich U.S. citi- ~
- ~~~ns. These are :uillion-dollar purcYiases. Does the world know tt:-, names of any
- of them? No. Is the drug sold to the U.S. Mafia? Who markets it in the United
StaLe;.: IV'o one knows. The television program 1160 Minutes" ignored this. It only
showed U.13. television viewers the activity of tre Bolivian drug traffickers arid -
- their involvement with high public officials.
C'acing that disgra: e, facing that concealment of the guilt.y Americans and facing -
r,hose half-truths (which are the worst lies) , I can on13= paraprrase Sor Juana Ines
= de la Cruz and say :
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Ignorant Yankees who accuse my country without reason,
Without seeing that you are the cause of what you are accusing,
Whv has the greater blame, although no one is right:
He who sins for payment or he who pays for sin?
Death Penalty Evoked
La Paz HOY in Spanish 30 Mar 81 p 2
~ [ Colwnn by Carlos Serrate Reich: "Accusations about Drug 'Iraffic" ]
[ Text ] We have spent a week of national disgrace.
- Under large headlines, the press has repeated the accusations of the president of
- Lhe republic that previous national governments "had conceal.ed and abetted" drug
_ traffic. This deeply wounds national dignity and honor, especially coming from
the prime magistrate.
The people ask why those responsible are not tried. Why don't the Supreme Court
of Justice and the attorney general, in the absence of Parliament, start trying
= the guilty? There must be evidence; the president's statement at the press con-
ference is sufficient.
A 13olivian air force colonel who is now a diplomat ha.s asstuned his own defense,
~ according to a DPA cable, through statements to the press in Caracas. Within the
country, the former lninister of education and culture did the same concerning the
very serious accusar ions involvirg them and other high Bolivian officials with in-
ternational co:.aine traffic. These accusations were made on U.S. television NBC
network in t;he program 1160 Minutes" presented on 1 March by journalist 14ike Wal-
lace. It is estimated that more than 100 million people in the United States
saw it.
While the prestige of Bolivia sinks throughout the world, it would seem here like
we 1.ive in Byzantiurn.
Every type of foreign publication and serious newspaper and magazine with interna-
tional circulation like NEWSWEEK, for exampl.e, cite many names of people in Boli-
vian public life but, until now, it has not occurred to any attorney general to
- prosecute.
If they are soldiers, why aren't they given leave so that they can prove their in-
nocence? If they are civilians, why aren't they summoned to defend themselvesi'
The fatherland is also embarrassed by omission.
- We are living a very dark night of lack of prestige and dishonor. In the local
- press, we were iriformed mont!is ago that Bolivian youths occupy first place in
drug consumption in Latin America. Apparently this news has not aroused anyone.
Are cae blInd? Are we crazy? The national body is sick and our future is compro-
, mised by the idiocy of drug addiction.
The foreign ministry has the responsibility to request that our interna.tional ac-
cusers--i.ncluding Arizona Senator Gus DeconGini and the L~^ug Enforcement Adminis-
tration--provide the evidence that they say they have against certain Bolivians so
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, that we cari try them here. To save the dignity of the country, it might even be
riecessau,y to appl,y the death penalty in some cases.
The General Coniptroller of the Republic m.ust present an inventory of all the build-,
_ iilgs, houses, estates, agricultural properties and transportation vehicles where
drugs and processing ut2nsils have been found; this has been published in detail
for some time. These can become urban and rural schools which are so scarce in
- Bolivia. About 30 percent of this revenue should go to the Ministry of Health for
rehabilitation clinics for the many affected youths.
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GARCIA tEZA RELEASES DETAILS ON ANTIDRUG ACTIVITIES
La Paz PRESENCIA in Spanish 31 I4ar 81 p 9

[Excerpt] The president of the republic, Gen Luis Garcia Meza, reported yesterday
that Col Luis Arce Gomez was relieved as carAnander of the Col Gualberto Vil'_arroel
Army College and that Gen Lucio Anez Riuzra was appointed to replace him.
General Garcia Meza gave a press conference at the Miraflores Headquarters with ~I
~ Col Arturo Doria Medina, member of the Council Against Drug 'Iraffice. He stated I
that the commander of the military school was replaced after Colonel Arce Gomez ~
requested leave to defend h=mself against internal and foreign accusations. '
The new cocranander of the military school had been mi'litary attache at the Bolivian
IInbassy in Brazil.
Actions Against Drug Traffic
The president of the republic also reported on actions to repress drug traffic.
He said that members of CITE [Special Forces 'Iraining Center] had an armed con-
frontation with gangs of cocaine traffickers yesterday in the Cha.pare zone, leav-
ing one drug trafficker dead and one wounded.
+ He revealed that, in this fi.ght by the armed forces against that illegal activity, -
"there will be no exceptions, whether those involved are civilians or military,
Christians or Mocrs."
- fle noted that the government learned that there were attempts to discredit the e
_ f'ight against drug traffic, calling it "only a theater (campaign) to arrest
politicians." -
He added th.at "the frontal war that the armed forces is fighting against drug
traffic has the cooperation of the U.S. specialized narcotics office called the
DEA [Drug Enforcement Administration]. It is following (the actions)." -
- He indicated that, through the Ministry of Foreign Relations, "we are requesting
- cooperation from the United Nations and the OAS to collaborate with the armed
forces to repress drug traffic." _
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He said that experts had come to the country to process the coca leai in order to
extract the alkaloids and thus keep the plant from being used to manufacture
cocaine.
Disappearance of Cocaine
The president also reported on procedures in Santa Gruz where 11 factories were
dismantled and approximately 150 kilos of cocaine confiscated.
He added that some 130 kilos of tha,t confiscated drug had disappeared from the
- Office of Control of Dangerous Substances. Therefore, the Council Against Drug
'Iraffic has undertaken a detailed investigation to clear up that crime.
- "Fat Fish"
He indicated that 12 people implicated in cocaine traffic have been arrested in
] Santa Gruz and that two wanen had been arrested in recent hours in Cochabamba.
He said that the investigations to determine "who were the leaders of the gangs
~ of drug traffickers are going well. We think that the fat fish will fall soon
with the subsequeiit danger for the members of the armed forces and their command-
ers. Therefore, we have asked for help fran the (cocaine) consuming countries."
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BOLIVIA
DNCSP REPORTS ON ARMED CONFRONTAiION IN DRUG BUST
La Paz PRESENCIA in Spanish 31 Mar 81 p 9
- [Text] Ten cocaine factories were abandoned after an armed confrontation betwEen
their managers and authorities of the DNCSP [National Office of Control of Danger-
ous Substances], according to that office. At the same time, it reported the sei-
- zure of large parcels of cocaine and chemical elements for its processing in other
. parts of the country.
In an operation carried out at dawn on Wednesday, 25 March, in Pampajasi, Loayza
Provime, La Paz Department, special investigators of the DNCSP had an armed con-
frontation with owners and helpers at the cocaine factories. There wera no deaths.
They fled and abandoned their 10 factories which were occupied by the forces of
order and burned by order of Anibal Miranda, attorney general for the penal divi-
sion. He has been assigned to that drug office by the Public Ministry.
The authorities also seized a motorbike, two radios and a Polaroid camera in that
- operation.
Trucks
- The mentioned office also reported that, at 1400 hours on 12 March, the Brazilian
Federal,Police seized five trucks loaded with 100 drtuns and 200 liters of acetone
and ether in Guayaramerin. According to the officiai explanation, the trucks were
seized because they did not have Brazilian export permits or consular visas.
Cocaine
In another operation carried out in Cochabamba at 2030 hours on Friday, 20 March,
the DNCSP seized 550 grams of cocaine. The authorities confiscated another ship-
ment of drugs 2 days later but did not specify the quantity. Several traffickers
were arrested at the time; their names will be azade public when inuestigations end.
On 24 March another operation in the same city
fully operating coc aine factory. Authorities
base and arrested several implicated.
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DRUG TRAFFICKERS ARRESTED
BOLIVIA
PY101732 Paris AFP in Spanish 1632 GMT 10 Apr 81
[Textj !.a Paz, 10 Apr (AFP)--Col David Fernandez, director of the National Board for
Control of llangerous Drags, announced here today that four of the six or seven most
- important cocaine traffickers of Bolivia have been arrested in La Paz, Cochabamba and
_ Santa Cruz. Fernandez added that these were the most important operations ever carried
out in Bolivia an d it proves the sincerity of the armed forces commitment in the
strug,ble aginst d ru;-, traffic that started on 13 February 1981.
The important drug traffickers who have been arrested are: Roberto Suarez, a
nationalized U.S. citizen of Cuban origin, according to the official report; Amado
Nallar Venegas; Ida lter Ayala; and Gerardo Mendez.
In unofficial cir cles, Suarez has always been coisidered as the most powerful drug
traffickers in Eo livia and possibly in Latin America. It is known, however, that he
was born in Aeni, n ortiiern I3olivia, although it is possible that he was provided with a
_ Cuban or U.S. passport by the mafia. Sources from the region reported that Suarez
_ contracted 15 forme r Somoza guards for his personal security and that the guards
>trictly followed his instructions.
The of fi.cial report indicates tliaC Gerardo Mendez was arrested on one of his ranches in
Santa Cruz, where tie ];ad 12U tanks, which made it possible f.or him to produce 60 kilo-
Qrams of cocaine base daily.
'Che complete list of drug traffickers arrested in Santa Cruz are: Amado Nallar Venegas;
.Justitiano Agar Me nde�r.; Gerardo Rodriguez Roman; Erlan Echeverria; Roberto Suarez;
_ Eusebio 'Peigue Dan; :Tnse rtoreno Justiniano; Eduardo Canuda Araujo; Walter Atala; Gver
Melgar }iurtado; and Fodolfo Siles Comez.
Colonel F-rnandez explained that several armed eonfrontations took place to carture tlie
- drug, traffickers and that durinp, a confrontation on the property of Nene Chavez, his
administrator was killed.
Last Friday, President Carcia Dteza sent a message to UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim
_ requesting international aid to fight drug traffic. He said that }iis regime inherited
a serious problem and that during the civilian governments of Walter Guevara and Lidia
_ Cueiler, measures were approved encouraging the illegal production of coca leaves, the
- cocaine raw material.
With this background, Che Tnterior "finistry published in EL DIARIO todly the names of
- the most importan t congressmen w}io ;,ave recommendatinns to the drug traffic directorate
- fur che marketing oC coca. The list includes Benjariin Miguel Harb of the Christian
Uemocratic Party (PDC); Uscar Zamora of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (PCML);
Ronald Monje Roca and Leonidas Sanchez of the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement (MNR);
- and Eernan L'aptist a Cumucio of the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement of the l.eft.
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BOLiVIA
LARGEST COCAINE FACTORY DISCOVERED TO DATE IN SANTA CRUZ
La Paz PRESENCIA in Spanish 12 Mar 81 p4
_ [Text] Santa Cruz, 11 Mar (PRESENCIA)--Yesterday the army announced discovery of `
*new cocaine factory installations in the northern part of Santa Cruz through an
operation started a week ago with ranger patrols combing the mountains.
, Aspokesman for the Manchego Regiment, the most powerful unit in the garrison,
'reported that it is presinned to be one of the biggest factories discovered to
date. A week ago two other factories were found near the Japanese colony Okinawa,
100 km from this city. The authorities stated that it had a production capacity
of up to bQ kg of cocaine a day.
Ranger Commander Col Moises Chiriqui said that this new operation was carried out
in the province of Santistevan, some 30 lan from the Rio Grande, and that several
people are under arrest. He affirmed that the armed forces' action will continue
.until narcotics traffic is wiped out. According to this regiment commander, it
_ i:5'calculated that up to 200 coca pressers were working in this center which nad a
"high,-'volume production, as can be seen by the equipment," he said.
The ranger raid was made early Monday morning and up to 60 wells were counted which
_ had been in production until a few days before. It is said that the factory was
abandoned when it was learned that the army had been mobilized to fight narcotics
traf f ic.
When the raid toolc place, a few people were there as caretakers. Identified to
date are the Pedraza brothers and Paco Gonzalez. The names of Che others arrested
were not revealed but it was said that according to statements, the factory was
closed down due to lack of raw material and:'"the people had been temporarily discharged.
- There is no evidence as to who the owners are.
- For their part, the DID [Department for Investigation of Customs and Tax Crimes]
said that they were certain that the two dead persons who turned up a few days ago
in a blue Toyota jeep abandoned in Palmasola are of Colombian nationality but
their identity is uncertain.
The civil police stated that they were known within narcotics traffic circles by
the nicknames Wilson and Condorito. It was announ.ced that Interpol has been
contacted and reports from Colombia are being awaited to complete the information.
- In the meantime, the investigation is continuing to discover the motives for the
double murder.
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- PEASANT REGION SUPPORTS STATF ANTIDRUG CAMPAIGN
La Paz HOY in Spanish 12 Mar 81 p 4
[Text] The peasants of the Chapare region have expressed their decided support
for the government's campaign to completely eliminate narcotics traffic and its
negative effects in this country, it was officially reported.
= The decision was announced to Secretary General of Information Fernando PaZacios
~ by peasant leaders from 25 centers in that Cochabamba region.
AC thP same time they reiterated their support for the economic measures, which
they said were positive, and would make it possible to balance the national economy
and to work on solid f oundations in pursuit of harmonious development.
They showed their approval of the governmental action undertaken to control the
marketing of coca and added that in the Chapare region the cultivation and harvesting
- of the product had b een halted, as a demonstration of support for the measure
~ adopted by the military governmenC.
- They said that both activities will be started again in a controlled way in the
coming days, due to the fact that they are the main means of subsistence for the
majority of the area's inhabitants.
- In that vein, they asked the authorities to return the taxes they contribute from
the sales of the coca to their social assistance funds to build schools, health
centers and other things which would benefit that area.
They also asked for support in the development of Chapare in the form of incentives
for production and ma rketing of their resources by opening access roads and bringing
_ in modern machinery.
Responding to the leaders' announcements, the Secretary General of Information said
- that their suggestion s will be communicated to the president of the republic and
the cabinet in order to find a satisfactory solution for themo
In regard to the campaign to wipe out narcotics traffic, he said that it is not
interded to hurt the farm worker. On the contrary, it is beneficial because it
will eliminate its negative effects on the country.
He pointed out that the goverment's objective is to work for the benefit of the
health and hearth of the country's peasants and added that the doors of the state
offices are open to h ear their requests and complaints and to solve them.
tie .oted that President Gen Luis Garcia Meza gave special attention to the peasant
support measures being taken in the country "because he is a man who loves his
people and the major ity of those people are peasants."
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BOLIVIA
BRIEFS
ANTIDRUG EDUCATI ON-- Oruro, 11 Mar (PRESENCIA)--A series of conferences on the harmful
effects of the use of drugs and hallucinogens of all kinds will begin next week,
given by experts on the subjECt. This series is directed mainly toward secondary
school students who, according to the conference sponsors, are the most affECted
- by the use of drugs. The series is sponsored by the National Confederation of
Women's Institutions (CONIF) and orRanized by the office of dangerous substances
control. The lecturers will bring sufficient appropriate teaching aids to make the
talks as successful as hoped for. Departmental Director of the Office of Dangerous
' Substances Lt Col Mario Velasco Avila said that the personnel in his department
meet weekly with officials of the Army Second Division to report to them on the work
_ they are doing to suppress narcotics traffic and to e:cchange ideas. He added
that, as a consequence of these meetings, the fight against drug traff ickers and
users is becoming more effective. He also said that during the carnival festivities
the men of his office exercised strict control over certain foreigners in the
event that they might encourage the use or sale of drugs. He stated that, fortu-
nately, not one case was reported. [Text] [La Paz PRESENCIA in Spanis'R 12 Mar 81
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BRAZIL
ISRAELI CITIZEN WITIi COCAINE ARRESTED IN LEME HOTEL
Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 10 Mar 81 p 10
- [Text] Gilbert Dabt, 25 years old, who also used the name Avi Dabi, an Israeli citizen
born in Tzinisia, was arrested yssterday afternoon in one of the apartments of Hotel
Meridien, in Leme. In his possession were cocaine, a sophisticated coca "refiner,"
a pipe for smoking hashish and 68 gold coins (each worth $427) from South African
countries.
Gilbert was arrested by agents of the Federal Police, headed by Commissioner Roberto
Felipe Porto, regional superint endent, who charged him with drug trafficking and
smuggling. Considered adminstratively, he is subject to deportation or expulsion
from the country.
Coming from Miami, Gilbert entered Brazii on 4 February and taok up lodginge in
= Caesar Park from which he moved shortly after Carnival, leaving an unpaid bill of
52,000 cruzeiros. The hotel management then complained to the Federal Police and
Superintendent Roberto Felipe Porto had a search made of other hotelB and a watch
put on the exits of the international airport.
Gilbert declared that he is a businessman--he entered Brazil with Israeli passport
1525803--and that he bought precious stones and gold coins in Miami and Los Angeles.
He intended to resell them in Tel Aviv for which he will embark at the end of this
- week.
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BRAZIL
COCAINE TRAFFICKER, DRIVER ARRESTED IN IRA,TA
Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 17 Mar 81 p 16 old, _ [Text] Drug trafficker Nivaldo Euzebiier�Jor,e r Nivinhada,Silva32
Jorge Carracaoe
cocaine pushers working for drug sm gg gwas arrested early yesterday morniner with xi driver TN-8753, Jose Natalino
Esteves, who served him as driver in his drug traffic
Taken unawares at the door of the nightclub, Kiss-Me, in Iraja, they attempted ~ison
escape but were pursued and QVegh~he sales contact~,ansentenLed d outletstof1Renatosde Souza ,
~ had, some months ago, taken rison.
Santos, or Tonelada, who had been arrested and sentenced to 22 years in p
In other action, the narcotics arrested aaiCustae inrthe~vicinitya
- house in the red-light district; a ,
of Beco do Braganca; and a fruitnal~=ihuanatheAllnwere bookedSby,Deputy Waltegs�n
- de Souza, who was selling fruit a
Botelho.
Took Control had The arrests of Nivaldo and JosQ Natalino occurred af~ornine NPolice ivinha was rat ethe d door
complaint by telephone on 9 March. Early yestQrday g
of the nighCclub in Jose NatialbnotofithenbouRua ncersbof the ni~htclubheKissiMe,
- arrived. The two were warned y one
' described as a white male, long hair ~~tbS~~eethcrossesdAgua Grande Streegh sAtethat
however, they were intercepted where
= point the two tried to escape~ncti and booked.ught with the police--but they were
_ overpowerOd, taken to the prec drawn Inside the taxi the police found lsg oNocaConrado Rocha, kNiva do~sa~aife.the
BANI33RINDUS [expansion unknown], signed by rma
Nivaldo revealed that the drug Was fellow fknown as Tata,mwho canobeofoundedailyhat
brother, Epaminondas, or Nondas, a
1300 hours at one of the hangouts of a lawbreaker known as Gordo, or Parrudo, in
front of the Iraja cemetery.
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BRAZIL
- BRIEFS
_ COCAINE RO?TTE 4iANGE--Porto Velho--The.route heretofore taken by pure Bolivian
_ cocai.ne--Rio, Sao Paulo and fareign markets--is changing, and the Federal Police
Superintendency in Rondonia Territory has already seized 6 kg of the drug in less _
than 30 days. This information was released by the Federal Police in the Rondonian
capital. The previous route pass2d through Mato Grosso do Sul. The latest con-
fiscatinn of pure cocaine occurred on the Mondaq of Carnival when the DPF [Federal
- Police Department] arrested Jose Claudio Pinheiro and a Bolivian, Manoel Sanchez
Ordoga, who were in possession of 1 kg of the drug. In Guajara-Mirim, a city on the -
Bolivian border, a Bolivian and three Brazilians were arrested for trafficking; they
were in possession of 3.5 kg of cocaine to be refined in Rio and Sao Paulo. [Text] -
[Rio de Janeiro JORNAL DO BRASIL in Portuguese 6 Mar 81 p 16] 8568
DRUG TRAFFICKERS SENTENCED--Silvio Gonzales Arguello, a Chilean, and Luiz Alberto
Gomes da Silva were sentenced yesterday bi, Judge Martha Valle Meira de Vasconcelos
of the 27th Criminal Court to 19 years in prison and a fine of 180,000 cruzeiros
. each for drug trafficking. An official communique will be sent to the Ministry of
- Foreign Affairs requesting that appropriate measures be taken in Arguello's cas e in
accordance with the law pertaining to foreigners. During the trial eight persons
- were charged with being in possession of 600 kg of marihuana coming from Paraguay
to Brazil; however, Silvio's and Luiz Alberto's trial was held separately at the
- request of their attorneys. [Text] [Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 24 Mar 81
- p 12] 8568
FORMER BANK GUARD ARRESTED--Yesterday at the Canastra Crossing in Inhauma, the
narcotics squad arrested a former bank guard, Altair Pereira Bastos, 26 years of
age, for having in his possession 5 packets of marihuana and 11 b,.gs of cocaine.
- When the police arrived, he attempted to escape to a shanty;�own in that vicinity by
running up the steps leading to the town; but he was caught and arrested. Two other
- drug traffickers, Erico Araujo and Celio Silva, were also arrested yeszerday
evening at the Morro do Andarai after an exchange of gunfire with soldiers of the
- 6th Battalion of Military Police. A sawed-off shot gun, a 38 caliber revolver and
a large quantity of ammunition as well as 47 bags of cocaine were confiscated by Lt
- 5anto Pietrof who led the raid. Erico was shot in the arm. [Text] [Rio de Janeiro
0 GLOBO in Portuguese 14 Mar 81 p 12] 8568
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NEW DRUG OFFICIAL INSTALLED--Brasilia--Deputy Hugo Povoa, former director of the -
Department of Political and Social Order (DOPS) of the Federal Police, was installed
yesterday as head of the narcotics division. Povoa was replaced in the COPS by
Deputy Nelson Marabuto, former superintendent of the DPF in Sao Paulo. After the
awarding of the Nobel Peace PrizE to Adolfo Peres Esquivel, Marabuto was released
from the superintendency of Sao Paulo. Col Moacir Coelho, director of the Federal
Police, was represented at the inauguration by Walter Dias, central coordinator.
[Text] [Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 13 Mar 81 p 51 8568
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CHILE -
~
COCAINE EN ROL*TE TO FRANCE CONFI3CATED
Santiago EL MERCURTO in Spanish 13 Mar 81 pp C-1, C-b
~
[Text] In a spectacular operation, agents of the OS-7 department of
the Carabineers [Anti-Smuggling Police] , arrested a gang of drug
traffickers at the Comodoro Arturo Merino Benitez Airport in Santiago.
Une of the four members of this gang, who was acting as � courier
' had a number of plastic bags attached to fiis body, bags containing
. cocaine hydrochloride with a 70 percent degree of purity.
- This shipment w3s headed for Paris, France, where the drugs would
have a value close to $1 million, reported the police.
Those arres ted were: Josefa Pilar Fuentes Otero, a Spanish citizen
and head of the group; she has a record of shoplifting in Spain,
France, the United States, and Chile; Francisco ynocencio de la Calle
Sote, 31 years old, a fugitive who escape after being arrested
on a drug charge last January. At that time his parents were ar-
rested; they were operating a iaboratory in the tow:z of San Miguel.
_ Also arrested was the international smuggler, Hector Alberto Valerio
Gonzalez, 47 years old, who, according to the police, was living in
Arica, and who was Flanning to leave the country using a false pass- t
port.
This was the second drug investigation made by the uniformed police
in less than 1 week. Last Monday seven drug traffickers with con-
nections in Peru, Chile, and the United States were arrested.
At that time the OS-7 confiscated tfie same amonnt of cocaine, but
that batch had a 90 percent degree of purity. Tt had been produced
by thn drug dealer F.illberto Olmeda. Among those arrested was the
former pro�essianal. socr.er plnyer, 5e.rni.o Ramirez Mauler..
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Drug Traffickers. These are the four drug traffickers arrestea at
the Comodoro Arturo Merino Benitez Airport with 2 kilos of cocaine.
From left to riglit are: Hector Alberto Valerio GonzalEZ, an inter-
national smuggler; Josefa PilAr Fuentes Otero, a criminal with Spa-
- nish citizenship; Francisco Inocencio de la Calle Soto, drug traf-
ficker; and Isaias Armando Zuniga de la Calle, who was carrying the
_ drugs in plastic bags attached to his body.
" Meeting in a Church
According to the police report, planning for shipping the drugs to
France began several months ago. The international criminal, the
Spaniard Josefa Fuentes Otero, decided to meet with her "close
friend," Alamiro Varas, a known cocaine supplier, who also provided
the other 2 kilos confiscated by the OS-7 last Monday, at the Votive
Chapel of Maipu.
- At that time, Varas was hiding from the police, and living in a
house belonging to the shopkeeper Irma Makuc. The place was chosen
- in order to avoid arousing suspicion.
There Alamiro Varas offered 2 kilos of cocaine to ,7osefa Fuentes.
But she could only buy 1 kilo, for which she paid $12,500. Because
of the danger Varas was in, he decided te give her the other kilo
of cocaine "on consignment." Then it was up to Josefa Fuentes to
_ get the cocaine to France.
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Contact in J zil
She began to find a solution to her problem when she went to the
Women's Prison in Santiago to vfsit tfie mother of Francisco Inocencio
de la Calle, who was arrested last January for possession of cocaine.
The visit coincided witfi a visit made on the same day by Francisco
Inocencio. While he vaas there, fiis mother asked Josefa Fuentes to
help her son to get out of the country, since fie was wanted by the
police for cocaine trafficking.
The Spanish woman agreed to help him. Tfien she offered him $3,000
to carry the drugs which she had bought a few days earlier. Fright-
_ ened at the prospect, he refused and snggested tfiat she try to con-
vince his cousin, _r.saias Armando Zuniga de la Calle, 31 years old.
Because of his lack of money, and attracted by the $3,000 that he
- would be paid, Zuniga de la Calle agreed to transport the drugs,
said the police.
Travel Agency
- An expert in obtaining false passports, Josefa Fuentes got one for
Francisco Inocencio de la Calle in the name of Marcos Ernesto
_ Sandoval Arredondo. Sfie also got another false passport for the
- international criminal, Flector A15erto Valerio Gonzalez, 47 years
old, who wanted to leave tfie country.
The ticke.ts were bought from a travel agency in the capital. But
one of them was bought by Va?ario Gonzalez fiimself, who, at the
time oj' signing, gave a ralse na:ne. The agent a~erted the police, who
folLowed i:.im until the day the shipment was to be taken to France.
According to the police, the four were arrested when they were
getting ready to board an Air France flight leaving for Orly Airport
in Paris.
Isaias Zuniga de la Calle was carrying the drugs iii tr;ee bags: one
attached to his ankle, another attached to his back, and the third
attached to his stomach. They were firmly z'-cached with adhesive
tape. He was also wearing a woman's girdle and pantyhose in order :o
= conceal tfie cocaine.
The persons arrested were charged with illesal possession and drug
trafficking and witfi falsification of public documents. They were
taken to the 21st Criminal Court of Pudahuel.
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I
BRIEFS
_ COCAINE FROM PERii--The narcotics brigade has arrested the following drug
traffickers and seized 2.4 kg of cacaine from them: (Pedro Ubalda Alvarez
Grimaldi), 51; (Fernando Calderon Calderan), 34; and (3orge Lidio Guer.ra), 44.
The police reported that (Guerra) had received the drug from a Peruvian
trafficker i~: order to sell it in Chile at an estimated cost of 7 million
- pesos. They were reportedly planning to carry out other operations at the
international level, although always through their Peruvian contact who had
promised to smuggle as much cocaine hydrochloride as possible into Chi1e
across the Tacna-Arica border. [PY171212 Santiago Chile Domestic Service
in Spanish 1730 GMT 16 Apr 81 PY]
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PJF INTERPOL COMMANDER ASSIGNEll TO NUEVO LAREDO
- Nuevo Laredo EL MANANA in Spanish 6 Mar 81 Sec B pp 1, 11
[Text] Luis Soto Silva, commander of the Federal Judicial Police, Interpol special
group, will take over today the oFfice of General Police Inspection in Nuevo Laredo,
at the appointment of the governor, Dr Emilio Martinez Manautou who, in a desire
to administer justice in our state in an equitable manner and to efficiently protect
the interests of Tamaulipas societp, has recruited the best individuals available
for his great goal.
Soto Sl.lva has had a brilliant career, because he has been a Federal Judicial Police
compander in several towns of the country, includj.ng Nuevo Laredo, where he success-
fully combated the dangerous rings of criminals who were fighting each other for
control of the drug traffic.
A career policeman, with vast experience in the mastery of the profession, Soto
Silva has taken intermediate command courses at the Federal Judicial Police Insti-
tute, as well as the course on the use and abuse of the consumption of dangerous
drugs and narcotics, ;-tven by members of the International Training Division-
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), of the U.S. Department of Justice.
- He has also takan a course on weapons and explosives given by agents from the U.S.
Department of Arms, Alcohol and Tobacco. He also attend.ed and successfully complet-
ed courses on i.ntielligence and planning given by members of the International Train-
_ ing Division (of the DEA), as wel'L as the course on personal defense and handling
of convicts, precision marksmanship, and short and long-barreled armed combat.
The new police inspector general was born in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua on 1 February
1936, and received his primary and secondary schooling in his native town. He later
went to Mexico City, to specialize at the National Polytechnical Institute, alter-
nating this with highl.y specializEd train:ing in aviation parachuting, with the
paratroop battalion.
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n
EXTORTION OF DP.UG TRAFFICKERS BY AUTHORITIES CHARGED
- Nuevo Laredo EL DIARIO DE NUFVO LAREDO in Spanish 21 Mar 81 Sec B n 3
[Text] The charges brought by the relatives of Ramon Guzman Villarreal, formerly
convicted of crimes against health in their various degrees, to the governor of
Nuevo Leon, Alfonso Martinez Dominguez, have insisted that che Office of the Attor-
ney General of Justice of the Republic initiate an exhaustive investigation of the
federal coordinator in this port, Carlos Aguilar G;arza, and the prosecutors; group
chiefs and agents of that entity.
All the federal officials detai-led tothis port are accused of committing extortion
involving millions against individuals who were er:gaged in drug trafficking in the
past.
A concrete instance is that of Ramon Guzman Villarreal, who was abducted by several
federal auxiliary agents, as well as actual agents, who extorted over 1 million
pesos for his release.
Identified among the federal agents who participated in this misdemeanor was Raul
Velazquez Castillo, as well as several auxiliary officers of the State Judicial
Police, and Luciano Rodriguez Robledo, an aide of the prosecutor Martinez Cerda,
and identified as a murderous felon, who is now being held in one of the rooms of
- the E1 Rio Motel.
Guzman Villarreal`s relatives had requested the intervention of coordinator Carlos
- Aguilar Garza to obtain his release. However, their appeals were not heeded and
' they were forced to have recourse to the federal prosecutors Nicolas Cerda Martinez,
Porfirio Barragan Rizo Villon, and the federal group chief, as well as Comdr Jose
Siordia Jimenez.
Unfortunately for them, all the federal officials based in this town refused to inter-
vene in the case; an3 hence they opted to seek the intervention of the governor of
Nuevo Leon, Alfonso Martinez Dominguez, who, after learning the aforementioned
facts, held a telephone conference with the attorney general of justice of the
nation, Oscar Flores Sanchez, and requested his aid in clearing up the natter.
At the request of the governor of the state of Nuevo Leon, the attorney general
assigned for this purpose Ricardo Tapia Salas, special prosecutor of the Office
- of Attorney General of the Republic, who has been in Nuevo Leon since Monday
_ conducting the pertinent investigation.
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It was also reported, unofficially, that Tapia Salas had already subjected the
_ coordinator, as well as all the prosecutore and several of the agents implicated
in the extortion case,to an investigation.
Moreover, it was established that the special investigator from the Attorney Gene-
ral's Office had ordered the arrest of Luciano Rodriguaz Robledo, a personal aide
of prosecutor Nicolas Martinez Cerda, because he is one of the leading participants
in the extortion case on which we are reporting.
~ According to inforuiation obtained from the feaeral agency, Luciano Rodriguez Robledo
is being held in one of the rooms at the E1 Rio Motel and, in addition to the crime
- which he committed, it is possiole that a suit will be brought against him for the
murder of the famous wrestler, Juan Diego.
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OFFICIAL IMPLICATED IN ESCAPE OF DRUG TRAFFICKER
= Nuevo Laredo EI, MANANA in Spanish 14 Mar 81 Sec B p 5
[Text] As a result of exhaustive i.nvestigations carried out by the agent of the Fede-
_ ral Public Ministry, Nicolas Martinez Cerda, there have been disclosures of the shady
= dealings engaged in during the past 6 yea.rs by the former head of crime prevention
and social rehabilitation, Enrique Duran Cruces, including the "off.icidl" escape of
the dangerous drug trafficker, Efren Gonzalez Olivares, alias "E1 Menso."
= The escape was discovered only Wednesday, by the federal prosecutor who, upon making
a check of the inuates of the municipal jail in Miguel Aleman, Tamaulipas, discovered
that Gonzalez Olivares was not in that prison. The lattei� was supposedly serving a
sentence, handed dotvn by the second district judge, wha imposed ajail term of 7
years and 3 months on him for his guilt in committing a crime against health.
_ On the occasion of the inmate's "disappearance," the deputy warden of the jail,
named Rosendo Reyes Corpus, was questioned, and stated that Efren Gonzalez had been
released at the order of the director, Jose Elias Barrera.
~ At the same time, Martinez Cerda discovered that the incarceration of that dangerous
federal convict in Lhe Miguel Aleman jail was improper, because, legally, he was
supposed to be held in the La Loma jail.
Without the authority of a legal nature, much less a fully executive order, the then
head of crime prevention and social rehabilitation, Enrique Duran Cruces, assumed
authority that he did not have to authori.ze and order the drug trafficker's transfer
from the jail in th.is town to that in Miguel Aleman.
Martinez Cerda reported: "The federal jurisdiction and the territoriality of the
pertinent district judge were invaded, because the prisoner was not even at the dis-
posal of the federal executive entity nor the state entity; and th2refore, there was
no reason to assiime the authority for allowing his transfer to another jail, since
- he was at the complete disposal of the second district court."
Until the appeal filed by the convicted individual abainst the prison sentence imposed
on him was resolved, Efren Gonzalez should have remained in the La Loma jail, pending
the authorization of his transfer by Cayetano Hernandez Valencia, head of the court
in which the case was being tried.
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Efren Gonzalez Olivares, alias "E1 Menso," member of a powerful ring of drug traffick- -
ers that had been operating in Miguel Aleman and Reynosa, was arrested in early Janu-
_ ary 1980, while in the company of customs guard Rolando Garcia Hinojosa, with whom
he was carrying a shipment of marihuana which they had just picked up at a farm4 '
"E1 Menso" was subsequently given a jail sentence of l years and 3 months for mari-
_ huana possession. His codefendant, Rolando Garcia, regained his freedom upon being
granted protection by a Coahuila court.
During December, Enrique Duran Cruces ordered the transfer of Efren Gonzalez to-the
Miguel Aleman jail, from which he managed to go free as a result.of shady systems.
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POPPY PLANTATIONS IN LINARES LOCATED, DESTROYED
Trafficker Escapes
Nuevo Laredo EL MANANA in Spanish 11 Mar 81 Sec B p 5
[Text] Three fully developed poppy plantations with the bulbs all ready to be
"scored" which, if this had occurred, would have supplied several kilograms of gum
- that would represent at least 10 kilograms of very pure heroin after processing -
were located and destroyed by Federal Judicial Police forces at the La Papa farm,
- near the municipality of Linares, Nuevo Leon.
The coordinator of the Federal Public Ministry agencies, Carlos Aguilar Garza,
announced that he had supervised the destruction of the plantations, noting that,
during the investigation, it was disclosed that the owner of the crops was the
drug trafficker Rene Villarreal Zepeda, who succeeded in escaping before the police
intervention. ~
- The police flights made with small airplanes and helicopters �rom the Office of the .
Attorney General of the Republic, which were ordered by Aguilar Garza in the Nuevo
~ Leon area, are still bringing positive results.
It was the persor.nel in one of the helicopters that "sighted the three plantations
Monday, on the La Papa farm, located on the Jesus Maria communal land in the muni-
a cipality of Linares, Nuevo Leon. _
~ One of the plantations covered 4 and a half hectares, with a density of 35'plants
- per square meter and a plant height of 15 centimeters.
On a nearby hectare and a half, there were poppies with a density of 30 plants per _
sqsare meter and a pl.ant height of 15 centimeters.
Nearby was another similar plantation, but it5 plants were 50 centimetzrs tall.
_ Aguilar Garza remarked that the poppy bulbs were all ready to be "scored." From -
that process the opium gum would result, and then be used to prepare several kilo-
- grams of heroin.
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Another Plantation Found
Nuevo Laredo EL MANANA in Spanish 12 Mar 81 Sec B p 5
[Text] Federal agents, assisted by members of the Nexican National Army, proceeded
to destroy another poppy plantation that was located early on Tuesday in the vicinity
of Linares, Nuevo Leon.
It was annour..ced that the federal agents were taking steps to destroy three planta-
tions discovered the day before, when the surveillance personnel ir~ a helicopter. -
- reported to them the site of another plantation.
It was a plantation measuring about 2 hectares. The plants had a density of 15
units per square meter, and their average height was 80 centimeters.
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- MEMBERS OF MARIHUANA SMUGGLING RING CAPTURED
Nuevo Laredo EL MANANA in Spanish 12 Mar 81 Sec B p 5
[Text] A well-organized ring of marihuana smugglers who had been operating in the
municipality of Camargo and surround ing towns was broken up by Federal Judicial
- Police agents, who simultaneously succeeded in capturing six individuals, seizing
113 bags filled with marihuana as well as several scales and many vehicles.
The presumed drug traffickers under arrest are Pedro Garza Ramirez, Sabas Tanguma
- Islas, Tdmas Hinojosa Barrera, Ma.cedonio Rios Silva, Martin Hinojosa de la Garza
and Andres Carrion Zuniga.
The ccordinator of the campaign against drug trafficking, Carlos Aguilar Garza,
annou.nced that the capture of the six aforementioned persons and the confiscation
of 1,150 kilograms of marihuana culminated a series of investigations that had been
started several weeks ago.
First to be arrested, in the settlement of Rancherias, in the municipality of Camar-
go, Tamaulipas, were Pedro Garza Ramirez and Sabas Tanguma. Islas, who were guarding
a storage place containing 94 burlap bags holding a total of 950 kilograms of canna-
bi.s indica. On the same site, a scale with a 90-kilogram capacity was found.
Continuing the investigation, in another residence located in the same area;
Tomas Hinojosa Barrera, Macedonio Rios Silva, Martin Hinojosa de la Garza and Andres
- Carrion Zuniga were arrested. They had nine bags in their possession, containing 200
kilograms of marihuana.
Seized from them were a scale, a 1976 Ford pickup truck with Texas license plates
RG-4852 and alsa a 1976 Ford car with Texas license plates MBH-993. A large amount
of marihuana residue was found in the ratter.
Aguilar Garza remarked: "The investigation has not ended, because we still hope to
- arrest the individuals who were si:,pplying the grass to those now in custody."
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TRAFFICKING RINGS HOLD GUN BATTLE ON RUNWAY
Culiacan EL SOL DE SINALOA in Spanish 27 Mar 81 p 2
[Text] Five persons dead, three seriously wounded and two missing is the toll of a
shootout that lasted about 12 hours between two rings of presumed drug traffickers,
the site of which was a landing strip in a locality known as La Meza de San Juan,
~ which is part of the municipality of Tamazula, in the state of Durango.
The incident took place between 0800 and 0900 hours in the morning, the day before
_ yesterday, until 2000 hours the same day, according to a report from police sources
in this capital, where the three wounded persons arrived yesterday afternoon on a
commercial airplane.
Left dead on the scene of the incident were the bodies of Rufino Ojeda Rios, aged 27;
Heriberto Ojeda Ojeda, aged 32; Manuel Ramirez Quinonez, aged 55; his son, Daniel
Ramirez Ramirez, aged 30; and Baldomero Silva Angulo, aged 20.
- Two persons are missing, whose identities are unknown thus far.
Wounded were the brothers Jorge and Felipe Silva Angulo, and Trinidad Ramirez, who
- are confined at the La Central Surgical Clinic in this capital, to which they were
+ admitted yesterday afternoon.
They were taken to this town aboard a commercial airline plane, the features of
which were not reported.
- The conditien of the wounded men is claimed to be quite critical, because they have
several bullet wounds, and all were inflicted with heavy caliber weapons.
- Police sources in *_hts capj_tal also reported that the conflict was due to personal
quarrels over matters apparently related to the drug traffic, which date back For
a long time, between the "Silvas" and the "Ramirez." On the morning of the day
hefore yesterday, one of the hostile groups got off a private plane in the settle-
ment of La Pleza, in the municipality of Tamazula Guadalupe, Durango; and it was
_ apparently being awaited by the other group, whereupon the shooting began.
In the fight, heavy caliber weapons were u5ed, M-1 and M-2 caliber machine guns,
: as we11 as the so-called "goat horns" and 45 caliber and 9 millimeter pistols; and
- the battle between the two groups lasted for nearly 12 hours: from 0800 or 0900
hours until 2100 hours, according to reports from police sources in this town.
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The number of bullet wounds sustained by those who were killed was not mentioned,
although it is presumed that there were several; because during the period that
the shootout lasted, despite the fact that several had already been shot, they
continued to receive several bullet wounds.
_ Ruf ino Ojeda Rios was a native and resident of the settlement of San Juan, in the
- municipality of Tamazula Victoria, Durango; Heriberto O~eda Ojeda, of the sett?ement
A of Norotal, in the same municipality; Manuel Ramirez del Trompiyal and his son, from
the same location; and Baldomero Silva Angulo, from Gentiles.
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NEXICO
HEROIN TRAFFICKER GIVEN 15-YEAR JAIL SENTENCE
Piedras Negras EL DIARIO DE PIEDRAS NEGRAS in Spanish 20 Mar 81 Sec B p 1 ff,
[Text] The federal judge of the second district court, Carlos Gilberto Canto Lopez,
issued one of the stiffest sentences that has been handed down in many years against
a drug trafficker. It was announced yesterday that Carlos Alvarado Carreno had been
sentenced to 15 years in jail for the crime of heroin transportation and exporting.
The foregoing was disclosed to EL DIARIO by the first secretar.y, Fernando Ventura,
wha noted that the judge issued this santence because he took into consideration
the high degree of danger and the seriousness of the crime committed against health.
Carlos Alvarado Carreno was arrested in Sabinas, Coahuila, where, according to the
charg,e, he had a heroin distribution center, using for this purpose married couples
who iraveled to San Antonio, Texas, where contacts were made for the delivery of =
the drugs in that city.
It was established that there was an international drug ring which had been destroyed
by United States narcotics agents in cooperation with the Federal Judicial Police
in this port.
� The discovery of that drug distribution center was a resul*_ of the arrest of the
- Castaneda couple, who were arrested in the United States with a certain amount of
drugs in their possession, which they were to deliver in a San Antonia supermarket, -
where the contacts for that illegal business took place. -
Upon being questioned by the American authorities, that couple confessed and accused
_ Carlos Alvarado Carreno as the individual with whom they made contact and from whom `
they purchased the heroin in Sabinas, Coahuila. The investigation in Mexican terri-
tory was carried out in cooperation with forces from the Mexican Federal Judicial
Police, and the subject was arrested. He denied all the charges, but they found in
his possession laboratory implements and equipment for "cutting" the drugs (as they
call it in underworld slang).
The individual received notification of his sentence through the actuary of the -
district court, a 15-year jail term. The criminal poisoner of socie.ty turned pale
and he had to lean aga.inst the wall so as not to collapse, as a result of the impact -
of the report of his sentence, which was tramendous. The attitude of the officials
from the district court was cold and mechanical; he was notified, and asked to sign
the receipt, and they finally left the jail. ~
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There, enclosed betwe.en four walls and steel bars, was another poisoner of the public.
They had put an end to one of the worst criminals, many of whom still remain in the
society, but sooner or later will have to pay for their guilt. sooner or later
will end up like Carlos Alvarado Carreno, inside a prison.
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GROUPS OF MARTHUANA, HEROIN TRAFFICKERS CAPTURED
Hermosilla EL IMPARCIAL in Spanish 26 Mar 81 Sec A p 8
[Text] This week, Federal Judicial Police forces detai.led to Nogales and Santa Ana
_ made several arrests of drug traffickers, seizing 150 grass of heroin from two of
- them, and 135 kilograms of marihuana from seven others.
Roberto Rafael Aguilar Castro aad Martha Silvia Lopez Garcia were the ones found
with heroin in their possession, and concerning whom there had been 3 report that
- they were engaged in the purchase and sale of that drug.
Their arrest took place in a residence on Canada de Buenos Aires, in the border
' town, where the heroin was found hidden in a flowerpot in the bathroom. A pickup
_ model car was also seized from them.
_ In this same town five individuals connected with m.:.rihuana trafficking were arre~at-
ed, as well as two others who were captured in Sa- .s An$, associated with the same
- case.
They are: Carlos Caballero Herrera, Gustavo Martinez Farias, Alejandro Garcia Rami-
rez, Faustino Machado Galindo and Francisco Velazquez Cardenas (in Nogales); and,
- arrested in Santa Ana: Ramon Vazquez Valle and Juan Mondragon Murillo.
In addition to the 135 kilograms of marihuana seized by the Federal Judicial Police,
confiscated from them were: three pistols; a shotgun; a 30-30 rifle; a 1975 Dodge
car with Arizona licer.._se plates vNV-929; a 1977 Maverick vehicle with Federal Dis-
trict license plates 608-BUE; a Ford pickup with State of Sonora license plates
UU-3195; and 83,000 pesos in cash.
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CAPTURED MARIHUANA TRAFFICKERS MAKE STATEMENTS
H. Matamoros EL BRAVO in Spanish 18 Mar 81 Sec A p 14
[Text] Appearing before the agent of the Federal Public Ministry, the three drug
traffickers arrested on Monday confirmed their preliminary statements, admitting
that they had, for some time, been engaged in bringing marihuana from the ir.terior
of the country Ln order to sell it on the American side;they will be turned over
- to the acting penal judge today.
The individuals in custody who appeared vesterday are Jose Cardenas Castro, Enrique ~
Barrera Cantu and Gustavo Bouchot Dominguez, nicknamed "E1 Brujo," whose status is '
very difficult, because the evidence was found on them and they have also made a
complete confession. ~
Last night, the three individuals were confined in the municipal jail; and today
they will be turned over to Jose :.liis Arevalo Contr.eras, second judge of the second
instance, who will acC on behalf of the federal justice system in this case.
It was yesterday morning when the arrested subjects, Jose Guadalupe Cardenas Castro,
Enrique Barrera Cantu and Gustavo Bouchot Dominguez, began making their statements
to Alfredo Olivares Osuna, who is compiling the preliminary penal evidence against
_ these individuals.
' Jose Guadalupe Cardenas ueclared that what he had stated to the Federal Judicial
Police was factual: that he had for some time been engaged in bringing marihuana
from the interior of the country, and from there to Matamoros. His associ.ates,
Enrique Barrera and Gustavo Bouchot Doming,uez, were responsible for transferring
it to the American side, for sale there.
He noted that he had purchased the slightly over 50 kilograms of marihuana seized
from thEm in the municipality of Acoyucan, Veracruz, "last Saturday, and that, on
Sunday, he was about to rPturn to Matamoros aboard the ADO bus, but was discovered
and arrested at the Federal Judicial Police checkpoint, on the site known as La
Joya.
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- BRIEFS
MARIHUANA, WEAPONS SEIZED--Mexico City, 18 March (INFORMEX)--During the past 12 hours,
10 drug traffickers were arrested by the Federal Judicial Police in various parts of
the republic. About a ton and a half of marihuana, two vehicles and weapons of vari-
ous calibers were seized from them. On the Ciudad Aleman-La Tinaja highway, near
Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, the Judicial Police arrested two individuals who were riding in a
Chevrolet pickup truck without license plates, of foreign origin, in which they
were carrying 500 kilograms of the drug. The other arrests were made in Morelia
- and Tacambaro, Michoacan; Tecalitlan, Jalisco; La Joya, Tamaulipas; and the Saltillu-
Matehual.A highway, in San Luis Potosi. It was learned th;at most of the drugs were
to be transported to Brownsville, Texas. [Text] [Mexicali LA VOZ DE LA FRONTERA in
Spanish 19 Mar 81 Sec A p 8] 2909
COCAINE FROM PERU SEIZED--Mexico City, 23 March (OEM)--Yesterday, pure cocaine worth
50 million pesos on the black market was seized from a Cuban man and woman who were,
however, natior.alized Americans, when they deplaned at the international airport in
Mexico City. The Federal Judicial Police under orders from Comdr Armando Martinez
Salgado, detailed to the iiiternational airport, after the usual surveillance of all
_ flights coming from Central and South America, noticed that the woman was extremely
nervous; whereupon they immediately made a detailed search of both her and her com-
panion, who proved to be her husband. They found plastic bags at her waist and other
parts of her body, containing a total of 2 kilograms and 200 grams of cocaine. The
couple claimed to have arrived on Argentine Airlines flight 378, from Lima, where
_ they had traveled in order to "do business." There, commented Florentino Fuentes,
husband of Manuela Esther de Fuentes, "we met 'Ruben' who asked us to take this ship-
ment to be delivered to someone at the Hotel Maria lsabel Sheraton." They explained
that this was the first time that tiney had done this kind of "fatior," and said that
there were very sorry. They claimed to have a residence in New York, where both were
engaged in legal activities. [Text] [Culiacan EL SOL DE S?NALOA in Spanish 24 Mar 81
- p 10] 2909
- MORE POPPY PLANTA'lIONS FOUNU--The Federal Judicial Police in Sonora are continuing
- co make further discoveries of poppy plantp,~ions in the state's mountainous area,
since the arrival of two helicopters sent by the Office of the Attorney General of
the Republic, having located over 50 poppy plantations as of yesterday. However,
it is believe-4. that there are many more which could not be discovered pY:viously
because the searches were made in a small plane, which was very difficult to do
efficiently in a mountainous area, acco-rding to the agent of the Federal Public
Ministry, Ernesto Avila Triana. Between Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, reports
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were made of the existence of 34 more poppy plantations measuring 48,000 square
meters, near the farm known as "Corral Quemado" (36,000 square meters), on the
Dolores farm (9,000 square meters) and on Mesa de San Agustin (3,000 square meters), ~
- all located in the Municipality of Sahuaripa. On most of them there was a densi;ty bf _
20 plants per square meter. Also, on the plantations near "Corral Quemado," the -
plants were 1 meter and 20 centimeters tall; while elsewhere Chey were 30 centi- ~
meters and 5 centimeters tall. [Text] [Hermosillo EL IMPARCIAL in Spanish 20 Mar 81
Sec A p 12 ] 2909
POPPY PLANTATIONS DESTROYED--The Federal Judicial Police discovered 29 more poppy ~
plantations in the municipality of Sahuaripa between Sunday and yesterday, Monday,
over an expanse of 27 , 000 square meters. This report was made by Comdr Mondragon
Olguin, who added that an investigation is being made of the owners of the land on
which the poppies are planted. The discovery was made by means of the helicopter -
making the air search for the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic in the
_ state's mountainous area. The plantations in question are located around the San
Antoniofarm, and will be fumigated with gramaxone and esterol. Fifteen poppy
plantations were found east of that farm, over an area of 10,000 square meters;seven
- plantations covering 8,000 square meters were.found northwest of that reference -
point; and the remaining seven were found in the northeast area, covering 9,000
square meters. Most of them had a density of 30 plants per square meter, and a
height of 15 centineters. [Text] [Hermosillo EL IMPARCIAL in Spanish 17 Mar 81 Sec
A p 8] 290 9
TR.AFFICKEKS CAUGHT--Federal Judicial Police forces succeeded in d'Lscovering a poppy
plantation near Sahuaripa, through the air tours that are made for this pupose.
According to the information supplied by the Federal Judicial Police, the area
planted with poppies was 4 hectares, located 17 kilometers north of the aforemention-
ed town. Ernesto Avila Triana, agent of the Federal Public Ministry, announced that
the discovery ttad been made from a helicopter provided by the Of f ice of the Attorney
Generalof the Republic. He also reported that Ezequiel Betanzos, who is in custody
ac cused of being implicated in a fraud ir,volving over 50 million pesos carried out
through a nonexistent bank, was discovered to be a~member of an international ring.
His involvement in that fraud was learned vhen it was discovered that at least four
more persons were implicated, and had fled ; o the United States. Now, Avila 'Triaiia
- ha s report ed that the Federal Judicial Police arrested two more members of this ring,
who arebeing held in this state. [Text] [Hermosillo EL IIPARCIAL in Spanish 14 Mar
81 Sec A p 2] 2909
PHYSICIAN ARRESTED WITH HERO IN--Tij uana--Agen t s of the Federal Judicial Police arrest- _
ed Ur Jidlap Meza Iriarte, aged 25, as he was about to make a sale of 4 ounces of _
heroin. The members of this force had been investigating him for some time, since ~
~ he was known to be engaged in this kind of transaction. The foregoing was learned
in the oEf ice of the general coordinator of the permanent campaign against drug-
trafficking Por the northwestern section of the country, Alfredo Aaron Juarez.
They had been probing the Tijuana physician for severaY days, because they had
f o undoutthaC he was keeping the heroin in his possession, so as later to deliver
it to unknown persons who came from the United States. [Text] [Mexicali LA VOZ DE -
LA FRONTGRA in Spanish 8 Mar 81 Sec B p 121 2909 ~
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- AIRPLANE WITH MARIHUANA SEIZED-.-San Luis, Sonora--National Army forces discovered
an airplane containing 2 tons of marihuana worth about 60 million pesos on the
black market at a clandestine airstrip near the Gulf of Santa C'lara. It would
appear that the Beechcraft plane experienced mechanical failure when it was located
98 kilometers southeast of this town, which prevented it from I:aking off. No one
was found in the airplane, but several bags of marihuana were discovered on one
side of it. The detection of the drugs was made by the military patrol detailed to
the district, under orders from the garrison commander, Gen Ernesto Gutierrez Gomez
Tagle, at dasm on Thursday. When the discovery was made, more troops were requested
to comb the area and locate the smugglers, something which has not taken place as
yet. The marihuana was first taken to thie town, and later sent to the military
_ zone located in E1 Ciprss, in the municipality of Ensenada. Comdr Gutierrez Gomez
Tagle issued orders for military policemen dressed in civilian clothes to make the
pertinent investigation. The Office of the Attorney General of the Republic was
iniormed of the incident and, in turn, gave instructions for the aircraft to be
kept in the posaession of the authorities, so that they might carry out the appro-
priate procedures. [Text] [Mexicali.LA VOZ DE LA FRONTERA in Spanish 7 Mar 81 Sec
Bp12]2909
CAR-STEALING TRAFFICKERS CAUGHT--Mexico City, 16 March (NOTIMEX)--An international
r ing of drug traffickers who were exchanging stolen cars for drugs which they later
sold in the United States was broken up here today. Agents from the Crime Prevention
Investigation Division (DIPD) recovered at least 10 of the vehicles, nearly all late-
model cars, which were ready to be taken to Veracruz, where they would be traded for
marihuana. Held in the police headquarters lockup are Manuel de Guadalupe Pineda
Monge, Jose Enriquez Canera, Ascencio Hernandez Bautista and Victor M. Flores, who
confessed to their participation in drug smuggling and in the theft and trading of
cars. The detectives retrieved five Volkwagens, three Fords, one Datsun and a Chevro-
let piclcup truck. The individuals in custody admitted that the drugs had been taken
to the United States in trailers and trucks, in suitcases with false bottoms and
through the parcel services of various bus lines. [Text] [Piedras Negras EL DIARIO
_I DE PIEDRAS NEGRAS in Spanish 17 :Iar 81 p 11 2909
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VENEZUELA
= EDITORIAL VOICES CONCERN OVER DRUG TRAFFiCKING TNCREASE
= Caracas EL DTARIO DE CARACAS in 5panisfi 25 Feb 81 p 6
- [Editorial]
]-[Text] On Monday night the PTJ jJudicial Technical Police] and the
- DISIP [Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention Services] had one
of their biggest successes in recent weeks. Tn a joint raid they
seized 80 kilos of cocaine, whose street value ?_s estimated at about
100 million bolivars.
The first versions indicate that the "mercr.andise" was to be
reexported to the United States. Nothing has yet been said about
I the national distribution system--perfiaps not of tfiis batch--but
, of the drugs that the police don't find.
' Bringing 80 ki.los of cocaine into the country is not something done
-by children. It takes a suPficiently well connected setup with a
number of control paints; it also requires a distribution network;
I this obviously exists, because no one would import 80 kilos of co-
' caine into Venezuela just to store ?.:t untiZ an opportunity arose to
! ship it north, to the CariSbean, or to Europe, tfie main drug markets.
_ In two recent editorials, on 4 and 8 February, EL DIARIO DE CARACAS
, warned of the grave dangers ihreatening oux nation, because of the
harsfi reality of the drug world. The member countriec of the Andean
Pact, and now Brazil as well, have become prosperous producers and
- exporters of hard drugs and of marijuana. The distance of these
countries from their main markets has made Venezuela, a rich country
with few controls, an ideal sort of customer. If until now the air
and sea routes ot the traffickers dfd nat incl.ude Venezuela on thei r
itineraries, the evidence of 80 kilos of cocaine shows that this
trend is changing, and that we are now facing an onslaught from
the drug traffickers. Specialists esti~mate that only 10 percent of
the drugG circulating in a given country are found. If this figure
is correct, its implications for Venezuela are truly horrifying,
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_ and there is a real wave of cocaine and other hard drugs pouring
into Venezuela. This succes!~; of tfie Pr1'? and the DTSTP is not a
- victory. Tt is barely -the start of a battle against this cancer
- that only a few nations have manayed to cure once its social struc-
tures have been infQcted.
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VENEZUELA
PTJ CAPTURES 80 KILOS OF COCAINE
Caracas EL DIARIO DE CARACAS in Spanish 25 Feb 81 p 32
[Article by E. L.]
~ [Text] On Monday night in a joint police raid, the Venezuelan police
canfiscated drugs valued at 80 million bolivars. The drugs were
four,d in the bathtub of a fiouse located in La Boyera, owned by a
Paraguayan diplomat. Police officials Iielieve this gang to be headed
by one of the leaders in the drug traffic, Alejandro Vasquez Caicedo
(Rene Caicedo).
At noon on Monday the director of the PTJ jJudicial Technical Police],
Jorge Sosa Chacin, went to Miraflores Palace. His visit to the of-
fice of the president had a douElepnrpose. One of these purposes
was revealed at 1700 tfiat evening: "Fie went to present a bill on ad-
ministrative personnel of tfie PTa.1 Tfie otfier reason for his visit
was to be made public sfiortly after 2200 tIiat same night: the PTJ
- and the DISIP [Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention ServicesJ
raided a house in La Boyera, where they found between 75 and 80 kilos
of cocaine, valued at 80 mil'lion bolivars.
_What aroused some suspicion about the visit to Miraflores Palace was
~ that Sosa Chacin apparently requested a meeting--unscheduled?--with
the minister of foreign affairs, Justo Oswaldo Paez Pumar. He was
� in a meeting with the nresident, Luis Herrera Campins, and with the
prime minister of Baxbados, Tom Adams. Paez Pumar left the office
of the president for a few minutes and listened attentively to the
report of the top police official. Then Sosa Chacin left the Mira-
flores Palace.
Yesterday on the third floor of the PTJ headquarters, its direc.tor
gave a press conference to announce the seizure of the drugs and
the arrest of the following six persons:
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Francisco Rios Alvarez, 62 yeaxs ol.d, a Spanish national, residing
_ at 4tli Street, Blanca Lila toamfiouses, in La Boyera. In the bath-
tub of this house the PTJ found tfie drugs and about $116,000 in
- cash, carefully arranged inside a small cardboard box, with a Miami revPnue stamp. '
Geulis Gamero Tafur, 50 years old, a Colombian national. She is - the wife of Rios Alvarez. She wrxs arrested in tfie raid of the La
Boyera house. Her neighbors ciescribe her as a"very good and
very helpful" person. She fias two cfiildren who are studying in
Colombia.
Bruna Raquel Caro de Nieto. She is the household warker of the
Rios Gamero family. -
Ramon Antonio Maldonado Acosta, who was arrested at a house in
Santa Monica. He has a mid-level job at the Venezuelan International
- Airlines.
- Rafael Alberto Sanchez Jerez, arrested in Santa Monica, Venezuelan.
The PTJ gave no further information about him.
Nestor Villarta Ramirez.
The PTJ is how looking both inside and outside of Venezu3la for
Alejandro Vasquez Caicedo (Rene Caicedo), wfio is cliarged with being
the head of this gang, whicfi is pa.rt of the Iiuge organization known
as the "Latin Connection."
Sosa Chacin did not hesitate to say: "Caracas is not just a br:dge
for the drug traffic. This group had its center oi' operations here."
The drugs were brought from La Paz via Bogota, and from here were
sent to New Yo.rk and Canada. The house in La Boyera is owned by
Francisco Bueno de los Rios, consul at the Embassy of Paraguay. This
fact appears to be what caused Sosa Cfiacin to go to the Miraflores
Palace on Monday.
.
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u VENEZUELA
BRTEFS
MANDRAX TRAFFTCKER ARRESTGD--A drug trafficker operating in the
central coastal area was arrested by the Area 1 Tntelligence De-
partment of the Metropolit-an Police at La Guaira. This was re-
ported by the Metropolitan Police, wfio gave the name of the person
- arrested as Al.fredo Correa Serrano, 20 years old, who has four
- entries in the police records at La Guaira for the same c:rime.
This person had been under surveillancE, and after the appropriate
_ investigations, a warrant was issued for the search of a house lo-
cated on Calle Real in the Montesano area of La Guaira. During
this search 858 Mandrax pills, a 7.65-caliber pistol, some mer-
. chandise of doubtful origin, 69 receipts, and 5,000 bolivars from
- drug sales were confiscated. Tfie police also arrested the owner
_ of the house where the drugs were found, but his name has not been
released, pending the conclusion of investigations. [Text]
[Caracas EL UNIVERSAL in Spanish 16 Mar E1 Sec 4 p 351 7679
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AFGHANISTAN
NARCOTICS POLICE OFFICERS COMPLETE TRAINING IN FINLAND
Helsin'_ci WSI SUOMI in Finnish 7 Feb 81 p 8
[Article: "Afghan Police in Narcotics Training"]
[Text] Two Afghan narcotics police have been in Finland for approximately a
month for txaining. Raimo Turkki of the police section in the Ministry of
_ Internal Affair s states that the Afghan policemen will leave Finland in
the near future.
Ttte Afghan policeme4 who arrived in the beginning of January, are in Finland as _
recipients of a UN scholarship. According to Turkki the training of the Af.ghan
_ police is part of the normal development cooperation between Finland and various
foreign countr ies.
"We have had police from Kenya, among other places, here for training. The
Afghanistani police have become familiar with Finland's research on drug related
crimes in the Helsinki Police Department, the Central Criminal Police, the Labo-
- ratory of Criminology, and the Tampere Police Department, among other places." `
The Central Criminal Poli.ce is responsible for their training. Central Criminal -
Police Chief Toivo Laeto considers tHe training of Afghan police to be very
unusual.
- "Generally an exchange of training occurs between Fir.land and the other Nordic
countries and primarily when Finnish police visit the other Norc?ic countrles."
10576
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IRAN
BRIEFS
DRUGS SEIZED--The Shiraz antidrug squad has seized 60 grams of heroin
_ and 360 kg of tobacco from a number of Afghans. [GF151618 Shiraz
Domestic Service in Persian 1530 GMT 15 Apr 81 GF]
OPIUM SEIZED--Accoraing the PARS NEWS AGENCY, more than 42 kg of op ium
_ were seized from smugglers in Jiroft, Kermar. last week. , Two of the
smugglers were arrested. [LD231002 Tehran Domestic Service in Persian
- 1630 GMT 22 Apr 81 LD]
FARS NARCOTICS HAUL,-In the past 10 days the Islamic revolut'.on guards of FARS
have seized more than 544 gm of hashish, opium and heroin and 43 gm of [word
indistinct] and burnt opium. The accused have been handed over to the FARS Islamic
; Revo"Lution Cnurt. [GF191945 Shiraz Domestic Service in Persian 1830 GMT 19 Apr 811
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CAMERQpN
ARRESTS REPORTED FOR GROWING 'ACRES' 0F HEMP
Yaounde CAMEROON TRIBUNE in English 11 Mar 81 p 7
jText] A sixty-year old mother, Awah Biy, and her son, Killian Taboih, (26) -
both of Kikaikelaki village in the Kumbo Urban Council of Bui Division were on
February 3, 1981, each sentenced to four years imprisonment with hard labor by
Court 'Itao of the Kumbo Court of T+irst Tnstance presided over by the second
Magistrate Mr DK Jator. The Court found the accused persons guilty of a two- _
count charge of c.ultivating and unlawful possession of Indian Hemp contrary to
' and punishable under section 5(1) and 20 (1) (a) of the Dangerous Drugs Ordi- -
nance as read with Law No. 68/LF/8 of 11/6/68. _
The court was informed by the police prosecutor GPX Inusa Geoffrey that some-
times last year, on information, the Kumbo police conducted a search at the
residence of the accused at Kikaikelaki where a substantial quantity of r.iarijuana
together with seeds were discovered. The police later proceeded to a farm owned
by the very persons at a nearby village Kiko--4 kilometres fi:om the village
I where they found the plants being grown on the farm.
This exercise could not I:ave been accomplished without the ab]_e assistance given
the police by some village vigilant militanrs who also gave evidence at the
trial.
The Magistrate found them guilty and sentenced them as ch.arged.
It is to be noted that the understanding of the Green Revolution here is in the
contrary as acres and acres of Indian Hemp are secretly being cultivated by
both the young and the old. The danger attributed to the smoking of marijuana
are many. Agart from giving those who smoke it a false sense of courage, con-
taminates their energies and makes them unfit for any sensible contribution to
development.
ttany times administrative and political leaders have in public meeting called
_ on youth in particular to desist from the consumption of Indian hemp but to
no avail.
To succeed therF�fore everybod-: must be involved in the war against this bad
practice which breeds so many ,ocial evils in the society. The forces of law and ~
order are not magicians they need the cooperation and assistance of the population
to clamp down on all those who are indulged in the business. Let otiier communi-
ties in Bui and elsewhere copy the example of the people of Ki.kailElaki and Kiko
to help the police so that they may in turn be helped by the police out of this
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,
AUSTRIA
BRIEFS
- HEROIN DISCOVERY--At the Walserberg Austrian-FRG border checkpoint near Salzburg,
border guards discovered 4.3 kilos of heroin hidden in special containers weldec'i
' onto the rear axle of a Mercedes car driven by 56 year old Mustafa 0., a Turkish
-~I cirizen. The driver had come from Ankara. Police assume that the heroin, whir.h
~ has a:i unusually high purity of 95 percent, was to be taken to Frankfurt ox
Amsterdam. [AU121604 Vienna KURIER in German 1 Apr 81 p 181
HASHISH DISCOVERY--Austrian police discovered 750 kilos of high-quality hashish
in a truck with British license p:Lates that had been parked atthe-Wiener Neudorf
parking lot at the Sudedautobahn Highway [near Vienna] for the past 2 weeks.
According to the truck papers, the vehicle had come from Pakistan. Police, who
learned from their British colleagues that a similar truck with 700 kilos of hashish
from Pakistan had recently been seized by British authorities, believe that the
truck was to be picked up from the parking lot and driven to the same destination,
a London forwarding agency. [Vienna ARBEITER-ZEITUNG in German 21 Ma.r 81 p 7]
CSO: 5300/2294
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DENMARK
,
WITH COPENHAGEPI' S`r"'2i EE CITY,' DENMARK IS DRUG CENTER
Scockholm SVENSKA DAGBLADET in Swedish 9 Mar 81 p 7
[Text] Copenhagen (SVENSKA DAGBLADET's foreign correspondent). There are more
down-and-out persons than before; often they have iteither a place nor a family to
turn to. And they are younger. Most of our time is spent �aith 14-18-year olds.
- That is what the two Swedish social workers who are working with Swedish youths
in Copenhagen state. They are working with youths who are often taking a variety
of drugs and who often live in Christiania.
Helena Alring who has been in Copenhagen f_or 5 years was previously, among other
' things, chief curator at Langbro. Anders Forare who arrtved five wonths ago, cane
from a treatment collective in Vasterbotton where he was the director.
, Now they are devoting their time to what they call qualified trips home for young
Swedi.sh drug abusers in Copenhagen. For 10 years, Sweden has had such a program
_ and the social workers are staying together with Norwegian, Danish and Finish
- colleagues in a nondescript brown house near Halmtorvet, where heavy addicts often
find the.ir way.
These are, however, mostly Danes. With a few exceptions, the Swedish hEroin
addict, stay in Sweden.
- The Swedes' clien*_s are instead young people who mostly smoke hashish. A couple
of ti.mes a week, the social workers go to Christiania to keep track of the drug
abusers and to coiitinue their intensive work to try to get them to go home to
Sweuen and choose another life.
- "Many of them support themselves by selling hashish in addition to using 4-t them-
selves," says Anders Forare. "They quickly become passive and indifferent Lrom
smoking hasish, and they no longer care about tlieir futlire.
"In ^ddition, they are on a dangerous path, since dealing in liashish is illegal.
They can quickly end up being brought before the law."
As a result of his experiences in Sweden, he is upset by the fact that there is so
much ambiguity iii the attitude toward drug abuse. the same ambiguity exists in
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the question of a treatment method. There is no agteement on a definition of
what is considered drug abuse and how the ptou'-zm should be met.
Helena Alring, who has many years of experience in Christiania, claims that those
who live there--about 700--have nevertheless succeeded in dealing with the problem
of hard drugs, and have gotten rid of them from "the free city."
(hi the other hand, they demand free hashish with the reasoning that, among other
things, it would make the hashish smokers l.ess dependent on the dealers, and the
dealers would not be able to manipulate the hashish users into using harder drugs.
_ However, Anders Forare thinks that the Christianites ought to take the step to
_ stop completely even the use of hashish. If that happened, one would be able to
_ talk about a community experiment.
The Swedish youths now stay in Christiania longer than before. Previously they
came for short summer visits and then returned home to family and school. Those
who come now are more down and out. They often stay between a couple of weeks to
a couple of months.
- Often it is the cold, the filth and the illnesses which make them dedide to go home.
Helena Alring reports that Christiania is a place difficult to comprehend, ha.ving
, both pop-music stars in charming apartments as well as down-and-out teenagers in
j cold, wretched places with ill-smelling ma.ttresses.
"A Swedish kid lived in an old car during an entire winter.
"Many get staphylococcus and wa.1_k around with constantly o~.>en sores. However, when
they get to this point they have usually had enough and we can start our move to
y get them home," says Anders Forare.
The social workers work voluntarily. They have no authority and cannot use direct
force.
"However, this does not mean that we ha.ve ico take any nonsense from our clients,"
they say. "Quite the contrary. We are quite authoritative, especially towards
the youngsr ones. We tell them that they should not stay here, take them by the
- hand, and buy them a train tieket home."
It is very important that the trip home take place at the right time, and that it
is properly planned, they say. Otherwise the youths return to Copenhagen after a
' c oup le o f days.
They also "treat" parents, list�en to concerned conversations, try to arrange con-
tacts and talk about the situation. Often, the relationships ha.ve already
collapsed and the youths have previously traveled around, and stayed both at
f riends' or in the street.
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I also always try to calm the parents by saying that it is not as dangerous to
Iive in Christiania as one thinks it is, says Helene Alring. SQrgels Square and
Gallerian are at least as dangerous.
Glamour Disappears
However, she also says that Christiania--just like the society as a wh6le--is much
tougher today than it was five years ago. The first fascination, that of sharing
bread with another, and alwa.ys being able to find a place to sleep, is slowly dis-
appearing. '
Life hardens people. They themselves are having difficulties supporting them-
selves, providing the bread and the cigarettes. And the pioneers in Christiania
- do not welcome the newly-arrived, so life becomes meager and sad,
~ The reason that the young people still stay is the lack of alternatives at home.
- The group of "adventurers" becomes smaller, and the group of down-and-out persons
with serious problems becomes larger.
It is difficult to estimate the number of Swedes in Christiania, the social workers
say. They ha.ve intense contact with 30 with whom they constantl,y work. They are
working with about the same number of people on "a long-term basis," and in addi-
tion, just as many live under rather orderly conditions.
More than two-thirds are boys. It is only among the very youngest that the girls
are in the majority.
Denmark Has a Key Ro1e in the Fight Against Drugs
Copenhagen (SVD's foreign correspondent). It is extremely easy to buy drugs in
, Copenhagen. This gives Denmarl: a key role also as far as our fight against hashish
is concerned.
Ak-e Petterson, state secretary in the social department, has devoted almost all his
time during the Nordic Council's session in Copenhagen to studying and discussing
the drug situation in Denmark.
He has visited the Swedish social workers who have contact with the Swedish drug
- abusers in Copenhagen.
He has discussed the problem with his colleagues in the Nordic governments.
And he has visited the "Free City" Christiania, where the hashish dealers hawk
their goods and hold them out to bypassers.
In the Swedish government, they are not only upset about the hard drugs which the
Swedes buy in Denrnark. They also want to stop the sale of hashish.
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Hashish is a Seed of Dissension in Nordic Collaboration
Ha.shish is the sole seed of dissension in the Nordic drug collaboration. The other
Nordic countries do not think that the Danish authorities are taking the use nf
cannabis seriously E.:ough.
The Swedish government has the definite opinzon that hashish often leads to harder
_ drugs. As an example they do not apprave of such shows as the Roskilde festival.
Tha.t festival is supposed to offer only music, but Swedish authorities feel that in
reality it offers both music and drugs.
_ Many young Swedish people get their first contact with hashish at that fest-val,
- a contact which can become fateful. The youth who has had no hashish contacts
previously later buys his hard drugs most easily in Copenhagen. They mostly deal
in cannabis and a kind of morphine pills which are called "Pakistan pills."
From a Swedish point of view, it is very serious that youths can so easily travel
to Denma.rk and buy drugs, says Ake Petterson. It is a big problem for Fi7land,
Norway and Sweden.
The Mafia Society Could Be Rea1
He sees unprecedented prospects as far as dealing in drugs is concerned.
--The financial turnover in drugs in Europe will probably exceed Sweden's gross
national product in just a few years. Already today, the drug business in Europe
realizes several hundred billion kroner per year.
Ake Petterson warns that if the development continues as it is now, it could become
a threat to the democratic system in Europe as early as in 10 to 15 years. The
hashish brings along black market money which is invested in real estate, land and
enterprises. It is also used for buying power and influence, thereby corrupting
- the society. It creates much crimina.lity which in itself is a threat to the
safety of people. The Mafia society could become a reality.
This is not a reality today, but it is a realistic perspective if this develop-
ment cortinues.
The hashish business is at the present time characterized by a struggle between
different sales areas. This could lead to a confrontation for the market, which
in turn would Iead to an increase in the sale of drugs.
Ake Petterson also warns against drug use by the middle-class and the drug philo-
sophy whicli, for example says that to combine hashish smoking with a normal,
bourgeois life is fine.
Lack of awareness is the breeding ground for moving from lighter to harder drugs.
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"The Free City" Decays
On a sunny and cold morning we are walking through the now 10-ye3r-old Christiania.
- It looks shockingly decayed. Big dogs ruii loose and dig in the garbage piles
which are everywhere. Garbage collection is sporadic just as the water sugply and
the emptying out of the sewage.
, The only beautification is the paintings on some of the houses. They bloom in
- colors and psychedelic designs.
Just inside the muddy main entrar_ce to "the free city" there are several tables.
_ Here hashish pipes are offered for sale. Further into the area, hashish dealers
are standing, ha.wking their goods. Some hold out brown hashish cakes, half-
' wrapged in foil.
Child Chops Wood
Children come from the school and knock on the closed houses. Some of the houses
are in pretty good condition. It is said that some of the Yiouses have hot water
and similar conveniences, but most of the houses which we pass look like slum
dwellings with broken windows, scantily repaired with cardboard and plastic.
A child chops wood witr a big ax. Other children, younger, come riding on their
parents' shoulders.
- One feels like an outsider, a little afraid and uncomfortable. Christiania looks
depressing; like a dream that has broken. However, the social workers and others
who have worked with the young people in Christian:a for a long time think that
there are both good and bad parr,s, children who are living under bad conditions,
but also children who are living under good Gonditions.
Sad and Gray
There are pioneers in Christia.nia who liye prderly lives. There are fallen
addicts and youths who are hardened crimi.nals, living in cold, dirt and povPrty,
and who are robb2d by their so-called friends.
In the area's cGfes, the hashish smoke is thick. One cannot stand it there for
more than one hour, says a social worker who experienced a"culture shock" the
first time he came to the area.
During the summer, Christiania supposedly looks like an Eastern market, but on a
March afternoon like this it only looks dirty, sad and grey.
--We rarely talk of Christiania nowadays, says a Danish journalist.
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DENMARK
RETIRING NARCOTICS POLICE CHIEF COMMENTS ON OUTLOOK
Copenhagen BERLINGSKE TIDENDE in Danish 10 Mar 81 p 2
[Article by Anders Wiig]
[Text] While drugs in many forms are flowing into the country, the narcotics
police fight a tough fight to slow down drug abuse. The police chief for the
last 6 plus years, P.M. Gauguin, has decided, at the age of 67, to say goodbye -
and thank you.
The energetic and temperamental chief of Capenhagents narcotics police for the
past 6 plus years, detective chief inspector Pedro Maria Gauguin, is stepping
. down. The 67-year old police chief says that after 40 and 1/2 years he himself
thinks that i.t is time for him to retire.
- Without being or feeling worn out, Gauguin has chosen to say goodbye to one
of the more demanding police jobs. The retirement will take effect at the
end of May--at exactly the time when larger forces and even larger resources
are expected to be made available to fight drug criminality. This is an increase
for which Guaguin has been the spokesman since 1968 when he was a part of the
early start of the narcotics investigation.
He left the position disappointed and angry about the lack of understanding for
� the enormity of the problem.
It was a victory for his non-compromising view on the alarming criminality when _
the then detective inspector, Chr Alsnas-Andersen and the new police inspector, ~ Paul Eefsen, had him appointed in 1975 as the first chief of the independent
= narcotics department. Since then he has with his never-ending energy and often
sparkling temper--the French origin and the artist's blood cannot be hidden--led
an unrelenting wdr against Danish and international drug gangsters with the help _
of the insufficient resources and a hard-working, interested, but undermanned
- staff.
He and his staff can show impressive results when the cases are unfolded in the
courtrooms and the criminals receive long sentences. In spite of this, hashish,
Pakistan pills, heroin, LSD, and cocaine f'Low into the country in what seems
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like an unending stream. In this case, the words which sprang from a completely
different national context, about when the old are falling, new ones wil'L spring
up, etc, become really true.
In Gauguin's place, his deputy, detective inspector Bent Ejlerskov Petersen,
will probably now lead the figh-t against a criminal monster which can be
characterized as a national tragedy. He can safely continue the fight in the
same snirit that he has seen since he started working for Gauguin on 1 November.
For it is neither Gauguin's, nor his hard-working employees' fault that the drug
problen; has been allnwed to develop so catastrophically. That is due to 15 years
of lack af understanding among the top leadership in the police department, the
prosecution, the judicial system, and the changing justice minister, interior
minister and social minister, who all failed to see the necessity for a completely
different, consistent and coordinated effort than what we so far had been willing
_ to support. An effort which will save the drug addict--preferably prevent him/her
fram becoming a drug addict--and prevent gangsters at all levels from spreading
- their destroying poison. Gauguin has again and again talked and written about
the alarming extent of the drug criminality and its resulting crimes.
Gauguin and other policemen are among those whom the society can thank for the
fact that maybe now we are finally beginning to understand the extent of the
drug-related crimes which are beir- committed and what nust be done to prevent
these crimes or, at least a11eT:iate the victims' suffering.
Gauguin, who was born a French citizen in South America and who is the grandson -
of "the real Gauguin," the Frer.ch painter with the first name, Paul; became a
- Danish citizen ir.1940--the same year he joined the police force after having _
- participated in the Finnish winter war. He had at that time studied art in
England and France, but gave up trying to live on his arti.stic talents. He is
- looking forward to nursing those talents as a retiree. There are so mar.y things
he watits to draw and paint that he will probably never be bored. He also wants
time �or long travels and time to read a lot and to take care of his yard. And
by the way, he is looking for an idyllic house in the Ringsted area. -
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DENMARK
DETAILS OF BANGKOK-COPENHAGEN HEROIN ROUTE REVEALED
Copenhagen BERLINGSKE TIDENDE in Danish 11 Mar 81 p 2
[Article by Ej.chner-Larsen]
[Text] The almost scheduled traffic on the heroin route from Bangkok to
Copenhagen was closely examined in the extensive narcotics case which is now _
pending at the jury court at Easter Landsret. The hearings are neing complicated
- to a great extent by the interpretation, which is a normal link in the hearing
of the case, but to a still greater extent by the fact that people from the Orient
have an obvious dislike for giving brief answers to the questions they are asked. _
Much of the time yesterday was spent repeating answers already given. _
In connection with the charge of having smuggled an unknown quantity of heroin,
the Filipino, Filipe Cagara said regarding his acquaintance with the co-defendant,
Udorn Seilegtim, that he had met him the first time in March 1979 in the _
restaurant "Canton," where Cagara was to be introduced to "The Old Man," the
Thai-Chinese Prasert Plyatapkin who, according to the testimony, seems to have
occupied a"big brother" position in the league. It was Udorn who at that occasion
served The Old Man, and it was not until much later that Cagara became aware of
the fact that Udorn was involved in the heroin trafficking.
Valuable Diamond
Udorn has been in Denmark since 1970. He came from Thailand after a restaurant
which he ox+med there was destroyed during a flood. In Copenhagen he was _
employed by his uncle who owned the restaurant "Canton," and he has been working
there tuitil his arrest. In connection with a visit to his mother's in China
sometime in July of 1979, he met The Old Man. The Old Man became involved in a .
complicated transaction involving a valuable diamond which Udorn had gotten to
~ sell on commission for a man who had come to him at the hotel. He has previously _
- explained to the police that the diamond was part of a heroin transaction, but
_ yesterday he declared that that was a misunderstanding. -
- Came to Borrow--Became Courier
In the fall of 1979, the drug traffic to Bangkok was very active. Cagara has
been charged in three indictments for having assisted in smuggll_ng 10 pounds of
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heroin into the country, and for having tried to procure another 20 pounds.
Cagara explained that he was constantly pressured by The Old Man and the other
Chinese, Sakda Prapakranant, who wanted to be indemnified after the theft of
the heroin on the train. Through his assistance in smuggling heroin through the
airport in :Castrup, he would "repay" Kr. 290,000--the loss which The Old Man
and Sakda Prapakranant had suffered.
In September of 1979, Sakda and a man by the name of Sompong Kiat Thammaratana
looked him up at his residence at Istedgade 97. They wanted Caga.ra to once
again send his daughter, Luzuiminda, to Bangkok as courier. This had been
suggested by The Old Man who had paid her for her last, unsuccessful trip.
- Cagara refused, and instead it became Rosaline Bautiste, who happened to come to
the apartment to borrow money just when Sakda was there. In the end, Rosita,
a countryman whom he had known since 1974, accepted. Her later sentence of 6
years imprisonment is being appealed at Easter Landsret. Cagara had gotten
money for her plane ticker from Sompong.
_ Was to Appear in Court
At the time, Cagara himself was about to travel to Manila, and it was arranged in
such a way ttiat Rosita was to travel via M'anila whereafter Cagara would accompany
her to Bangkok and introduce her to The Old Man whom she did not know. As
agreed with Sakda, she was to deliver the heroin to Cagara in the transit hall
in Kastrup whereafter he was to carry it out.
Un 25 September 1979 they were unsuccessful. Soffipong had not been able to get
the stuff, and she was forced to return home. She was scheduled to appear at
Copenhagen's City Court on 26 September.
On 17 October, Cagara assisted in getting 10 pounds of hashish through ~
= customs. She was to have received 40,000 kroner for her assistance, but got
only 20,000 kroner which he, Cagaras, picked up for her from The Old Man at his
hote.l in Copenhagen. Finally, a shipment on 13 November 1979 failed. There was
no heroin on the market in Bangkok, Sompong said.
The case continues today wi.*_h the evi3ence being produced.
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DENMARK
TWU ASIANS SENTENCED IN LA.RGE HEROIN-SMUGGLING CASE
Copenhagen BERLINGSKE TIDENDE in Danish 17 Mar 81 p 2
[Article by Ib Eichner-Larsen]
[Text] The judges and the jury at the jury court which has heard the large
heroin-smuggling case, saw no reason to show any form of leniency when it read
the sentence last night to the three foreigners involved.
The Filipino, Filipe Cagara, who had a key position in the case, though he could
not be described as either the head man or the organizer in the smuggling of
heroin, was sentenced to 9 years in prison. He was charged, as were the rest of
them, in accordance with the strict narcotics law which warrants punishment of
up to 10 years imprisonment. ,
The Thai, Udorn Seilegtim and the Singapore Chinese, Ann Juan Leo each got 8
_ years.
All Chree requested respite with regard to appealing the sentence to Hojesteret.
It was clear that the severe sentence had an effect on Cagara and Leo. Udorn
Seilegtim *ook it more lightly.
Considering the extent of the case, the 12 jurors, eight women and four men,
did not take long in reaching a verdict concerning the question of guilt for
the people involved. They were to answer 21 questions, and they had come to a
decision on those questiens at 15:35, after two and one-half hours of voting.
- Before the voting they had listened to Judge i.rik M. Mikkelsen's charge which
lasted almost 2 hours.
The jury answered "guilty" to 17 of the 20 questions connected with the charge
- and answered no to a supplemental question brought up at the request of Filipe
Cagaras' appointed counsel for the defense, lawyer Erik Ninn Hansen. It was a
- question of reducing the sentence because Cagara, by his attachment to another
or by threat of considerable damage, had been forced to commit the crime.
The three questions of guilt which were answered with a"no " all concerned
. attesipts to smuggle heroin. One of the questions co ncerned Cagara, the other
two concerned Udorn Seilegtim.
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- DENMARK
BRIEFS
MOST AGAINST COMPULSORY TREATMENT--Seen irom the point of view that drug abuse
is becoming a greater and greater society problem, the Folketing is demanding a
more effective fight against drug addiction among young people. They may also
want a treatment reform, but the majority is not in favor of the proposal by the
Center Democrats (with Birgith Mogensen as its spokesman) regarding the establish-
ment of compulsory methadone treatment of serious Lddicts. The Interior Minister
Henning Rasmussen, however, pointed out at the Folketing yesterday that the
effort against drug addiction first and foremost must be concentrated in the
_ area of prevention. The Center Democratic proposal got Karen Thuroe-Hansen's
full support on behalf of the Conservative Party, whereas the other parties had
major or minor objections. [Text] [Copenhagen BERLINGSKE TIDENDE in Danish
12 Mar 81 p 6] 9667
HUGE HASHISH CACHE FOUND--About 100 million kroner worth of hashish has been
- seized by the West German police in Hamburg. According to F'LENSBORG AVIS, two
policemen became suspicious of a van which drove through Wilhelmsburg with a big
- overload. The two drivers said that they did not have the key to the car's
luggage compartment, and when the police later got the luggage compartment open,
they disco vered 2 and 1/2 tons of hashish of the sort called "green Turk."
Certain information indicated that the hashish was meant for the Scandinavian
market; however, yesterday the Danish narcotics police had not yet been contacted
by their German collegues. Interpol in Copenhagen had also gottPii no telegrams
regarding the seizure of the valuable cargo. Both drivers, 26 and 28 years old,
explained to the police that they thought they were transportitig household
effects, and the police believe that the backers must be sought somewhere else.
[Text] [Copenhagen BERLINGSKE TIDEN'ilE in Danish 14 Mar 81 p 91 9667
SENTENCES IN HEROIN-SMUGGLING CASE--Yesterday, the criminal police in several.
- large cities in Jutland arrested 10 people for extensive dealings with hard drugs.
The action is an exteasion of earlier arrests of Turkish heroin dealers in
January of whom the head man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. The last
ten arrests were of the Danish middlemen. It is the criminal police in Herning
who, together with the Rigspolice Chief's Travel Department has headed the main
investigation af the case. [Text] [Copenhagen BERLINGSKE TIDENDE in Danish
- 13 Mar 81 p 2] 9667
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FEDERAL tZEPUBLIC OF GERMANY
BRIEFS
HASHISH SEIZED--Hamb urg, 11 Mar (DPA)--Hamburg police have made their biggest
ca tch in the his tory of Federal German drug inves tigations. While checking
an overloaded delive.r.y truck last night, the police found 50 hundredweighv.
_ of hashish. The hashish, dcccrding to the chief of the Hamburg Drug Depaxt-
men t, Wolf Plefka, is worth about DM10 million on the black market. It waa
- discovered in the back of a rented delivery truck which was stopped in the
Wilhelmsburg district, The driver and passenger of the van, a 26-year-old
and a 28-year-old Berliner, were arrested. [Hamb urg DPA in German 1230 GMT
11 Mar 81 LD]
CSO: 5300/2297
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FRANCE
L
EXPANDING HARD DRUG MARECET DEVELOPMENTS DESCRIBED
Paris LE POINT in French 23 Mar 81 pp 96-97
_ [Article by Jean-Marie Pontaut: "The Ants Are Taking Wer"]
[Text] The hard drug market is expanding rapidly. Between Paris
and Bar.gkok there is now a constant to-and-fro movement of small-
time vagrants, s;nall-scale wholesalers of heroin.
~ 1'he "stup" ;:olice (narcotics brigade) call these "new look" traffickers of hard drugs
"big ants," Being neither "expediters" nor couriers for largQ international networks
- nor sr.iall-time narcotics middlemen, these newcomers to the drug market are mostJ_y
sma].1 hooligans who operate on their own and, not hesitating to take risks, personally
- obtain their supplies from the actual production sources.
Their small-scale traffic i..s increasingly taking on the aspect of a wholesale oper-
ar_ion and has been developing for several years, supplying heroin to the entire Paris
area--especi_a~ly t}ie suburbs--as well ss part of the provinces. And the market is
expanding full-force: in 1980, specialists of the Paris "stup" brigade confiscated
" 31.7 kg of heroin compared with 3.8 kg in 1978--an increase of nearly 600 percent!
T'he number of persons questioned has doubled in 1 year.
This skyrocketing of hard drugs has been used by the Communist party as a mainstay
to denounce police laxity and government sluggishness. The method is bad, for an
- increase in individual connections gives the polic:e more trouble than organized gangs;
even though many are arresr_ed, "ants," small or large, pass through the net without -
difficulty. And, in France, breaKing up organized international "connections" such
_ as the multinationals, h.as not in the least stopped drug trafficking; its effect has -
been ta promote the appearancP of new types of smugglers.
a
In 1972, the police and cusi:oms officials discovered 425 kg of heroin in the holds
oF the "Caprice des temps"; the ship had been challenged at sea and subsequcntly
escorted to Marseille's old port. This ended the French Connection and the nimble-
_ fingered Marseille cheuiists who were concocting exceptionally pure heroin for the
_ United States, They are adorning the Ministry of Interior with flags and falling
asleep pretty quickly on their poppies.
~ Nc,vertheless, the French clientele is con*_inuing to grow. And it demands increasing
yuantities of poison. Therefore, the international "big wheels" have made Amsterdam
tne world drug capital and the turntable of the heroin traffic serving Europe. In
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turii, the producing cou.LLries, which have suffered from the closing of the French
"tabs," have begun to manufacture their own "dope." They began with a coarse heroin,
the kind specialsits call the No 3, brown and granular; then came the No 4, as pure
and white as that which came from Marseille. This development was favored by the
political disorders of certain areas--Thailand, Bengal, lran and Lebanon--whiCh en-
abled local gangs to put their hands on poppy production and set up processing _lab-
oratories on the spot.
However, urged by the German and French authorities, the Netherlanders stepped up
the fight against drug traffickers. Then, in about 1977, drug addicts, having dif-
ficulty obtaining narcotics in Europe, left to purchase heroin on the spot: first,
in Bangkok or Chia.ng Mai, Thailand, and then, a year later, in Lebanon or Pakis tan.
In the beginning, they brought back small quantities--enough doses for their own
consumption plus a few grams to pay for their trip.
Gradually, the substantial profits which resulted from that traffic tempted nonad-
dicts,a small group of thieves lured by the poteatial earnings: a gram of heroin
, purchased in Thailand for 60 francs and resold in France for 800 francs. However,
since, in reality, an equivalent amount of lactose has been added to the heroin, the
- amount of the sale actually comes to 1,600 francs. This translates into 1.6 million
francs per kg.
But the risk is proportional to the benefits: 10 to 20 years of imprisonment.
This "quality-risk" relationship was considered too high by the big smugglers. They
turned their attention to other activities or else departed to operate in coLntries
- which were lesG strict. Many entered the service of the mafia which had taken up
the torch ot the French Connection. In 1 Year, six morphine processing laboratories
were discovered in Italy: in Palermo, San Remo and Milan. Each was directed by
French technical advisers. In Milan the police even arrested the dean of Marsei'-le
vL-.gabonds, Jean Jehan, 82, nicknamed "le pepe de la schnouff." He had been pinpointed
as a drug trafficker since 1939. These Italian laboratories are working for the
American market as did the French laboratories not long ago.
� Thus, in the realm of drugs in France, the )anner of major gangsterism was pi_cked
_ up by a spontaneous generation of minitraffickers. These small-time hooligans attempt
; to smuggle trom 200 to 500 grams of heroin enclosed in condoms and hidden i_n wh at
customs officials modestly call "tlie natural cavities." Each month a dozen such
smugglers are arrested at the borders. But, as a source of great worry to the police,
the quantities of drugs seized are continuing to increase, as borne out by the recent
Vitry-sur-Seine affair.
Last February, the narcotics squad made a raid in Montreuil at the home of Jean Lelsch,
30 years of age, a smalltime drug addict and cocaine retailer. During the search,
two young fellows knocked at the door. One of them, Rachid Ail, 25 years old, had
40 grams of heroin i:L his possession. The police then rushed to Vitry-sur-Seine, his
place of residence. While they were fighting at thP door with Ali's mother and three
sisters who were blocking the entrance, his brother, Abdel Khader, 23, threw a package
out the window and fled. 'Ehe package contained 1.8 of pur,, heroin.
T'his event, which occurred after the violent antidrug campaign launched by the com-
munists in Montigny-les-Cormeilles, caused a lot of talk. But, disguised by poelmics,
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- the main point went unnoticed: the two brothers, siaall-time suburban hooligans, had _
_ finally succeeded, after three trips to Bangkok in bringing back quantities of nar-
cotics on the level :f big traffickers. The 2 kg oi heroin, purchased at a price
of 120,000 francs, was to bring them 3 million francs. Their channel of distribution
was short: two "VRP's," each of which supplied about 30 addicts.
Such examples are plentiful. A network of small-time heroin retailers was broken up
in Nice in February; for 2 years, the gang, composed of about 10 youths, sold 500
does of "snow" each week, This is the third network of this type discovered on the
Riviera within aperi.od of 3 months.
Another technique is illustrated by the following: last October at the Brussels -
airport, customs officials arrested eight traffickers arriving from Bangkok; they
had divided 25 packets of heroin, each weighing 30 grams, and had swallowed them.
Upon arrival, these smugglers--all have strong stomachs--were x-rayed, and this re-
vealed the drug. The trip to Thailand entices not only long-haired deviates. After 3 months of iri-
vestigation, the police succeeded in arresting Marc Counil, a 54-year-old reputable "
businessman. This former resistance fighter, who resembles a cavalry officer more
than an adherent oF "flower power," was using his Legicn of Honor status to cross
frontiers without difficulty. In five trips to Bangkok via Brussels, he had brought
_ 3.5 kg of her.oin. He did this to fulfill his long-cherished dream: to becotne the
owner of a cabaret called Elysee Montmartre, in Pigalle, and transform it into a
sumptuous nightclub. His two Parisian agents werc questioned simultaneously with
him. They were reselling the merchandise to small-time junkies (drug addict m.iddle-
men) who were openly "pushing" drugs in Belleville, at [the Placede la] Republique,
in the major thoroughfares or in Rue du Faubourg-Montmartre. The police, who know
this cocaine terrain by heart, are reluctant to act: the side streets chosen by the
traffickers hardly lend themselves to hiding places, and the small-time pushers have
clever ways of evading the law. In fact, since 1971, drug addicts are no longer =
- subject to imprisonment; they are now given treatmen*. The middlemen, wha have
- learned their lesson, are now pretending to be drug addi.cts and never have more than
one dose--1 gram--in their possession. However, their stock is close at hand, con-
cealed in a wide variety of places: in the hub caps of parked automobiles, in the
recesses of adjoining walls, behind the access panels on street lamps, and the like.
One of the middlemen, questioned on 2 March in Famponneau Street, had hidden his
- stock--30 grams of heroin--in the shower head of an unused bathroom in r;s hotel.
The eff.,=cts of this drug traffic are beginning to be felt. For 2 years, the poli.ce
have been aware that an increasing number of deviates have been taking to drugs and
coimnitting "muggings" or thefts to pay for their 'narcotics. Perhaps this is the
beginning of a shift to violence American-style.
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SWEDCN
GOVERNMF-.NT, BACKE[1 BY PUBLIC, READIES FORCED-TREATNENT LAW
Copanhagen BERLIN:;SKE TIDENDE in Danish 17 P4ar 81 pt II p 2
[Article by Tom floyem]
[Text] At the same time that the municipality of Copenhagen
is discussing forced treatment, a bill is being prepared in
Sweden that will open the way for forced treatment in the
early phase.
- Shall narcotics addicts be treated by force? The question has been raised in the
municipal government of Copenhagen and by the mass movement against hard drugs.
But how does forced treatment fit in with the essential 1;2inciple of personal
freeaom?
Reference has been made to Sweden, and it is true that there are institutions in
that neighboring country where drug abusers are forced to stay. Ch2ee they %zaVe
Thus it is after a court decree or after the narcot;cs addicts have "vol-
- untarily" signed a "contract."
In Copenliagen alone 50 million kroner is beijig spent today on dj�ug abusers. Does
_ it help?
,4 long series of et}iical problcros are involved in the matter. The Hassela collec-
tive ici Sweden is a forced-treatment institution. After the cure the abusers are
- sent oii to a workers' coLlege. For it is believed that most drug abusers are chi.l-
circn of working-class families, and that a political consciousness is a part of
the solutioii. Thc treatment must get so close to the individual's life that he
- loses the lesire to run away. For that reason they must be held. It is "compul-
sion to freedom from drugs,says the H assela collective, which is being used as an
aroument in the Danish debate. Legally, drug abusers cannot be treated by force
in Sweden today. It looks, however, as though it would be a fact as of 1 January
1942. A bill has been presented, and it appears likely to get the Support of all
Swedish political parties. Drug abusers can then be detained and within a eveek
brought before a magistrate, whc, can sentence them to up to 4 months' compulsory
treatment. The new law is called LVtd (Law on Confinement of Addicts in Cercain
Cases). Former minister Gertrud Sigurdsson (Social Democrat) is expressing the
view of r_he majority ..hen she says: "Confinement in itself does not help, but ad-
dicts are in a situation where they themselves cannot judge. Afterwards they will
- thank us."
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~ Criticism
'1'l1e bill has encountered great resistance, however. One of the sharpest critics
is John Gornebrand, wiio has for many years been head of social services in
Simrishamn, and who has very often engaged in the Swedish debate, in which onpo-
_ sition to the use of force against the individual's f'reedom is very marked.
- BE:ItI.INGSi:E TIDENDF: has talked with the social services chief, who says: The
bill is a hasty piece of work with relics of the old thinking that was behind the
_ temperance movement. The most sensational thing about it is that the county
councils are taking over the social service offices' investigative functions and
that the police can det.ain alcoholics and other addicts for a long time without
_ a court order (all drug abusers are lumped together in the new law). There is no
effort to define what is to be understood by the term abuse, and that is danger-
ous in a country where tltere is a tradition for a very low tolerance threshold.
- 'Che bureaticracy will grow now that the politicians are getting involved directly
instead of the officials in the social services system, who know the drug abusers
in advance.
"'I'he power of the police will increase enormously. Today drug abusers can be ar-
rested, but the very next day the person concerned is brought before the court.
Now that is being extended to a week. How can that be reconciled with the pro-
tection of the la:v?
Itesources
"The treatment itself, on the other hand, wi11 be the same as now. There is nice
talk that 'the treatment will begin at a hospital.' In practice that means that
the bottleneck is the resources of the hospitals. Ne know already that they are
absolutely inadequate for this gigantic task. It is already causing problems
Chat alcoholism and its side effects are taking up a greater and greater part of
= the total resources. In t}le comments on the bill it is stated that 'to a remark-
able degree there is a lack of scientific materials for evaluation of the value
of forced treatment in different situations.'
"That is either a political lie or an impermissible obliviousness. As early as
1965 thorough rePorts and researches had shown that forced treatlaent showed such
poor results that the very concept of treatment was losing its meaning. On the
other hand, various kinds of temperance movements have shown clearly in practice
how one can overrome the most serious cases oneself. Sorething comnarable can
- be anplied to drLig abusers. But instead of encouraging such private initiatives,
yoii are making the bureaucr-icy grow when the individual is brought by force to
tlle iiew concenti-ation camp. These are strong and provocative words, but they ex-
press t}ie real.ity behind the bill. The abnormal, the drug abusers, are interiied,
so that we are r i cl of them.
"This is sloppy legislation, W}11Ci1 is due to pursuit of popularity, and in which
thorough, obiective studies and reports are set aside."
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TURKEY
MAJ012 OPERATION BREAKS HEROIN RING
-q Istanbul MILLIYET tn Turkish 30 Mar 81 p 7
[Article by Erhan Akyi ldiz and Selahattin Gokhan]
L1'ext] As a result of a successful operation carried out on 24 March 1981
in the Merter district of Istanbult Narcotics Department detectives seized
4 kilograms oE heroin that was delivered from Hakkari and that is valued at
30 million liras on the toreign market and arrested eight members of a ring
that planned to sell the heroin on the Istanbul market.
_ Narcotics Depar.*_ment detectives, who began preparations 20 days ago for the
undertaking termed the "Octopus Operation.911 disguised themselves as a fish-
erman, truck driver, and bread roll street vendor at various times and pur-
sued, step by step= the "White Poison Ringv" which is headed by Lice native
Haci Osman Duz. This covzrt tag game 14sting 20 days was punctuated by the
_ successful 24 March 1981 operation. Members of the ringg beginning with
_ the leader Duz from Lice and including his Eripnds Vahdettin Simsek, Yahya
Sasmaz, and Fuat Sasmaz, could not escape capture as they were trapped in
their Volkswagen automobile in w;lich they had hidden 4 kilograms of he;:oin
in a cavity of the engine. A short time before this operation was corn-
_ oleted, another polic e team apprehended driver Omer Alkan, who brought the
heroin to Istanbui from Hakkari, and Afif Simsek, who served as watchman
_ at the site in Istanbul where the narcotics that were delivered were hidden.
- 'rhe onset of this successful enterprise, which ended with the seizure of
the eis ;t-member ring and 4 kilograms of heroing took place at the end of
February.
Duzs chief of the heroin ring that was broken up,, is a heavy user of heroin
as well as a heroin dealer. Narcotics Department detectivesp who ha�re long
been aware t,tise facts about Duzp had been keeping the Lice native under
surveillancp for an extended period cf time.
The detectives cioted that Duz left the Tura Hotel located in Aksaray, at
- which he has been living continuously, frequently at the beginning of
March; that he went to the Central Reading Room in Merter; and that he es-
tablished contact with various persons. They decided to tail Duz constant-
ly.
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Once this decision was reached, a detective from the Narcotics Department
and a policewoman posed as husband and wife and taok up residence at the
T'ura Hotel in Aksaray. Lice native Duz was, henceforth, under surveillance
step by step, hour to hour, minute to minute.
With Duz under constant observation, the existence of a"white p o i son" ring
began to be perceived. Duz, from Liceg unaware that he was being followed
by detectives, met frequently with Vahdettin Simsek and Yahya Sasmaz during
this period. The name of the latter is not unknown to police. Osman
Sasmaz, the older brother of Yahya Sasmazp was caught and arrested when
selling heroin in Germany a while ago. These persons who met with Duz went
oFten to and from the Turkish Sportswriters Association faciliti es that are
undergoing renovation in Taslik. Narcotics Department officials, whog
after making this observationg benefited from the work being don e at the
Taslik facilities by placing a detective in the position of driver of a
dump truck at the association facilities. Therefore, it became p o ssible to
follow the ring's activities on the sportswriters' property. The detective
disguised as a driver at the facilities determined that a person b y the
- name of Alkan hid heroin, after its arrival f;rom Hakkari, in the Turkish
- Sportswriters Association facilities and that Vahdettin Simsek's brother,
Afif Simsek, a lycee graduate preparing to enter the university, was left
to wazch over the contraband goods concealed on the property.
Alkan is a former drug dealer. The drugs had been taken to the Guray Hotel
in Sirkeci a�ter beirg brought to Istanbul from Hakkari. Alkan, like Lice
native Duz, was also placed under round-the-clock surveillance.
Operation Preparations
Through the intense detective work over 20 dayst the important meii in the
ring were identiEied, and preparations began for the "final action.V In
order to strike tYLe "final blow," Narcotics Department detectiv3s wai!:ed
until the drugs were taken out of the Sportswriters Association f aciLiLies.
The day that all employees of the Narcotics Departmer.t from the p olice to
the director awaited finally arrived.
= Oii 24 March, Lice native Duz went alone to the Central Reading Room in
Merter and sat down at a table. Looking frequently at his watch, his agi-
tation made it apparent that he was expecting someone. Within a short time,
_ ring inembers Vahdettin Simseko Yahya Sasmaz, a:,d Fuat Sasmaz arrived at t'le
C:entral Reading koom and sat down at Duzl table. These persons, aEter
sesting themsp-lves at the tahle, sipged tea while speaking in whi spers.
. Tliey were unaware that the man in fisherman's clothing 25-30 meters away and
t.he yoitth quietly reading a newspaper in the corner were policemen. After
- talkitig Lor awhile, they left, walked to a honey-colored Volkswag en belong-
in; to F'azil Cetin that was parked 100 meters away,0 and got in.
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When the Volkswagen bearing license plate No 34 'L11 495 started ung a navy
blue Ftenault with no license plates came out of nowheres headed straight
as an arrow lor the Volkswagen, and blocked its path. Detectives leaped
out of the Renault with guns drawng and there was no escape for the four
inembers of the ring. The four heroin dealers, astonished by what was hap-
peningg looked at one another and thens fearful of the guns aimed at them,
raised their arms into the air and rested their faces on the car. They
were frisked quickly and rendered helpless.
The police had completed 20 day
Apprehended were four members o
grams ot heroin they had hidden
which they were captured. Also
driver who brought the drugs co
man who served as watchman, and
in ilus.
and nights of work with total success.
the ring including its leader and 4 kilo-
in a cavity of the engine of the car in
arrested by another police team were the
Istanbulp the owner of the automobileg the
another person who had hidden the narcotics
Following the arrest of the members of the white poison ring, composed of
persons wlio are all trom the administrative district of 1,ice in Diyarbakir,
Narcotics Department officials began an intensive investigation.
As a result, it was determined that the 4 kilograms of heroin that were
confiscated had been brought to the Yuksekova adminisr_rative district of
Hakkari at the end of I'ebruary by an Iranian whose identity is still un-
known and that the heroin was turned over to a man named Ismail, who runs
a club in Yuksekova. A truck driver by the name of Alkan received the
drugs from Ismail, took them to Mus, and gave them to Haci Balyecio who hid
them for a period of time. Alkan picked up the heroin from Balyecis took
it to Istanbul, and then made contact with the ring's leaderp Duz.
During the investigation ot the case, narcotics polic.e attempted to deter-
iiiine the heroin ring's relationship with the Sportswriters Association fa-
cilities in Taslik. As a result of the questioning of the suspectsg it
was establist,ed that there is absolutely no connection between the offi-
cials and merabers of the Sportswriters Association and the hcroin smuggling
incident.
It was learned that the operation of the Sportswriters Association facili-
ties had been contracted a stlort [ime previously to Nizarnettin Erez. In
statements given to police, suspects Vahdettin Simsek ana Yahya Sasmaz said
that they were going to go into partnership with Erez to run the facilities
soon.
_ The worlc conducted for ddys by the Istanbul Narcotics Department directorg
commander, and police resulted in a positive conclusion, and a ring that
planned to place dangerous drugs brought in from Iran on the Istanbul mar-
A Icet was exposed. In this wayf through the successful operation, heroin
that would poison hundreds of youths was seized before it could reach the
hands of buyers. Narcotics police, who are buttling drug dealers and users
as part of international agreements, have added another success to their
positive accomplishments.
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TURKEY
BRIEFS
HEROIN SEIZED IN IZMIR--A narcotics smuggling network has been uncovered in
Izmir. T'h e police seized 6 kilos of pure heroin at a foreign market value of
about 200 million Turkish liras and a large amount of foreign currency.
Eleven pexsons were arrested, including a retired policeman and a policeman.
[Ankara Domestic Service in Turkish 1600 GMT 11 Apr 81 TA]
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UNITEU KINGDOM
HEROIN SMIJGGLER SENTENCED TO TEN YEARS; DEPORTATION RECONMENDED
London THE DAILY TELEGI.APH in English 3 Apr 81 p 12
['i'ext] A Customs officer who noticed a strong smell of glue when he examined two
suitcases awaiting loading at Heathrow was responsible for the discovery of heroin
worth inore than 1 million pounds.
The officer, Mr Peter Lawley, realised that false sides had been put into the
cases, bound for the United States from Iran.
Yesterday, the courier, Kouros Soltani, 33, was convicted at Reading Crown Court
of smuggling 3,713 kilos of heroin into Britain.
He caas jailed for 10 years with a recommendation for deportation.
Soltani, who owned the cases, was no ordinary courier. He claimed to be the
- great grandson uf Ahmed, Shah of Persia deposed in 1921 by Reza Khan, father of
the last Shah. I
tte also was the top heroin supplier on the United States West Coast and is t:hought
- to be one of the top half dozen drug dealers in the country.
Luxury Home
lie llad a 250,000-poun3 sterling luxury home in Danville, Cali_`ornia wit:i its own
swimming pool, automatic watering system and electronically operated gates watched
over by an armed security guard. But when questioned at Heathrow, he claimed he _
liad little money.
- Despite being a qualified engineer, he claimed he made his money as a professional
ganbler and trafficking in currency between Iran and America. _
One of yesterday's court case witnesses was Gary Dimatteo, 28, who was flown to
13ritain sec:retly by the American Drug Enforcement Agency. He said he had been -
indictel by a Grand Jury on drugs offences, but granted immunity from prosecu-
tion to testify against Soltani and other dealers.
Dimatteo, introduced to Soltani by another Iranian, said: "At first, I'd get -
lbout 10 grams fr.om him every three days. I bought it f or 200 dollars and sold
it for 300. By the middle of 1979, I was buying 10y000 dollars worth a w2ek."
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50, OUO Pounds' I3a i 1
That figure rose to a maximum af 150,000 dollars-worth a week--about 67,000 pounds
sterling. In 15 months, he said he bought 50 oz of heroin from Soltani for `
ab out 700,000 dollars, selling it for "close to a million." ~
Even arrest in London did not stop Soltani because he was bailed for 50,000 pounds
and moved to an address in Salisbury, Wiltshire, where, Dimatteo alleged, he _
carried on operations.
In the witness box, Soltani told the jury: "I have no idea how the heroin got in
my suitcases. I have no idea if I was framed, but that is a possibility."
Passing sentence, Judge Christopher Lea told Sol.tani: "Everyone must know or
h ave some idea of the tragedy, degradation and even death that can result from =
this most wicked drug. And those who traffick i-n it for profit must receive
s ubstantial prison sentences."
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UNITED KINGDOM
DRUGS, WEAPONS SEIZED IN DRUGS RAIDS
London THE DAILY TELEGRAPH in English 13 Mar 81 p 21
[Article by T. A. Sandrock]
[ Te xt ]
p OLICE seized �250,000, heroin, cannabis,
- cocaine and firearms in raids in London,
~ Kent, Sussex and Gor:?wall yesterday.
- I.ast night 34 people were being held. The raids,
_ which started'at 6 a.m., were conti�nued throughout the
- day, and further arrests are *
expected. '
The raids were co-ordinated
- for maximum surprise with
' the groups involved actino
with warrants obtained under
_ the Dangerous Drugs Act.
Sussex Regionai Crkne Squad
afficers have beea carrying out
- inquiries iato a drug distribu-
tion r.ng over several months.
Officers working under cover
had at times kept surveillance
on suspects or their premises
for up to eigh2 weeks at a tyme.
About two weeks ago, infor- '
matinn was obtained indicating
that another drugs' distribution
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operation was planned aad, as
a result, yesterday's raids were
mounted.
100 police invo2ved
Niore than 100 police were
involved ia the raids. The Scat-
iand Yard and provincialforces
drugs' squads assisted by mem-
bers of the Yard's Special
Patrol Group, took part.
Results of the operation
were bein$ caordinated at the
Brig6ton office of No. 6
Regional Crime Squad which
covers the Keut, Sussax and
Surrey areas.
Some of those detained were
last night bailed to return to
the polica station at a later
date. Others are expected to
be charged withia the next 24
hours and probably ap~pear in
court at Tonbridge, Keat,
to[norrow.
The amounts of drugs seized
have not yet beea disclosed.
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UNITED KINGDOM
BRIEFS
DRUGS SEIZED--Ten people were being questioned at Paddington police station
yesterday af ter police seized cocaine and cannabis with a street value of 25,000
pounds during raids on premises in I,ondon. [Text] [London THE DAILY TELEGRAPH in
~ English 16 Mar 81 p 26]
DRUG RING SMASY.ED--Po lice raids in Essex and the Gatwick area are be lieved to
have smashed a major drugs smuggling ring bringing in cannabis from North Africa.
Six people are being questioned. As a result of weekend raids cannabis worth
about 100,000 pounds has been seized. [Text] [London THE DAILY TELEGRAPH in
English 24 Mar 81 p 1]
HEROIN SEIZURE--A Special Patrol Group team seized 5 1/2 lb of heroin valued at
15,000 pounds during raids on two houses in the Finsbury Park area during the
weekend. They also took possession of a shotgun, two machetes and an axe. Tao
officers were injured in fighting at one of the places raided. The following men
were charged: Ailbhe Slevin, 24, of Tollington Park., possession of heroin;
 Camal Kubilay, 28, Ferry Road, Wood Green, dishonestly handling stolen proper ty;
John Bond, 23, Tollington Park, possession of heroin; and William Johnston, 40,
of Stoness S treet, Finsbury Park, dishonestly handling and assault on police.
- They will appear in court today. [Text] [London THE DAILY TELEGRAPH in English
6Apr81p 12]
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