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NARCOT~CS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
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WORLDWIDE REPORT
NARCOT I CS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
(FOUO 34/80 )
CONTENTS ~
as ia.
~ AUSTRALIA
Briefs
Australian Mari juana Bust 1
- BURMA
Editorial Examines Campaigus Against Drugs
(Editorial; THE WORKING PEOPLE' S DA,ILY,
23 Jul 80) 2
Briefs
Trial of Heroin Traffi cker 4
Seizure of Opium 4
Jail Term for Opium Trafficker 4
Opium Seizure 4
Heroin Seizure 4
Packages of Heroin Sei z ed 4
Moulmein Heroin Seizure 5
Seizure of Heroin 5
Jail Term for Heroin User 5
Seizure of Raw Opium, Iierol.n ,5
Crackdown on Dealers, Users 6
Court Jails Two Men 6
'Opium King' Freed 6
HONG KONG
Customs Officers Smash Kowloon Heroin Ring
(Walter Cheung; SOUTH CHINE~ MORNI~TG POST,
16 Jul 80) . 7
Opium Worth HK$200,000 Seized a t Port, Airport
(SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, 11 Jul 80) $
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Alert Issued for 'Drug Letters' from Sa.n Diego
(SOUTH CfiINA MORNTNG POST, 10 Jul 80) ......,o..~.. 9
Bill Ma.kes Trafficking in Fake Drugs an Offense
(SOUTH CHINA ~RNING POST, 10 Jul 80) 10
Briefs
Heroin Ring Smashed 11
- Airport Heroin Haul 11
Morphine Pushing Charge 11
Drugs Raid Arrests 11
INDONESIA -
Joint Antina.rcotic Campaign With Australia
(AFP, 5 Aug 80) 12
NEW ZEALAND
Convi.ctions for Heroin Possession, Trafficking Reported
(Various sources, various dates) 13
Thoma.s Arthur Adderley
Brian Christopher Mules
Peter Jen Nigro
Gerard Friel
Gerrard Hathaway
Life Sentence on Heroin Count Reduced to 16 Years
(THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD, 25 Jun 80) 17
Missing Ship's Cargo Linked to Drug Trafficking
(THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD, 15 Jul 80) 18
Government Laborator~~ Improves Drug-Ha.ndling Efficiency
- (THE EVEDTING POST, 12 Jul 80) 19
_ Cannabis Cultivation on North Island Escalating
(THE NEW ZEP,LANU HERALD, 10 Jul 80) 20
Hashish Concentrate on Airliner Beliaved from India
(THE NEW ZEALAND HERAI,D, 7 Jul 80) 21
PAKISTAN _
Largest Opium Seizure in Lahore
(DAWN, 26 Jul 80) 22
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Briefs
Opium Recovered; 2 Held 23 ?
Sangjani Opium Arrest 23
Opium Seizure 23 _
Man Held With Opium 24
Imam of Ma.s j~ d Convicted 24
PHILIPPINES
First Lady Forms Task Force To Fight Drugs -
(PHILIPPINES DAILY EXPRESS, 12 Jul 80) 25
SINGAPORE
Morphine Found in Curry Condiment
(THE MUSLIM, 22 Jul 80) 27 -
CANAI~A
Heroin Flood Feared in Wake of Opium Glut
(THE GLOBE AND MAIL, WEEKEND EDITIONy
19 Jul 80) 28
Drugs Worth $1 Million Seized in Three Raida -
(THE WINASOR STAI~, 21 Jul 80) 30
Seven Charged After Three Drug Raids
(TEIE GLOBE AND MAIL, 21 Jul E30) 31
Major Drug Seizure Off Ha.lifax Called 'Plain Good I,uck'
(THE GLOBE AND MAIL, 11 Jul 80) 32
LSD Cache Seized in Undercover Operation
(THE WIPIDS~JR STAR, 24 Jul 80) 34
Briefs
Marihuana, Ship Impounded 35
EAST EUROPE
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Parents Warned of Youth Drug Abuse Problem
(Editorial Report) 36
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LATIN ArIERICA
BCLIVIA
Briefs
Drug Traffic Estimates 38
BRAZIL
Weapons, M,~rihuana Smuggled from Paraguay Seized
_ (.;ORNAL DQ BRASIL, 3 Jul 80) 39
One Hundred Kilograms of Ma.rihuana Seized in Northern Zone
(0 GLv~.~, 28 Jun 80) 40
Briefs
Councilman Drug Offender 42
COLOMBIA
Large, Modern Cocaine Processing Plant Seized
(Narciso Castro Y.; EL TIEMPO, 31 May 80) 43
Puerto Wilches Drug Ring Ra.ided
(EL ESPECTADOR, 16, 19 Jun 8Q) 46
Large, Modern Laboratory
Seized Trafficker Was Fugitive
Businessman Cleared of Complicity
'Car Snatchers' Trade Cars for Cocaine
(EL TIEMPO, 10 Jun 80) 50
Bogota's 'Vice Corner' Described
(Bernardo Navas Talero; EL TIEMPO, 13 Jun 80) 52
Briefs
Coca, Marihuana Plantations Discovered 56
Three Raids Near Barranquilla 56
ECUADOR
Briefs
Cocaine Labs Discovered 57
Drug Gang Smashed 57
MEXICO
Intensive Antidrug Campaign in Campeche
(EL SOL DE MEXICO, 17 Jun 80) 58
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Policeman Ambushed by Drug Traffickers
(EL SOL DE MEXICO, 31 May 80) 60
Veracruz Police Seize Five Traffickers
(EL SOL DE MEXICO, 31 May 80) . 61
Air Search for Drugs in Oaxaca, Veracruz
(EL SOL DE ?"IE}CICO, 24 May 80) 62
Drug Trafficker Wanted for Murder
(EL BRAVO, 9 Jul 80) 63
Briefs
Pill Traffickers Captured 65
_ Police Ca.ught Selling Marihuana 65
Pills from Abroad Seized 66
Heroin Traffickers Sentenced 66
Ton of Marihuana Seized 66
Vehicle Searches Jam Bridges 67
Police Officer's Relatives Arrested 67
Cocaine, Peruvian 'rrafficker Seized 67
pANAMA ,
Briefs
Cocaine Seized 68
Drug Trafficker's Arrest 68
' Drug Traffickers Arrested 68
PERU
- Briefs
Police Trafficker 69
Cocaine Seized 69
NF,AR EAST AND :QORTH AFRICA
IRAN
Drug Traffic, Use Leads to Arrests, Executioas
(Variuus sov.rces, various dates) 7p
Bani-Sadr Isaues Guidelines
Rounduns Ordered
Thirty Smugglers Arrested
Smugglers Executed
Further Expectations
Khalkhali Statement
Opium Cache Discover
Treatment Center
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New Measures Proposed to Combat Addiction
- (JAVANAN-r EMRUZ, 9 Jun 80) 74
- ISRAEL
Two Held for Massive Sinai Drug Smuggling
(Yoram Bar; JERUSAI.EM POST, 6 Jul 80) 78 "
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
GUINEA-BISSAU
Briefs
Foreign~r~ Expelled 79 -
KENYA
_ Chang'aa Piuhibition Bill Passed
(LIAILY NA.TION, 18 Jul 80) $0
Briefs
Bhang ~n Government Vehicle 81
WEST EURUPE
ITALY
Briefs
Heroin Consumption in Rome 82
Drug Arrests in Naples 82
NETHERLANDS
Police Smash Heroin, Hashish Gangs
(ALGEMEEN NEDERLANDS PERSBUREAU,
4 Jul 80) 83
NORWA.Y
Tromso Police Arrest Four: Gang Sold Hashish, Heroin
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SPAIN
Gang of Traffickers Arrested, 850 Grams of Cocaine Found
(YA, 1 Jun 80) 87
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TURKEY
Briefs
- Narcotics Seized in Istar~bul gg
Heroin Seized ~9
Hashish Discovered 89
Hashish in Istanbul gg
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AUSTRAI.IA
BRIEFS
AUSTRALIAN MARIJUANA BUST--A Sydney magistrate was told today that cannabis
worth a street value of more than $4 mi,llion had been brought ~nto Australia
concealed in a furniture shipment. Three people were before the court
charged with importing and possessing cannabis. (Deran Irw3n), age 35, an -
American; and (Virginia Fitzpatrick), 33, and (Aavid Ferguson), both of
Sydney, were remanded without bail for a fortnight. The court was told
that two containers had arrived at the Botanq Bay terminal from Thailand
last week. (Ferguson) had taken one of the containers to a home in the
Sydney suburb of Mona Vale which police raided. They then arrested the
three people. Police seized Thai cannabis sticks weighing more than 400
kilograms. [TQxt] [Melbourne Overseas Service in English 1130 Q~1T 28
Jul 80J
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AIJRMA
EDITORIAL E:{AMINES CAMPAIGNS AGAINST DRUGS
Rangoon THE WORKING PEOPLE'S I)AILY in English 23 Jul P~ p 5
~Editorial~
( Text ) HE `~drug problem" ~s besctting a
T considerable sectiau of the fiumaa~
populat~oa today and the natioAS of .
~he worla arc up in arms to stamp out th~s
scourge of' humaa degreclatfon. _
Here in Burma, the fight against ths
~drug problem is being carried out in maay
form~-from efforts to el~minate~ narcotic
drugs at their source to ~tment aad
rehabilitation of drugaddictsr
Ta#madaw tro~s, pp~~cemen an~ tl~Q
~v~rking people are wofking in ~un~ert to
- seek out and dostroy narcotic drugs at
their source and ta wipe oqt }~eroi+3- re-
uneries run by insurgent drug-traffick:rs
in regions of djffic~lt ac4ess.S~ch anti-4~rug
campaigns are meeti~ng with consid~srable
success with the result that Burcuq ha,s beon -
credited for its anti-narcotics actioq,
While suppressing poppy cultivation,
the State has not neglected forn~er poppy
growers, They are be3ng oducated on the
- dangers of naraotie dri~gs and being sup�
plied with neeessafry. implomeats, ~hemical
fertilizers and other inputs to enable them
to take up other useful crops.
Couplcd with r,ampaigns ~+a$ed to
stamp oot riarcotic drugs at tl~eir source,
intens~ve and extensive ef~orts are being _
eontinued to ~ffectively deal with the. drug
problem-to detect and eiiminate all _
sources of dn*_g production, transport and
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distribution through various stages from
the jungle ~eroia refineries to the small
time pushers ia the city.
At the same *irr,e, it is interestir,g to note
that the d~.ug addicts themselves are ~ot
forgotten� Steps~ aro being taken to provide
better treatment for the drug addicts nat.
only a2 the Narcotic Drugs Addiction
Treatndent and Research Dopartment at tho
psychiatric Hospital ia Rangoon but also
at Drug Addiction Treatment Centres
opened in various States and Divisions.
In addition to such drug addiction treat-
ment centres opened at the divisional
_ hospitals, it is iatorestin$ to note that
similar centres run by traditional medicine
practitioners have also been opened. A
case in point is the centre for treatment of
drug addicts which opened ia the Hante
_ village monastery compound ia Bhamo
Township on 15 .iuly. -
This is an impo�rtant aspect in thefight
against the drug problem. Stepped up
treatment and rehabilitation measures to
create conducive conditions for focmer
addicts to regain a respectab~e Flace in
society are essential in our,o n-goicg efforts
- to overcome the drug problem.
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BURMA
_ BRIEFS
TRIAL OF HEROIN TRAFFICKER--Moulmein township court No 1 had on 24 June
sentenced Than Win of Moulmein-Tavoy Tada Road to 5 years imprisonment as
he was found guilty under Sectione 6.B and 14.D of the Narcotic Drugs Law.
_ He was caught with a package of heroin by the police of Daingwungwin ward,
Moulmein, on 13 July 1979. [Rangoon MYANMA ALIN in Burmese 1 Jul 80 p 6]
- SEIZURE OF OPIUM--A team of policement le d by Station Co~ander U Maung
Maung of Myoma Police Station in Mergui, accompanied by ward councillors,
- raided the house of U Than Pe in Yenanmye ward on 25 June and arres~ed
U Than Pe and Maung Aye Win along with 11 small packages of opium and opium
smoking paraphernalia. Action was taken against them under Sections 6.B
and 10.B of the Narcotic Drugs Law. [Rangoon MYANMA ALIN in Burmese 3 Jul
_ 80 p 6)
JAIL TERM FOR OPIUM TRAFFICKER--The court of Tatkon, Mandalay Division,
handed down a 10-year jail term to Daw Rhin Nu of Bo Min Yaung ward, Tatkon,
u~der Section 10.B of tne Narcotic Drugs Law on 25 June. The case was that
on 16 August 1979, a team of policemen and councillors aearched her house
- and seized some opium oil, a cash of 12 kyat which was the proceeds from
sale of opium oil and about 1 viss [1 viss equals 3.6 lbsJ of raw opium
hidden underground. [Rangoon MYANMA ALIN 3 Jul 80 p 6]
OPIUM SEIZURE--On 6 June, a team of policemen from Thegon township people's
police force searched 20-year old Ma Nan Shwe alias Ma Khin Kyi of Pinlon
village, Hsenwi township, Shan State, near Wetpok village bridge on the
_ Prome-Rangoan highway and seized 2.5 viss [1 viss equal~ 3.6 lbs) of black
opium from her hand bag. [Rangoon MYANMA ALIN in Burmese 18 Jun 80 p 6]
HEROIN SEIZURE--Acting on information, ward councillors and a team of police- _
- men searched the house of Daw Tin Nyunt in Ward No 11, Market quarter, Tamu,
Sagaing Division, on 19 May and seized two penicillin bottles of heroin.
Action is being taken against Daw Tin Nyunt unper Sections 6(B) , 10 (B)
of the Narcotic Drugs Law. [Rangoon MYANMA ALIN in Burmese 21 Jun 80 p 6]
PACKAGES OF HEROIN SEIZED--On 12 June, policemen from Mergui's Myoma police -
station led by Suh-Inspector U~Myo Myint sear.ched the house of Maung San Win
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in Alegyun ward and seized two small packages of heroin. Maun~ San Win was
_ arrested. On 13 June, the same police team searched the house of Maung
Kyaung Gyi in Zedan ward and seized 14 small package:~ of heroin, a syringe
and a needle. Maung Kyaung Gyi, Ma San Myint and Daw Aye Myint were arrested.
[Rangoon MYANMA ALIN in Burmese 23 Jun 80 p 6]
, MOULMEIN HEROIN SEIZURE---On 27 May, police lance corporal U Aung Kyaw and
a squad from Moulmein city people's police s'~ation searched O:in Than, alias -
Pho Cho, of Moulmein's Daw Lan ward, and T.hati Tun in front of Kawhtin school
on Maha Myatmuni pagoda road. The search uncovered a packet of heroin
worth 25 kyat and a cigarette laced with heroin. Charges have been filed
under Sections 6.B and 10.B of the Narcotic Drugs Law., [gangkok BOTATAUNG in
Burmese 6 Jun 80 p 5]
SEIZURE OF HEROIN---Acting on information, drugs suppression team led by the
station comtuander of Lashio's No 1 police station and people's councillors
a~.d people's militiamen of No 5 Aung Mingala ward searched the house of
Daw Htan Yin Kyain on Damma Yeiktha road on 29 June and seized from Daw
Htan Yin Kyain's daughter Ma Saing Lan about 41 ticals [100 ticals equals
3.6 lbs] of heroin worth over 50,000 kyat, hidden in 18 Thai-made detergent _
boxes. Action was taken under Sections 6.B and 7.B of the Narcotic Drugs
Law. [Rangoon MYANMA ALIN in Burmese 11 Jul 80 p 6]
JAIL TERM FOR HEROIN USER--On 29 June, Moulme~n township court No 1 handed
down a 5-year jail term on Raja as he was found guilty under Sections 6.B
and 14.D of the Narcotic Drugs Law. The case was that on 7 March 1978, a
team of policemen led by Sub-Inspector U Ohn Kyaing of Moulmein Myoma police
station searched Raja at Mydar field and seized a syringe and a needle
used in injecting heroin. [Rangoon MYANMA ALIN in Burmese 11 Jul 80 p 6]
SEIZURE OF RAW OPIUM, HEROIN--Crime suppression campaign led by Lashio
township people's council is being carried out in accordance with Pro~ect
"Galon." Accordingly on 3 July, 18 packets of raw opium weighing 14.1 viss
[1 viss ~quals 3.6 pounds] and worth about 30,000 kyat were found hidden
on the bodies of 7 women passengers on two small buses about to leave _
Lashio for Mandalay. Police station No 1 has taken necessary action under
the Narcotic Drugs Law after it was found out ~hat Ma Swe Kham, Air Aung,
Air Hkam, Mai Win, Aye Myint, Ma Khaung and Ma Mai Ngin were hired carriers
for Pha Lon, alias Aung Kyaw, of ward No 12. Similarly on 29 June, acting
on information, township council chairmen and members, ward councillors,
U Thein Naing, commander of the police station No 1, and subinspector U Win
. Myint Maw searched and found .41 viss of heroin valued at about 40,000 kyat
hidden inside "Thanpaya" brand soap by Daw Htang Yin Kyein and her daughter
Ma Sai Lang of Damma Yeiktha street in Ward No 5. Charges have been filed
under Sections 6.B and 10.B [of the Narcotic Drugs Law]. Drugs seized in
the two cases were worth over 70,000 kyat. [Text] [Rangoon LOKTHA PYEITHU
NEZIN in Burmese 15 Jul 80 p 5]
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CRACK DOWN ON DEALERS, USERS--Police, people's militia and ward councillors
under the leadership of Kyaukme township people's council are carrying out
drug and crime suppression under project "galon." "Undercover members of
project'galon' who were waiting near Daw Tin Aye's residence in Budawin ~
quarter of 7th ward ir Kyaukme searched Maung Khin Maung Lwin of 6th ward
, and found 11 packets of heroin each worth 15 kyat. Acting on information
supplied by Maung Khin Maung Lwin, the search party raided Daw Tin Aye's
residence and seized 14 packets of heroin each worth 15 kyat and 130 kyat
obtained from heroin sales." [Rangoon MYANMA ALIN in Burmese 19 Jul 8~ p 6]
COURT JAILS TWO MEN--Moulmein township court No 2 today found U Thaung Shwe,
49, of 509th ward of Mandalay and U Hla Myint, 48, of Moulmein's Dine-wun-
kwin ward guilty as charged under Sections S.B, 6.B, 10.B and 11 of the
Narcotic Drugs Law and sentenced U Thaung Shwe to 10 years imprisonment and
TT Hla Myint to 5 years imprisonment. The case was that on 4 April 1979,
Aukkyin ward people's council executives and Dine-wun-kwin ward councillors
raided "Shan monastery and found 12 viss [1 viss equals 3.6 pounds] of
cooked opium and .3 viss of raw opium being cooked in a flat pan." Charges
_ were filed in court against the two culprits following the seizure. [Rangoon
NlYANMA ALIN in Burmese 20 Jul 80 p 6]
'OPIUM KING' FREED--Lo Hsing-han, known as the opium king of the Golden
Triangle until he was sentenced to death on treason cha.rges, is a free
_ man, official sources in Bangkok confirmed yesterday. They said Lo, who
was arrested in Thailand in 1973 and deported to Burma, where he was tried
for high treason, anti-government activities, opium and heroin trafficking
and gem smuggling, was released about a month ago after the Burmese Govern-
ment announced a ma.ss amnesty for all anti-government activistso A Burmese
of Chinese origin, Lo was rated top warlord in the Golden Triangle. His
supporters origina.lly helped the Rangoon Goverinnent fight co~unist
insurgents in the area, but when in 1973 the Government asked him to
disband his group, he xefused and eigned a pact with other rebel groups,
was elected supreme of the northern Shan State ~tevolutionary Council and
declared war against the central Burmese Government. ~Text~ ~Bangkok
POST in English 17 Jul 80 p 1~
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HONG KONG
~USTOMS OFFICERS SMASH KOWLOON HEROIN RING
Hong Kong SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST in English 16 Jul 80 p 1
/Report by Walter Cheung7
JText? Customa o~cers 6ave Kun Tong~Lomeandeventu-
smashed a drug rin which aUy drave to a statioaery and
- dealt in No 3 heroin ~or vari- toy shop in Fa Yuan Strat:
ous d'utricts ia Kowloon. . He was spotte~ leaving
And they 6ave arreetad a throu~b a.rear entrana '
29-Yar-old man suspected of carryiaQ a pWtic b~Q.
beina the rin~leader and Althou~h the bsg rnntain-
operating a~ynd~cate for over � ed no drug~, ofticers entered
a~ear. the sbop and fouad 6.5 kilo-
The man, an employx of gtams of No 3 herout and 280
a finana oompany, wes ar- pamd of quinine~ with a ro-
rdted together with the 30- tail value oE about S3 millioa.
year-old proprietor of a T6e propriaor and 6u
Moaglcolc ~tationery aad toy wife wero daained last nig6t.
ehap and hu wife. ~ They wece expectod to ap-
'the arrat waa made after pear in NoM Kowloon Court
a two-moath invesd~adon by thi+ morniag chatged with
. cwtoms o~cen ~unda the poup~~ a~ dan~o us drugs
, direction of Superintaadent for unlawful traft'~cking.
TonQ Kang�~in~. The 29-year-old maa was
On Moaday the officers ~ rcleased on baii of 510,000,
followed a man aa 6e left his pending further investiga-
ti0ns.
CSO; 5320
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HONG KONG
OPIUM WORTH HK$200,000 SEIZED AT PORT, aIRPORT
Hong Kong SOUTH CHINA MORTIING POST in English 11 Jul 80 p 10
/Text7 Cwwnu and Facciae offi- -
cxn 6ave seized opium valued
at 5200,000.
Cwtom~ officer~ f~id the -
bigQat aeizure wu made on a
~ingaporeaa re~iaterad v~eel.
Camos Relian~x.
A totat of 900gra~ of
raw opium and dehydrated
prepuedoptum with a retail
va(ue of S 110,000 wu found
concealed in a worbhop lathe
in the eaQine room of the
ahi p.~
The ihip hsd earlier ar- . -
rived from Nortb ICora after
~topt in India. Sd Lanlu~
Malay~i~ aad lapan.
No one au arrated.
At Kai Tak airport, offi-
cen seized 1,360 ~ram~ of '
opium v4lued at 590,000 and _
arrated thm Indiaa mea. '
One had urivod on a
fll~ht from Homb4y with the
drup~ oonaaled in the false
batom of hia auit~e ~nd the
~ other two were arrated when
they took delivery of the drug
from the auspected couria at
a Tsimahattui guat houae.
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ALERT ISSUED FOR 'DRUG LETTERS' FROM SAN DIEGO
Hong Kong SOUTH CHINA MORDiING POST in English 10 Jul 80 p 18
/Text? Customs and postal offi-~
- cen are on Full alert for a
number of "drug letters" said
to Se on their way 'from San
Diego to Hongkong.
The letters are believed to
contain packecs of cocaine.
Five of the "drug letten"
have alrcady surfaced.
T6ese led to the arrest of a
2g year-old man in a Mid-
Levels flat on Tuaday.
The lettets arrived in two
separ~ u batcha and coatain-
ed cocaine worth abouc
S36,S00 on the Amerian
muka. Therc is no retail
rtwket wlue for the drug in
Hon;loonQ ot t6e moment.
~ It was Dot known how _
m~ny such "drug letters"
have ban Qosted.
The seizure on Tuesday
waa the first significant co-
caine find made by the serv-
ia.
In April, offiars also seiz-
ed 0.2 gram of cocaine from
an American tourist. i
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HONG KONG
BILL MAKES TRAFFICFI.~t'r~IN FAKE DRj3GS AN OFFENSE
Hong Kong SOUTH CHZNA MORDiING POST in English 10 Jul 80 p 8
/Text7 Unof}icial members have
- - come out in favour of the Bill
malcin$ trafficldng in fake
narcot~cs an offence.
At the sxond fCShcOg 6f
the Dangerous Drugs
(Amendment) Bill. Mr Peter
Woag said that a grounp of
Unofticials had eaxmtned t6e
Bill.
I~ie said the Government
had agrad to a aew subsx-
tion which would act as a
safeguard againat pottiblepo-
lia abuse by speafytng that
rto prosecution in rdpoct of ~
fake drugs should be insti-
tuted without the conaent of -
't6c Atwrney-General.
The, Hill would iatroduce
two changes to praent drug
legis(ation.
A person offering to traf-
fic ia what he believes to be a
dangeroar drug would be
. guilty of an offencx even if
the drug was a fa~e.
Also, a person who traf-
fics or offers to traffic in a
substance repnxnted by him '
to be a dangerous drug, but
which in fact is not, will be
guilty of an offence, but with
lighta penaltia similat . to
- those provided for deception.
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HONG RONG
BRIEFS
HEROIN RING SMASHED--Narcotics Bureau officers yesterday smashed a heroin
manufacturing and distribution syndicate and arrested 11 people during a
series of raids. In one of the raids, police afficers forced their Way
into a flat in Woosung Street and arrested three men and a waman. A quan-
tity of chemicals Were also seized. LText7 LHong Kong SOUPH CHINA MORN-
ING POST in English 9 Sul 80 p 17
AIRPORT HEROIN HAilL--~A 29-year-old salesman was yesterday at Kai Tak air-
port arrested When 840 grams of suspected heroin base was found under the
inner soles of his shoes. Customs officers said the drug, if converted to
No 3 heroin, would be worth $450,000 on the retail market. The man, who
had arrived on a flight fr~n Bangkok, wi.ll appear in San Po Rong Court
toda . /Text7 LHong Rong SOUt'H CHINA MORPiING POST in English 15 Jul 80
p 24~
MORPHINE PUSHING CHARGE--A couple appeared in North KoWloon Court yester-
day charged with possessing about.$3 million worth of dangerous drugs for
_ unlawful trafficking. Chan King-hoi (30) and his wife, Li Wai (30), are
accused of having a quantity of salts of esters of morphine in Fa Yuen
Street on Monday. No plea was taken. Mr Simon Clay remanded the couple
in jail custody until next Thursday. Text7 ~ong Kong SOVfH CHINA
MORNING POST in English 17 Jul 80 p 20~
DRUGS RAID ARRESTS--Police arrested 10 men and a wanan in a drugs raid in
San Po Rong yesterday morning. Officers from Wong Tai Sin raided a flat
at 24A Kam ~iing Street and found 14 packets of suspected manber three
heroin and sane paraphernalia. The 11 will appear in San Po Kong Court
tomorraw tu face charges of'possession of dangerous drugs for the purpose
of unlawful trafficking and possession of equipment fit for smoking drugs.
LText7 /Hong Kong SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST in English 20 Jul 80 p 77
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INDONESIA
~
JOINT ANTINARCOTIC CAMrti::GN WITH AUSTRALIA
BK051049 Hong Kong AFP in English 1023 GMT 5 Aug 80
[Text] Jakarta, 5 Aug (AFP)--Cooperation between the Indonesian and Aus-
tralian police in the antinarcotic campaign was paid off in the form of
substantially reduced flow of narcotics to Australia and an increasing
number of dope-connected arrests made, according to an Australian liaison
officer here.
Kerry Hill, an Australian senior police antinarco::ic officer posted here _
since January last year under the cooperation arrangement, told the ANTARA
News Agency the narcotic traffic from Indonesia to Australia had been
sharply reduced in the past 20 months. Also, many more arrests have been
made than was the norm previously, he added.
Indonesia being a natural transit area for the narcotic traffic to Australia,
he said it was in Australia's own interest to exchange vital information on
narcotics and suspected narcotic rings with Indonesia and to help train
Indonesian customs as well as police antinarcotic officials.
A number of Indonesian customs officer_a will next yesr undergo training in
narcotic detection in Australia with the use of sleuth-hounds.
He said the drug traffic to Australia follows the route: Thailand to Malay-
sia or Singapore, thence to Aceh or Medan in North Sumatra, and on to Jakarta
or Bali.
Bali, visited by an average 40,000 Australian tourists annually, is a key
.
stepping stone for dope traffickers to Australia, he noted.
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NEW 2F:AIAND
CONVICTIONS FOR HEROIN POSSESSION, TRAFFICKING REPORTED
Thomas Arthur Adderley
~uckland THE NEW ZEAIANL HERALD in English 24 Jun 80 p 5
fTe.xt7 A uckland entertainer Thomas Arthur Adderley was yesterday found
guilty of possessing heroin f ollowing a trial in the High Court at Auck-
land.
He was found not guilty on The accused had throwa a!houee in Epsom on Vovem-;
tbe originai charge of pos- package into the back seat ofjber 21. ;
s!essing txsom for ~upgly. the police car. It was later
� Adderley, aged 39, was re~ analysed and was found to~~ ~d a aotepad was found!
a~anded on bail tor a prob-I contain Z30 milligrams of ~ahich had numerous amall I
ation report acd seatence. hernin which wea 2~ Per c~entipieces of paper cut ont ot it. '
~ The t~ial was before Mr pure: In the icitchen a pacl~et of I
,Tt~stice Barker and a jury ot~ Detective Ser eant Horr~
g uc~ae was found and in the ~
frve men aad srven women. burg6 said the 6eroin would
~r I. F. Wi~liams appeared have had a street value ofl m was an empty~
~ bottle oi methadone.
Eer the accused, and ~ir I. R. about i1610. Adderle~ said that in late
Winkel for the Crown. He said w6ea heroin was 1979 he had just completed a
~ Detective Sergeant David ~oid on the strest, each deal- ~,y,~ ~~~~o~ ~at-
Alistair HorsDur~, a me er diiuted it with foreign ~ent at a drug dependencq
tier of the Auckland drug materiai such as glucose or clinic.
squad, said police had spo-lactose. I He said the mental stress
ken to Adderley ia Khyber ~~ve Sergeant Hors- b~ ~n so great he hsd
Pass Rd on Novemi~r 211ast b~. ~d ~ ~ ~ ~a~, -
Ye~'� oftea~stored in sma~ll pieces) Ad~d
ey sai~d the glucos~
The ac~cused had stapped of paper folded to form an {o~ ~ '
_ his car to check the oil. envelope. i as a sugar substitute in his
When the police approach- Detective Constable Rus-~~~,
4d him, he tried w get out oi sell bturray Gibson, of the~ ~~tepad had been cut
~be passenger door of his Auckla~xi ~rug squad, said~up and used to make "mock-
eer, but waa etopped by two he we~ with other memberslups" for newspaper adver-
policemm. lof the sqdad to the accused's tisements and for leaflets.
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Brian Christo~her Mules
Wellington THE EVEr1IIv'G POST in English S Jul 80 p 8 _
/Text/ Christchurch, July 4(PA)--A drug pusher with substantial assets,
who was involved in the distribution of heroin with a street value esti-
mated at $76,500, was jailed for seven years by Mr Justice Cook in the
High Court at Christchurch today.
Eie u Brian Chrisfopher ~ With Kevin Gerrard Hath� purchased three ounces of In April"this year the per- ~
Mules, aged 26, an electri- I away, a customs oificer. high quality from the im- son who had imp the ~
cian, who was employedby Between April 17 and porter tor =15,000. As he did 6eroin into Nea Ze~ of-
' the Rlccarton Borough I 1~iay 23 there were four aot have the cash to paq the fered some to Mule~e for
Council. He had pleaded ~ seizures of 6eroln tn Christ- importer he sold aa ouace to h(mself and a portlon of t6e
; guilty in t6e DiaMct Coaut i church and it was scien- Hathaway for =T500. comi~me~ wa~ aold in the
; to three charga of supplying ~ Ufically proved that all of ~a~t3~`aweq pald AruTea`aa Notth Ialand. By thet atage
; heroin and oae ot poseesaion ; tt:, drug came from the ~~~At of =5000 and the Mules had become addicted
i of 6eroin. same source. ~ re~naining =2500 waa w be and whea he asked f~ more
The forfeiture ot is470, ; Police work establ~shed i~id co ;~he courier's retnrn heroin, 6e Waa told that it
i the proceeds of drug dealing, that Mulea was one of tbe New Zealand. An ounce of ' wrnild be provided if he ar-
: was ordered, aad the amount pclncipals in the distribution ~ hemin aas sold to anothec , renged tor the dlstribution of
~ ot t6e fine to be impoeed on of No 4~ade heroin in April ; persoo and Mules claimed hernin in the South lsland. In
Mulea in addltion W the sev- and May. He received the that he threw the rest in the addition 6e would be paid
en qear jail term, will be de- drug directly from tbe im- Avon River. =2500.
termined by the J~Mge nert porter who travelled be- It.was difficult to assess The impocter avanted the
j Friday atter evideace called tween Bangkok and New ~e value of the hemin which deal completed as quickly as
: by t6epolice has been 6eard. Zealand. ~ Another person in Waa imported becanse We ( poeaible su that he couldget _
Mr N W WIlllameop, for t~ North Island was aLso p~y ~~e 9~~tY Were out of fhe cotwtry with his _
~ t h e C r o w n, r e a d t h e supplied. not known. Three ounces of ~ money. That waa when ar�
' statemerrt ot facb W the No 4 grade heroin imported ; ranQements broke down.
Court - not normally done Search ~ et 80 percent and cut tWO ! Mules only had =6000 and
; Khea- an accuaed person and a half tlmea betore ' had to give the lmporter
, pleada g~ilty W an ot(ence in At 8.30am on May 23, a be~ ~~d at street level at a;=2500 out of 6is oovn pocket.
; thP District CourL search warrant was e:- ~rvativeprice of i1S0 a .
ecuted oa Mules's home. SI- gram, Would be about Forfeited
' ~1~V multaneously a n~ber of :76,500.
In ul The Z5470 seized by the
~ `i ` J other addresses in Christ- In addition to the i10~ lice Was owed b Mules to
Mr Williamsoe said that church involved in the dis- p~d on Mules. =520 was ~ q
i as a result of i~ulries by the tribution of heroin were found in his house and ;4950 t6e drug Importer and ~tbat
~ Dru uad and Custom9 raided. moo~y Won1d be forieited to
8~1 was found hldden la the roof ~e Crown. Mulea 6ad not
; Departmeat and faformation Whea interviewed, Mules of 6isp~rent~' house. He ad-
receined, an investigation at firat deaied all knowledge mitted that the =5470 was flnanMally frotn the
was made into the drug re- of the distribution of 6ernin, ~ the procc~ds of drug deallng. 8 diatribntion� He did not
' lated activittes of Mules but later mede a written ; ~ D J R Holderaese, for accept that the street value _
from December, I978. It was statement admitting his in- Mules, said that the prisoner of t6e drug aas =78,500 as ~
suspected that he was in- volvemeat. He said he had -first became involved with ~ claimed by the pollce, but
volved in the supply and dis- become involved ~ith drugs heroin three qears ago wWle ~ waa 'more in t6e vicinity ot
tribution of heroia in Christ- w6ile travelling overseas overseaa, but it was not until i50,000," Mr Holderness
church. When he met a pecsoa dis= ~Y ~ year t6at his as. ~id.
- Early in 1980 it was es- tributing drug~ in Europe. Hia drug involvement had
tabiished that an importa- In April, 1980, thatpe r- ~tion with the drng in ~~ked 6is life, aad he 6ad
I tion of heroin aas about to son came to New Zeeland New ?ealand be~aa, avhea he I let his family doan and
take place and that Mules from Bangkok avith hernin Was �ffered a snall quantitq , almost arecked his mar-
waa operating in conjunction and Mules said that be for hia own use. ~~age. He 6ad faced np to re-
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Peter Jen Nigro
Auckland THE ~1EW ZEAIx1ND HERALD in English 9 Jul 80 p 4
/Text7 ~ man foand gnilty by a serious cate$ory because the
jury of possessing ~ quar- ~ jury had fo.tnd Nigro had~
ter ot a gr~m of heroia tor ~ beert in possession of the
supph� was yesterd~y sen- ,~8 for the purposes of suEa ~ ~
tenced to ls months' lm� f P~~
pri~onment. I ere wae no evidenCe be~
Peter Jen Nigro, aged 28, h; tore the court showing Yigro
furniture restorer, was also ~ SO~ heroin on other
E'med S1300. �C~~~~ ~ ~ bad no
His counsel, J4r B. V. WiI- Pn�r convlctions for any
dru -related offences.
- san, said Nigro came Erom w~~.e were, hawever, in~
an artistic f amily and his ~ ~he evidence several indica- ~
parents were leading New! tions that you ma~ well have i
Zealand artists. ' betn in the bus~esa as a;
In passing sentence, ur~small-time dealer in heroin,"
Justice Vaut~er said thel tha judge told him.
yuantity o[ herola involved~ He had beea Eound with ai
was admittedly quite smaU. ~ gyringe and 31480 ta cash. ~
Vigro was found in posses-i ~e judge accepted that ~
sion of 4.1 grams ol powder) nTigro had a EamI1X depend-~
whic6 on analysis contained~ eat on him but said tt wasi
?S4 milligrams of pure 6e-~ e:ctraordinary he should,
roin. ~ ~have e~cposed himselt to the~
But, said the judge, the otf� risks he did. bearing in mind ,
eace still came into th his domestic posiHon. ~
Peter Gerard Friel
Christchur.ch THE PRESS in English 10 Jul 80 p 4 -
~xcerpt7
_ Possession and suppty o(� f I[~ is' poisible that ~the, Friel pleaded guilty to the
herom wdre serious offences 'Crown may appeal against charges of supply and~ pos-
w�hich were prevalent and !the sentence on the ground session r>f heroin after the
che need for a deterren[ ~vas that it is too lenient. Lasti takinR of depositions in the
~oo grea[ to permit much ~veek ~lr Justice Cook sen�' District Court.
leniencv said ~fr Justice� tenced an associate of Friel, ~ Evidence was given that
~ook ~before sentencing a Brian Ciiriscopher 1~fules, jduring a police search of
young man ro tw�o and a aged 26, an eiectrician, to ; Friel's home three plastic
~.;If vears imprisonmenc in seven years imprisonment on~ ,bags of heroin were Found
- the High Courc yesterday. chree charges of supplying lou~side the house near the
Pecer Gerard Fnel, aged heroin and one charge ofl ;backdoor. When asked if he
2~. unemployed, who had possession of heroin. � had any more Friel took the
pleaded guilty in the District ;~tules aLso had drug money~ �potice into the garage,
Court [o ~wo charges- of 55740 forfeited to the ;reaclied inside the lining of
possession of heroin and Crown and still faces a flne ;an old car seat and pulled~
supplying heroin-was also which couid run into several out three more baRs of~
ordered to forfeit 51550 of thousand dollars , after a jheroin. A plastic bag oi!
drug money ~o [he Crown. hearing which will take place heroin was found inside~
His I-fonour ordered the on Friday. . ~another car seat. ,
hernin which had been ~
iseized to be descroved.
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During the ,earcn of the~ L"nder cros>-examinatinn know a~.yone else in thr.i
~house and garage :~315fi was D?[ective P. R. Rngers said "organi,ation."
fnund and of ihat Friel ad-: ~ that Fnef had stated that At hrst he had made noi
'mitted thac ~1550 was ow�ed. after he gnt the hernin he i pron[ from ~ne drug [rans-I
to annther person in payment '~'.~',u~ed it ~.~�ith glucuse endl actiuns but latterly he had;
tor tne heroin. The sum ~~f' , passed ic on ~o anuther per�~ becn making S50 ~m each bag,
S~"9 w�as found in the car ,nn ~.vhem he refused to~ he so~d foc ~500. The profit.
seats and ~400 hidden inside~ name. Che de[eccive agreedi was small and he had noq
a tnrch in Friel's bedroom. I chat Friet ~ti�as on the lower~ been engaged in wholesale
When interviewed Friell ~ level of [he "organlsation." marketing of the drug. He
admitted possession oP the~ 4ir ~4. A. Bunga~~, of 'h1e1-~ ,had very few assets of note
heroin and claimed that he lingson, who appeared for' 'and had no previous cnmi-i -
had received it from another' Friel said that ~he prisoner' ,nal convictions. ~
oerson the day before the i;ad only been involved in ~ne As a satisfactory, unspec-~
police raid. ~ arganisa~ion ior chree ~~r fnur ; tacular citizen and member
He made .a full statementi weeks and had merely acced 'ot an excellent family Friel~
admittiag thee h~ had sold at~ as a go-bet~.veen tor ~iules~ had aot involved in the drug,
least six bags of heroin for~ and a man whom he refused~ ,scene sume chree or four
- ~500 each, and mtde S50 on co name. ; ~~ears ago. For a long perio~
" each bag. The transactions The refusal oy Friel to he was only un [he frinRes
had taken place over three or! name the chlyd man in the~~ and did not become addicted
- foFriele5kd that .~1~50 of [he held aganst hm,because he ~devel ~ed some [dependance
money ~vus rn~ed on heroin genuinely ieared violence ~on heroin. He had experi-~
supplied to him but he de- and for his own satety. The ~mented with heroin out ofi
, nied tha~ the rei,.aining. threat of retribucion was very ~ curiasity, ~Ir Bungay said.
money ~,vas connected with~ real. Friel said he did not �
' druR dealing. "
Kevin Gerrard Hathaway
Auckland THE NEW ZE~I.A~iD HERALD in English 12 Jul 80 p 8
/Excerpt7 Christchurch (Press Association)--Customs officer Kevin Ger-
rard Hathaway was jailed for four years yesterday for his part in a heroin
trafficking ring.
Hafhaway, who had~ plead- addict and dealer, Brianiaf herain for supply. ThreelFriel, had been jailed for _
ed ~uilty to thcee counts of Christop~er Mules, who was I gi~ams of No 4 qrade herom, ~ two and a haif .years.
supplying No 4 grade heroin, receiving heroin directty, about 30 per cent pure, was i Counsel for Hathaway, '.VIr
was tald by Mr Justice Cook from a Bangkok co~ier. seized from Laird. I p, H, B, Hall, said that
in the High Court at Clu~ist� ?n,ail For the Crown, Oir G. K. ~Hathaway, a customs man
church, that as a trained Panckhurst, said the seizure fo~ l0 years, had undergone -
customs officer iu a poaition He said he could not aa led to a major police-customs a shattering experience. His
of trust and responsibilttq, cept that his involvement in operation which~ pomted to career was wrecked, his
EIathaway was fully aware the drug ring had been Hathaway dealing with family was also shattered
of the effects ot the drug on prompted by stupiditp or Mules. ~arxi he was facing imprison-
others. ~ na~vety. . AIl the men involved 3n the ment. The term should be
Hathaway was not an ad- I Hathaway, he said, was in ring had been charged with I less than the two and a half
dict, said the judge. He earrr~it for the gain he hapeci to drug dealing. ~fules had re~lyears given to Fri41, sub-
ed a good income and had achieve. ceived seven years' unprison-~mitted Mr Hall.
every prospect of conHnuing The trail leading to Hath-~ment after pleading guilty
to do so. away began on Apcil 18, ~to three connts and was
Yet despite this. he said. when Trevor James Laird awaitin~ trial on the fourtt~.
Hathaway had chosen to was arrested in Christchurch A sixth man involved in
make a close iriend of an and charged with possession ~the ring, Peter Gerrard
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LI F'E SENTENCE ON HEROI N COUNT REDUCED TO 16 YEARS
~uckland THE ~iEW ZEAIAND HERALD in English 25 Jun 80 p 10
/Text? Wellington (Press Association)--A life sentence f or importing
heroin has been reduced to 16 years by t:ze Court of Appeal.
'''Phis is a~ severe sen-�~ ~"The amendinent to thel for- a suffiaently-'stern re~
tence," the court said. ':It! 1~iisuse ot Drugs Act, which; acaon bp the courts in the
will be the longest tinite seri-; now increases the maxunumi case of really serious drug
tence ever to have beenl sentence to life imprison-~ crimes, while still leaving
served ;n New Zealand. meni, is one reflection of the the indeterminate mazimum
- "It is required to demon-) very serious v~'~ew that our of life for the very worst or
strate the view of the courtl sceiety necessaNy takes of. most heinous cases, or r~
that this..i~ a particulazly~ dealing in such pernicious~ served perhaps (as has
bad case, and also to give, ,drugs as heroin," the court; atways been the position in
weight to the cery serious , said. England for the otfender
assessmeat m~aae by cbe sen- Deterrent i who~must be regarded as a
tencing judge: ~~t purpose of; long-term menace to the pub-l
i The court - Mr Juatice ~e amendment is to enable~
Woodhouse, Mr JusUce Rich-~ ~
ardson and ?VIr Justice Ong- x~ere deterrent sentences to; sZgRlfLCaltt
!ey = allowed an appeal by ~ fixed at a level which will;
Brian James Curtis, aged 45, Provide the clearest warning; Drug offendWg u alw~ys
a setf~mploycd property ~y ~~on who migut be; serious but there � remaln
tempted to become invoived. significaat gradatfans o! cul-!
developer, against the life ~~~d by lifting the max-;
_ sentence , that followed his imum sentence in this wa ~bility e~ en at the upper~
conviction in the Auckland' Y~ end. of the scale and it would:
High Court last year. above ~he already long term: not be right to ignore real'
Curtis bou t a sea- oin ~f 14 ye~rs, the clear inten-~ differences by_ . a sudden
~ g g tion of F'arliament has beai: j~p from 14 yeats, as was'
yacht and - emptoyiag~ a ~ coosiderably broaden the
Tongan navigator and two area withir? wtuch it will be ~e Eormer maximum, W the
. New Zealanders - sailed Eor possible to impose ascending $~e ultimate sentepce of
Bali, the ~udgment said. levels of finite sentence ~e Lnprisonmeni," tl~ee court
The ob~ect was to buy can- should added weight need W
nabis there. But Curtis was be given to the deterrent as- "It that sentence were to ~
unable io do so and to avoid pect of punishment. ' ~ 8'e~'~lY ~ for ell the
returning empty-handed to~ ~"I'he line vvill need to be ma'e serious cases, then the
!Vew Zealand he decided to ~ drawn at some point. But court would have ceased to -
bring back 500 grams of he-; there would seem to be measure justice in fa~rour of `
roi~ he bought in Thailand. ample room in finite terms ~a Denalty that had become�
automatic." '
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MISSING SHIP'S CARGO LINKED TO DRUG TRPIFFICKING
Auckland THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD inEnglish 15 Jul 80 p 3
/Text7 police and ce~stoms "And, as there waa no sign
officers now believe of forced entry, it is possible
that three crates they were removed under
~ w h i c h disappeared ~e nos4s of harbour board
from an Aucklard staff."
- waterfront shed~ con- The wooden crates, ~vhich
aere sent from Eangkok,
tained drt~gs and' were weighed a total of 260 kilo�
remo~v~ed by traffick� grams.
e~. Theq were labelled as'con�
A fruitless search of the taining ccpperware and ad-
shi Yed]lo d Amsterdam in dressed to an AuckIand firra, _
TauPran a estezda , revealed which had been out of busi~
8 Y Y ness fox about a yea~, sald
the missing_ crates had not Mr Howley.
been inadvertently reloaded The crates were marked
at Auckland. 7vith a triple S sign inside a
The deputy collector ot diamond.
customs in auckland, i~ir b1. 1Rr Howlev said customs
G. Howley, said the "van. and poliee o~fic~ers investigat�
ishing" oE the crates was ing the raatter were seeking
being taken very serioasly. any informatioa on the
"We assume that the ~at~, ~
crates contained drugs and They were first noCiced
were illegally taken," hs missiag on Saturday from
said. the Captain Cook Wharf shed
`~If that is so it is a large after apparentlp being un�
amount of drugs that is in� loaded on Tuesday morning
volved. when the NedIIoyd Amster�
dam berthed at Auckland.
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NEW ZEAI,~ND
GOVERNMETdT IABORATORY IMPROVES DRUG-HANDLING EFFICIENCY
Wellington THE EVErTING POST in English 12 Jul 80 p 3
/Text7 A LARGE increa:e ia sLe year ending March . 31 seizures for analysis were
- number oE drag investiga- says. adflpted aad the more rou- _
- tlon Yas meant an i~t^re~�e Last year, some 4000 tine analyses automated.
In staH numbers and a cases were iavestigated,
a~betantW improvement ia~ 3200 lnvolving cannabi~ aad The latter development~
laboratory eifkieacy for t!K 360 heroin. had~ led W more precise data
Departmeat of SCle~tlfic "This additional demand concerning the possible
aad Iad~trial Researc~. for DSIR secvices has ~mpurities in tde drug, whfch
required a modest increase ' Was belptul in identifying its
The annual report of the ~~ff and a substantial source.
~lice aad ~cnstoms druf effort W improve efftciency Records of all samples
p� ~ w~t6in t6e lab�ratones�" are now maintalned on a
cases ln ~hich it is involv
has doubled over the last computer which also
four years. Standard P~Pares and prints the
certificates of analysis once
Those with hard drugs, Standard methods for the the scieatist is contident of '
principally heroin, increased ~~P~~ ~pd torwarding of the result.
threefold, the report for the ~
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NEW ZE?,IAND
CANNABIS CULTIVATION ON NORTH ISLAND ESCAIx~TING -
A uckland THE NEW 2EAIA ND HERALD in English 10 Jul 80 p 4
/Text7 Herald Corres Kafkohe s~id he wanted people to 9angled before yo~cag
The head ot t!~e Yorth- ~~r no illwions people."
land drug squad, Detec� sboat the probkms and ge abo warned tarmen
tive Sergcant J. R. Carr eftects ot cannabis. the dangera o[ sell~
sald yesterday that can- Fumers ivere the back- .ng off small lots o[ their
nabis cultivation w~s rlfe ~~~'9. ~ properties, which rnight
and escalating in the a'a~A ~th sound com- a~~wble for ordinary
- north. moa sense. he said. They farmfng. to YouuB P~PIe
He was speaking to a bad set the mora! stand- ~o could use it to grow
meeting ~ of ~ the Bay of ~ r�r �ther New Zea- ~annabls.
[slaads aub ovinca et standards l?e It a6ould be realleed
p'' ~vould not Wie to see com- t~~ i Uvie could not be
FedentM Fumera at peombed, . g
- UmaaerA. Hut he pae concerned msde ott a amall 30 or ~O-
Detective Sergeant Carr that tbere had been caaes blocic wlth a� cow. a
said d?ere were people ~ y~g tarmer�, growin~ boree and a smaU vega -
wl~o moved aorth oe a cannabls; and alao .easea ~ti~~ p�~'
seasonal basis to ~row a land bein ~sed Eor ff~ A� 'great majority ot
cannabis. g people who fonnd can-
"One aspect is t6at it.~ ~Ont the owners nabis, growdng did. not go
a means of escaping ac- ~~S� ~ directly to the poltce_
ceptable responsibilities. Deteclive Strgeant Carr ~~A lot of mn~ investiga-
It is a cash crop," he warned the farmers ~a an conducted on
said. against lettiag old houses ~~ay." aaid Detective
The use of cwnabts re- ~ Y~S p~Pie ~9 ~ Sergeant Carr.
flected poor . atdtades of ~~a'� ' He songht the assist-
many young people to '~If you don't Imow the ance of the pabtic to help
$a~e~Y� ~eople who want to rent to overcome the problem.
- "They are not accepting ~n old honae on yoar Tl~e anbprovinca presi-
, the standards we did," he ~r~i'~y. or t~eir way of dent, rtr bI. R. Tyldea,
sald. 3fe. Idck them out and asked the delegates for
Cannabis was resnlting 3oa't give them any op- ~pport for the drag
in greater socia~ problems Po~'tnnity." he said. sqnad to control the
than before. "Cannabis cultivation is rampant scourge of can- ~
Detective Sergeant Carr :tie greatest carrot being nabis g..*owing. ;
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HASHISH CONCENTRATE ON ~1IRLINER BELIEVED FROM INDIA -
Auc~land THE NEW ZF.AIAND I~RALD in English 7 Jul 80 p 1
/Text7 .
A Cu.stom$ drng-seeking dog has dis-
covered a cognac bottle filled with
hashish concentrate in , an airiiner at
~uckland InternationalAirpar~
Custaa~s officers ~ believe ~ T h e r e were several
the aarcotie, fmmd in a toilet thearies about the uttended
compattment on a British destination for the dnig.
- Ait~av~ays 747'on Friday woutd Mr Hartley said that per-
be worth, betweea ~2000 aad haps it was meant to have
i4000 0~ the.drug market. been glcked up when ~the air-
The department's duef in- craEt landed in Australia.
- gestigating of6cer iq Auck- The intended racipi~t
land, 3~Ir S. Hartley, said the mlght~ hava beea acated oti.
bottle .was probablq secreted . . . .
~ on the London-to-Auckland
aircraft when it stoppe~ ott
at Bombay, in India.
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PAKISTAN
LARGEST OPIUM SEIZURE IN LAHORE
Karachi L1AWN in English 26 Jul 80 p 1
~Text] Lahore, July 25--In the biggest-ever haul of narcotics in the
history of Lahore, 14 maunds of opi~ worth Rs. 30 lakhs were seized ~rom
a bungalow of the posh Gulberg here this eveniug.
The opium was being loaded in a jeep and a car in packets of five kilograms
each and was to be taken to Pakistan-India border for smuggling across the
border. Three persons, Ra.shid Jawaid and Khalid Jawaid, both sons of a
notorious smuggler, Asghar Ali Turkiwala, aad Muha~ad Akram, their aervant,
were apprehended. Six other persons, including three women on whose clue
the opium was seized, have also been appreheaded.
According to details, Nawankot Police got a clue that two persons, Agha,
Mubin, a B.S~. student, and his brother, Agha Wasim, a F.A. studeat, were
selling five kilos of opium to one flyder Ali of Nawankot. The Police
arranged a party led by Inspector Choudhry Moha~ad Raza aad raided the
house of Said Hyder Ali. The Police arrested all the above named persons,
besides three women.
Questioned by Police the two brothers informed that they had purchased the
opium from the bungalow of Asgha.r Ali Turkiwala in Gulberg.
The Police raided the said bungalow and held the opium and the persons who
were in the process of taking it to border for smuggling to India.
The gang is stated to be operating on interna,tional level. The Police has
despatched parties to various parts of the country to arrest its other
members.
This is the second big success in a week of the Nawankot Police which
sma.shed a gang of persons engaged in preparing li~uor in big quantities.--
PPI
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PAKISTAN
BRIEFS
OPIUM RECOVERED; 2 HELD--The Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) ha.ve
- arrested two persons and recovered about 372 kilograms of opium from
their possession. Both of them allegedly brought the opium from
Rawalpindi and were trying to sell. them in the City. They were residing
in Natha Khan Goth. The CIA party raided a house, arrested them and
seized the contraband opium. They have registered a case against the
accused persons and are interrogating them. ~Text~ ~Karachi UAWN in
English 24 Jul 80 p 8]
SANGJANI OPIUM ARREST--One person was arrested yesterday from Sang~ani
check post for allegedly possessing opium. Zehrullah Khan S/o Rahim Shah
of Swabi was held during a routine check of the buses coming from N.W.F.P.
and 800 grams of opium was recovered from him. A case has been registered
against him under Section 3/4 of the Enforcement Act and investigations are
on. /Text/ /Islamabad THE MUSLIM in English 20 3u1 80 p 3/ _
OPIUM SEIZURE--Karachi, 24 July (AFP)--Police have arrested two Yakistanis
and recovered about 37 kilograms of contraband opium meant for smuggling
to Western Europe and North America, official sources said today. On
Tuesday [22 July] over 80 kilograms of charas (Indian hemp) were seized
here following the recent disclosure of an international narcotic smugglers
network in Pakistan. A martial law court had sentenced two narcotic
smugglers to 15 lashes each along with one year's imprisonment and a fine
_ the same day. Meanwhile, a 35-year old West German national, Klaus Jurgen
Schiller, who was wanted on drug trafficking charges in West Germany, has
been deported, official sources said. Schiller was arrested here on
February 21 with six kilograms of charas and was serving a six-month sen-
tence in Karachi jail. He was handed over to West German Consulate officials
and put on a Lufthansa flight to Frankfurt under German police custody, the
sources added. [Text] [Hong Kong AFP in English 1557 GMT 24 Jul 80] .
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tIELD I~ITH IL'*?---An up~ountry r~an was nabbed by the Crime Investigating
Agency (CIA) from Shah Faisal Colony with one ma.und of contraband opium
yesterday. The man with the contraband was identified as F~khruzzama.n
alias Ulfat Husain. The opium was concealed in a bed-roll which the
accused was carrying and waiting for a cab when he was surprised by a host
of CIA men. Further investigations are going on to find out if the accused
was a member of any organised gang of drug ~raffickers. ~Text~ ~Karachi
L1AWN in English 25 Jul 80 p 8~
IMAM OF MASJID CONVICTED--Digri, July 24--An Imam masjid Hafiz Amanullah
was sentenced to two months R.I. for keeping contraband opiwn. According
to a report, when the convict was coming from Hyderabad to Digri he was
intercepted by the police who recovered one seer of raw opium from his
- possession.--PPI. ~Text~ [Ka.rachi MORNING NEWS in English 27 Jul 80 p 5~
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PHILIPPINES
~
FIRST LADY FORMS TASK FORCE TO FIGHT DRUGS
Manila PHII.IPPINES DAILY EXPRESS in English 12 Jul 80 p 1
[ Text ] THE FIRST [.ADY, Imelda; ~e also ~ said th3t the task force
Romualdez Marcos, yesterday wi11 try to solve the drug addiction -
created a task force to coordinata problem positively and ~lift drug
efforts by various govemment addicts from cheap thrllls and
agenciea in the fight against drug money-goals to patdotism and love
addiction and traffickin& ot'tonntry?. ~
In a meeting yesterday with the ~,t, CoL J.F. Camiguin, a+ho -
- National Bur~au of Investigatioa and bciEfed the Eic=t Lady durtng tIie'
other law enforcement agencies, m~~, ~aid 60 pecceat of thoae
Mrs. Marcos ordered the taak force to~ ~~ed fvr dntg push~n8 in� 1978
coordinate with the min9atries of ~d;~g~g from I1~i1:: ~
health, social services, and justice ~
in preventing drug addiction and wB SAID that 7S perceet of thoee
trafficking. umted d~'~�t ~ p�~0d "~eee
The task force is composed of '"'~�i"= ~"i~to:s.
Ha s~id dtat ma~jwna cultlwHon.
representatives from the NBI, Metra
: w~hid~ meieaed in 1971, h~ now spcesd
com, CANU, M~tropolitan Police P~"~~ ro"n~'. From
Force, Miniatry of Education and the ~ 1971 to 1979, he ~td. ~ todt of 3,011
Ministry of Local Government and w~oj~P~a ~~0n ~ei~�d by the
Communiry Development. ~~~~ujn ~o ~id that Maoi4 is nc~
Metro ManiIa Vice Governor Mel beint u~d b~ dru~ ~~n u~"~t
Mathay Jr. was named altemate of pO1"t izO"' ~0~�k tOZ ~~ti~
Mrs. Marcos, who is the task force's ~O ~~~'�d' ~e US ~nd Eo~rope.
!t ens obrred dwi~. tfie rAeetta~ -
coordinator. that mat d:u~ addicb baloai to the 1&20
� s s q~, ~uP. Thdr mdn wncas oF thtWs ace
THE FIRST LADY sai�~ that the m~ md ootyh .~Y~Ps. it aaa
objective of the task farce is not i~ Q~, a~ro~i~i
only to center on che medical, social, ~d~~y p~,a of brfa�n~ c1?eir�
or economic aspects of the dtug d~"'~"g tO ~�b~~'~'~'on
problem but aLto on its politicat 0��a~' G'"~�iD
�
ramifications. � j,~py, ~etda R M~rcos~
"We must ~ve the drug addicts ~~~y y~ �~~yo~ of.
and drug pusher~ a cause. Instead of ~o M~ ~y putticip~te in the
- selfish reasons, their goal should be ~~p~ apimt dru~ tnlAcldnt.
love of country. We must make them "'the bV~est b~mun P~~'t~ oi au
ddes ate the roath md it ther fall PieY to
feel like hcroes," the First Lady sai,d. ~~~~e au
ob}sctfve i~f ra~kiait the metroPulit s'City.
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uf M,a,~ - Mn. IN.rcw coia the vico
mayoa aftar theit lnductlon at
M~~b
E~ipto~si~ concern o~er reports tAat -
diui abwe amon~ the youth is again on
che. riie, the Fint Lady said, '"Thb can
ooty maa one thin~, the drug puahers aro
s~+ en~bddeaed in t1~eIr trade."
' S~iB URGED the ~ice maYosi to be
ataars a.vare ot wlyt i~ happeninf aro~d,
them. ~
~~Dru~ ~tatllckln~ ia el~dr aeu can oNY
b~ nlpped la th~ bud !t local otflcWr~h
con~tantfy m ~lett y~itut evil demeatt~u
their oommwilties; she s~d.
"You mwt ~n out and tdl the pwplk
about this d~nger," she told the vice
maYars.Maad romind them about kaPing
both mi~ud and body 6ealthy." ..1
r[RS. MARCOS rnjoined the local
exacuu~es to ~et more iavolved ia the
servioe of the poopla
'"The mayocs hare enoustt joM to do,
~o yoa sliouW ~o out aod ask the peopia
- what theY want," ahe said, "becauae yoq
w.`i_ll be the eovemment's contact witL,
UR~~ ~
She also deplorcd the lack of
u~tenction betweett mayon snd vice
mayon end'"said that somethiog ahouid be~
,done to cemedy this. .
Aside from cwlbing dru~ uafflckc~.
the +rice msyon were also ~lcad to hdp ia
rtuintainin~ cleanlineu ud orde; ia ttwii
communitks.
In thi~ connectbn, the Fiett Lady ~
she wW conduct a conteit foc tha bett
maintain~d city hall in Metro MotUa.
Inducted by the Fitst tady were: Yr.~
Mayors Jama Ba:ben o[ Mmit~. Macario
P. Runinx of Cabocaa, Soephea S~ino ot
Quezon City, and Wencatw Trinidad'of
Pa~ay.
J
AlR~dO YICCACIO OI M7IibO1t, ~illt00
Bautista of Navotas, Pablo Mgeles of 9m
Juan, Sokdad Lopez of MandaluYo~�
[sidro Atenas of Vaknzsda, JohaaY
Wilsoe of Makati, Albert A~uirre ~i
Paru~aque, Santiago Cubs of
Muntinglupa, Teofnto Santos of Marikint,
vicente Eusebio of P~sig, Nicanor Guc~r
of Taguig, iKiguel Ponce of Piteroa, u~d
Lollta Cast~7lo of Lat Ptats.
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SINGAPORE
MORPAINE FOUND IN CURRY CONDIMENT
Islamabad THE MUSI~IM in English 22 Jul 80 p 4
( Text ] SINGAPORE, July 21: The Cust� FoUowing that ~eizurc, Cuscom~
omi Depetment hae has . confic� an~wunced that it wai aa offma to
med thst Kao Kass aa usaedient impat or� xU the in~edienc in Sin-
usualiy importad from India and gspore. �(~uoms said thu ICaw
wed in makin6 cvrry dishea, wnt Kasa was a poppy xed and could
ains morphine, have the s~mc effat a: hsrd drugs.
A Oumoms ~pokeunan ~aid i[ wed exces~ively. '
chemial analyris had sf~own that Kasa Kaa u u~ually uaported
chae wae cwo to rix miliiQam~ ot froen� India ud uad moidy by
mocph6~c in evay 100 gram~ of Indiw in the preparation of mu-
KaraKso aad it would, thQefore, toonld~ickrn, crab and .cvttle PNh
be uaced lil~e my ocha dru~. ~artis.
But the depatmeat has oot yet K~ss Kan i~ not bamed in ~tsl-
decided whst actian to tak,e apieut ay~ia, and a xt~oc Malayian Ekalch
anyone fauad ia po~esooqof it. Mini~try oEticul ~w raendy repor-
Polia roaentl~r wrooped on ted u "thae wae two
lndfan ~pia ~6ops tlrou~iiout Sin~ ~YP4 0! ICa~ - red and wbite
~apoce aod ~eiaed 9A6.6 kilot of aad tMt the whice type eoani~
Ka:s Kao whidi. Pnioe aould . ned ~o little morphinc a~ w pase no
j won be dert~oqai t6rac.-AFP , .
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. CANADA
HEROIN FLOOD FEARED IN WAKE OF OPIUM GLUT
Toronto THE GLOBE AND MAIL, WEEKEND EDITION in English 19 Jul 80 pp 1, 2
[Text] Montreal (CP)--A glut of opium on world drug markets thie year
could reault in increasing amounts of heroin turning up on the streets of
Montreal and Toronto, police warn.
Capt. Henri Marchessault, head of the Montreal police drug squad, said
yesterday there already has been " a significant iacrease" in heroin
entering the city as a result of the surplus. "We don't have exact
figures yet, but we can see a definite trend developing."
He said his staff recently has been increased to 30 from 22, and arreat
of traffickers of what he termed "hard drugs" such as heroia and cocaine
has been designated top priority b ecause of the problem.
Insp. Ab Michaud of the RCMP's Montreal drug squad estimates that the
number of heroin users in the area has increased in the past 18 montha
to between 2,000 and 2,500 from 1,200. -
"In Toronto they've really seen an increase (in users). The drug aeeme
to be more available than before b ecause of the surplus (on world
markets)."
RCMP Insp. Gilles Favreau attributed the glut of heroin to social and
political chaos in Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan and Lebanon, making
enforcement of narcotics laws in those countriea more difficult.
He said the four countries had overtaken Thailand and other Southeast
Asian nations as the major supplie rs of the world's heroin. The four are
expected to produce an estimaCed 1,800 tonnes of opium this year, 800
tonnea of which could make its way to Western European laboratories to
be transformed into heroin.
The potential 80 tonnes of heroin that could be produced from this amount
of opium is nearly nine times the demand for the drug in the Weat, he
said.
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A U.S. Senate report released this
week warned that an increased flow oi
heroin from the. Near East this year
poses "a severe threat to the increas-
ingly iragile social order of the West.
"The forei~-policy difficulties we
and our allies are experiencing in
Iran, Afghanistan and PakisEsn are
directly linked to the domestic pne-
- nomenon ot increased rates ot over-
dpx deaths. heroin addiction and ille~
gal black marketeering."
Insp. Favreau noted that in the last
few month several large heroin labs
have also been raided in West Germa�
ny, where surpluses ot the drug have
pushed prices down dramatlcally in
the last year.
He said that since January, the
RCMP has uncovered two processing
labs in Montreat, arresting 40 people, -
and warned that existence ot the labs
indicates thaVinternational ~.-ug trat-
fickers may be pianning to use Mon- -
treal and Toronto as distribution
points for heroin in the wake oi the
Iranian revolution. ,
In Torottto, RCMP Insp. David
Browii said the amount and availabili-
_ ty ot heroin is limited now, but he be-
lieves more will soon be on the mar-
ket. He said seizures in New York and
in Europe indicate that world suppl~~es
are increasing, and that means more
would soon arrive in Toronto.
"We usually toqow New York by a
matter ot two to three years," he said..
"And we've seen some major seiz~res ~
there in recent months so we expect
more oi the drug will start to arrive
here soon."
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CANADA
DRUGS WORTH $1 MILLION SEIZED IN THREE RAIDS
Windsor THE WINDSOR STAR in English 21 Jul 80 p 3
[TextJ
~ Police arrested seven~per-' arraigned in court.Saturday
sons and sciud more than S l on charges of conspiracy to
milGon worth of illegal drugs tr~c in LSD. They were
in thra unnlated raids this remanded in custody and
weekend, wero ac6eduled for a bail
Four area men were artest- hearingtoday.
ed Friday night after officers Elxwhere in the pcovine4
- of , the joint RCMP and polia aearched a vaa on
Windsor drug squad sciud Highway 401 near S~ Catha+
15,400 units of LSD in a taxi rinea and aeixed a load oi'
as it crossed inw Canada: liquid hashish valued.at inore
through the Detroit-Windsor than S't million on the strat.
tunnel. The nroet value of the The RCM P said it was one of
dNQa was oetimated at fSO,- the Is~est seizuns of the
000. dru`evarmsdein Caneda.
An RCMP apokeaman eaid Gaig Earl Huffmaa~ 24~ of,
the arnsts were mAde~follow� Hagersville, Ont., wa~
ing the seizure and were the c~targed with, importing a
rwult of a"lengthy invattiga- narcotic.
tion." The coafiscation is ln the third raid, police
- considered "one of t6e larg- found a laborawry and. sup-
esteverintheprovince." pliea for making dte halluc~-
- Joseph Cervin. 20~ of Wil~ nogetic dtu~_DMA in a Mis-
kinaon Drive, Leamington; siasauga apattment Enough.
Robert Gamble. 26, of Byng chanicala to produa ~about .
Road; Tracry Rekuta, 23, of 368,000 worth of the drug
Mill Strat Wes~ Leaming- wasseued.
ton; and Vincent Sultana. 23, David Robson Smith.22.of
of McDougall Sttat, were Hxtor, 27, of Oak
lle, w~ete
charged with trafTicking and '
conspiracy to ttaf}ic in the �
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CANADA
SEVEN CHARGED ~'~FTER THREE DRUG RAIDS
Toronto TEiE GLOBE AND ir1AIL in English 21 Jul 80 p 5
[Text]
The Royal Canadian Mounted Pa A?3-year-old London, Ont. man and
lice have made [nree drug sCizures in a 27-year-old Oakville man have been
Ontario, including what a spokesman charged with conspiracy to traffic in -
said is believed to be the second larg- DMA and trafficking in D[vIA. They
_ est seizure of liquid hashish in Cana- ~ have been released from custody and
da. are to appe~r in Provincial Court in
The RCMP and Niagara Regional Brampton on Aug. 11.
Polir_e seized 148 pounds of liquid Also on Friday, RCMP and Windsor
hashish from a van stopped on the Police seized 15,;;00 doses of LSD (ly- -
Queen Elizabetii Way near St. Catha- sergic acid diethylamide) which po- `
rines on Saturday. The hashish, which lice estimated at a street value o[ 350,- _
police estimated at a street value of 000. The drug was being brought into
31-million, was con�ealed in the door Canada from the United States
panels and ilooring of the van. throu~h the Windsor-Detroit cross:,^.g
The van had just entered Canada and was seiaed with the assistance of
from the United States when it, was Canada customs department officials.
stopped. A 24year-old Hagersville, An RCMP spokesman said Windsor
Ont., man has been charged with is one of the focal points for LSD dis-
importing a narcotic and is to appear tribution in Ontario. Charged with
in Provincial Court in St. Catharines conspiracy to traffic in LSD are two
for a bail hearing today. Leamington, Ont., men and two Wind-
On Friday, the RCMP and Halton ~r men.
Regional Police raided what they be-
lieve to be the first DMA lab to be
seized in Ontario in the past three
vears. D~tA is an amphetamine-type
che~nical. The laboratory was located
in an apartment on Bonnymede Drive
in Mississauga and contained enough
of the chemical in the initial stage of
manu[acture to yield $60,000.
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CANADA
MA.JOR DRUG SEIZUR~:' OFF HALIFAX CALLED ' PLAIN GOOD LUCK' _
Torontn THE GLOBE AND MAIL in English 11 Jul 80 p 8
[Text]
HALIFAX (CP) - More than Hyannis, Mass., William Wanna-
tnur to~s ot hashish, seized from a maker; 23, of Eagerton, Mass., and
sailboat near here in what potice George Manuel San[os Nunes. 24,
said was a stroke of plain good ot Ferragudo, Portugal, were
luck, was. burned yesterday after charged after RCMP boarded the
being hauled in a truck with a 10- ketch Sea Tern near Sambro and
member RCMP escart from Hali- confiscated 8,300 pounds'of hash-
fax to a pulp mill in northern Nova ish. worth an estimated S30-mlllion
Scotia. . on the street. .
RCMP otficers tossed 136 bun- The boat was seized inside Cana-
dles into a boiler that normally dian territorial waters. Last
burns a combination ot wood waste month, police had to release all
and oil at the Scott Maritimes pulp suspects they held in tE~e seizure o[
mill at Abercrombie Point. Each about 22 tons of marijuana oft
bundle, weighing about 70 pounds, seuthern Nova Scotia because they
contained numerous small packets boarded the boat betore it reached
ot the drug wrapped in g~id.foiL Canadian jurisdiction.
Cpl. Brent Crowhurst of the Hali- On Wednesday night, responding~
fax drug section described the to a radioed cs-11 tor help from the
Moroccan hashish as "the Cadillac Sea Tern. a small Coast Guard
ot rash." vessel took the boat in tow and
It was the largest seizure ot. headed for shore, but the crew of
hashish ever r.nade in Canada. ii the rescue vessel was suspicious
not in North America, he said. and notiiied the RCMP. As a police
There have been bigger cannabis neared the Sea Tern, an
seizures, but they have �been ot explosion ripped through the ves-
marijuana, a less valuable drug. se1� One policeman and a crew
Three Americans ar,d a Portu- member were slightly burned in
guese, charged in court here yes- the blast. which set the boat afire
- terday with drug smuggling, were but did not sink it. .
arrested on Wednesday night in Closer investigation rerealed the
what otficials thought at first was a druB~ which a pollce spokesman
routine rescue at sea: ~aid was poorly concealed. "It's
"I'd like to say it was the resvlt lretty hard to hide three tons of
ot an intensive investigation and veed on a boltt like that."
all kinds of smartness and bright- In the earlie r seizure, police
ness un our part, but we just got a converted shrimp boat -
lucky, a police spokesman said. ~ nautical miles otf Shelburne,
David Salvador, 33. of Prnvince- '
town, Mass., F'aul Campbell, 33, of
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N.S., and arresied c~ight C�Ion7-
b~~ns and a~i Amerie~in, ccinfTSC~at-
~ng an estimated $50-million worth
of marijuana.
Apc~lice spokesman said the io~ir
' in the la,test case are charged
- under Se~t3on 5.1 of the Criminal
Code, which carries a minimum
seven.year sentence.
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C.'~,DTADA
LSD CACHE SEIZED IN UNDERCOVER OPERATION
Windsor THE WINDSOR STAR in English 24 Jul 80 p 3
[Text]
Membors' of the joint raigned in provinciat court Mor~is ar~d Jo ~4~~y'~
RCMP and Windsor police todayonthaecharges: t~e q~en~,bKis o~ u~o,: -
~~drug squad ended a four- lohn William McAgy. 32, cle
month undercover o ration " ~
- P~ of Renaud Line, Emeryville asxoaatea . o ~,~4p.
Wednesday with the arrests - two counts of trafficking ~9 .~�o ~',.jp}o~ ~h,tyr~,es
of five area people and the L SD and two counts of pos- a~~ qe~t~,q~,R he,itivesti- -
seizun of at least 14,000 hits � session of LSD For the put- ~ Bation.
of LSD. po~e of trafficking;
A spokesman estimatcd the Edward Morris. 29, oF
cache seiud Wedneaday - Reaaud Line. Emeryville -
plus 6~000 hits of the ratrict- g~n le counts of trafficking
ed drug purchased by under� g
cover officxrs in the &Ile LSD and poa~oesion of LSD
River, Emeryvi(leandStonry forthopurpoeeoftr~fficfcina;
Point area duriag the npera- Ciaude Brevard, l9, of
tion - was aorth 5100,000 Stonry Point - tw,o counts
on the stra~ ~ of trafficking LSD;
Three peopie, including two Darlene McAgy, 26, of
membera of tht Chosen Few Maidatone - two counts of
moWrcyclegang~wenanest- 'trafficking LSD and one
ed at a Highway 40l service charge of possession for the
centre near Tilbury where the purpose of trafficking LSD;
' officers had srt up a buy. Diane Lynn Hillman; 25, of
Approximately t5,000 hits St. Piare Strat, Tecumseh
were seized thae, and the - onF count oi trafficking
romaining 4,000 were rxa LSD and two counts of pos-
vered from sev~ral homes and session for the purpose of
thegang's ciubhouse. trafficking LSD. _
Eive people wen to be ar- , The spokesman idrnufied
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CANADA
_ BRIEFS
MARIHUANA SHIP IMPOUNDED--Halifax (CP)--All nine men arrested with a ahip-
ful of marijuana off Nova Scotia's south shore more than a month ago ~ave
been returned to their native countries. But RCMP still have the small
motor vessel, the "Patricia," impounded at Shelburne, N.S., awaiting a
federal decision on what to do with it. Eight Columbians and one American
were arrested May 3i ~fter a chase involving the RCMP, the federal
fisheries patrol vessel "Louisbourg" and Canadian and American Coast
- Guard vessels. W. J. Marks, acting director of immigration for the Nova
Scotia region, said Friday the eight Columbians were held in Iialifax for
a month awaiting arrival of temporary travel documents. Then i~igration
officials escorted them in groups of four to New York, where they were put
on a direct ~light to Bagota en route to their homes in Cartagena. The
lone American returned to his home soon after the arreat. The nine
suspects weren't charged in Canada because the "Patricia" was arrested in
an "intermediate zone" 12 to 21 miles offshore. But Canadian laws per-
mitted seizure of their ship and its cargo of 20 metric tons of mari~uana.
RChIP took the mari~uana to the Scott Maritimea Ltd. pulp mill near Pictou
and incinerated it. [Text] [Ottawa THE WEEKEND CITIZEN in English
- 5 Jul 80 p 9]
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- CZECH4SLOVAKIA
PARENTS WARNED OF YOU'IIi DRUG ABUSE PROBLEM
AU171830 [Ediborial Report] Prague VECBRrTI PR.AFiA in Czech on 11 Juae 1980 on page 5 ~arries
a 2,400-word article by L. Hruskova entitled "Mofi,her, Father, Do Yau I~ow Mb i~1e11?,"
which deals with the problem of drug abuse in i~e CSSR. The article is baBed on a re6earch
paper by a team of scientists led by psychisi~?ist V. Vo~tik, Pounder oP 1~ie depai~tmetit tor
adolescen~s of the menbal institute in Prague-Hohnioe, examining t~he social roo~s oP drug-
$akir~g amorig young people.
According bo Vo~tik in 1971 one third of 1~e pa~ients in his dqpat~tment Were adoleseerits
"who made excessive use of clrugs." Bq 1974 they acaourited Por alm,ost one-h81P of his ~
patients. Even fshaugh their share has declined again since then, Vo~tilc adds: n9ha'~ does
not mean that the ps~oblem itself' has diminished." ~i~e to 'bhe ao~b~aty~ po~tik ~eliev'es
tha altho~ugh "the pmoblem affe:;ts the capitalist states to a far greater deg=+ee a2id fot~
the time being ~ouches up~n us only marginally," se~aral aspeots of di+ug al~tiab in the CSSR
- give rise to concern: "First of all, it affects increasir~g].y your~ger age grpnps. ~esides,
fihe composi~ion of the dri,~s as weil as ~he form of bheir a~plica$ioi3 is o~is"nging t'o~ 1~?e
tlq~leiAy ~'D!e"Fre is more ~mainlir~ing; ~ thab is, in~ecting strai~t ir~o ~he v`eia~"
Using as a starting poin'~ the deseMp~ion of ~he aases of bhree �hard-aore ad8icbs�--a
17-year-old son of "pr~inent" parerits working abroad; anp$her 17-year-old girl; arid a
university student, the daughter of a pt~psician--and ~e results oP yo~tik~s study con-
ducted among 1,000 adoles~ents "wha.have tried it," the at~fticle ihen analyzes ~f~e soo~al
envirormient of those susaeptible to drug abuse. It notes bha~ "iihe young pbople oP b3day
who have succumbed to addiction-promoting substanoes subs'betlbially difPl~~in sxial atbd
psychological terms Prom others suPfering Pram psychological disaa~der agd, ~ a~'~;iai~].arly,
f~om heal~hy yau~h. In the same way, fthe Pamilies in whioh they gretii up dit~e~ frotu 'the
Pamilies oP the healthy youth." �
- According ~o Hruskova, yo~tikis study revealed ltie followis~g t,wo basia social pa~terr~s _
among drug_taking your~g people~ "On ~he one hand there are children, oPften very ~alented
and overly sensitive, growing up in f7he midst of an enviror~npnt f~at is not eapable of
providing enough food for ~hat sensitivity nor oapable of ca~erirrg tio their inolinatiot~s
- ar~d interests. This is the problem oP the so-csalled ~good Pamilies~~xil~s domineering,
ambitious parents who have an ec~-aggerabed interest in ~eir ahild~s social auoagss, of
parents who warit their child ~o , e the best and $o have absolu$ely everytxsii~g but cai~not--
or do not wan~ to, owing to bhe,'rx complacenoy--devote fhe r~cessary bime ~o the ohil'd.
Later when ~hings do not t,izrn o~,.tt ds they had hoped they begin 1io assuiae fhe o o8�ite
at$itude toward ~heir child pisrhaps in the belieP $hat bhereby t~iley pqy'i,d stit~,t~a$e~ his
ambition more. ~
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"On the ofher hand there are the families where the fa$her drinks ~over and a~4e what is
socially acceptable~ and the mother lives in constant tension attempting to keep it secret.
To cure her headaohe she constantly takes ipills.~ Pills become a panacea and the notion
of their amnipotence is instilled in the mind of the voung, immat~zre person. A suitable
situation, usually a iparty~ then occurs. ~e parents do not suspect ar~ything, the situation
repeats itself a few times and there you are."
Drawing a conclusion from these results of Vo~tik~s research Hruskova notes thab "addia-
tion to drugs does not signal only a serious disturbance in the psychology of the young
individual but also in the flznction of his environment." She concludes her article by saying;
"Is it not our conduct that is the cause of our child~s distracted state of mind that
tempts him to ~solve~ problems by means oY dream-like visions? [paragraph conti.nues] ~
"Do we know enough about the life of the young person growing up next to us whom we are
obliged to initiate unharmed into the full s$ream o� life? The fact that the problem is
not as pronounced in our country as in the capibali�t world does nob entitle us to close
our eyes to it. No matter how small the number of young people who have succumbed to
excessive use oP drugs may be, we ~mus~ nofy ignore the p~oblem. We must give up our ter~dency -
to indiPPerence, to sealing aurselves ofP in our own shell...and try to come to understand
our children, knaw how they are spending their leisure titae, without losing their confi-
dence. Otherwise a tsurprise~ might c~bch us unaware, and that would be too late�"
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BOLIVIA
BRIEFS
DRUG TRAFFIC ESTIMATES--La Paz, 31 Jul (TEI.AM)--According to the 1oca1
press, Interior Minister Luis Arce Gomez has blamed U.S. Preaident James
Carter for the increase of drug trafficking and for the growth in coc~ine _
outflow from Bolivia. According to the reports Luis Arce Gomez 3.s greatly
eoncerned over the suspension of U.S. aid to drug traffic and consump,tion
control. According to data disclosed by the local prsss, approximately
$400 million found their way into Bolivia from drug sales at the eud of
1979. This information is difficult to confirm but it caa 3e pro~resl that
there have been times when the unofficial exchange of the U.S. dollar ex-
perienced ups and downs of 2 Bolivian pesos (18 perceat) compared to the
official rate of exchange. [Excerpts] [PY312201 Bueaos Aires TELAM ia
Spanish 1745 GMT 31 Jul 80]
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BRAZIL
WEAPONS, MARIHUANA SMUGGLED FROM PARAGUAY SEIZED �
Rio de Janeiro JORNAL DO BRASIL in Portuguese 3 Jul 80 p 28
[Text] Drug division agents seized eight traffickers in maritiuane,
including Paraguayan citizen Silvio Gonzalez Aguello, identified as the
individual responsible for bringing iato Brazil 80 percent ot the maritiuana
, dispatched from Pedro Juan Caballero and coming from hia country. The
police seized aboLt 100 kilograms o~ mari~uana, 3 scales, 4 rifles,
~ 5 revolvers and a J.arge quantity of amQnun~tion.
The other drug traffickers arrested were Elias &odrigues dos Santos,
Janari Morais da Rocha, Jose Carlos Goncalves, Luis.Alberto Gomes da Silva
Neto, Josue Cere~o Goncalves, Aridio Gomes Medeiros, Aatonio Roberto
Barbosa da Silva and Vagner da Fatima da Silva. Antonio Marcio Di Biaggio, i
- alias Toninho Bacalhau or Toninho M~neiro, the contact between the Brazilian
drug traffickers and the Paraguayan, is being sought.
The investigation leading to the arrest of the gaag o~ traffickers has _
been going on for 2 months, since the police arrested drug addict
Gilberto Gomes da Silva, alias Bebeto, in Rocha. ti'hrough~him they were
led to Elias Rodrigues doe Santos, residing at 91 Barbosa da Silva Street
in Riachuelo.
Later the police arrested Antonio Roberto Barbosa da Si~va, alias
Antonio Sapo, who had replaced Elias as distributor of the m~r~ uana.
Yesterday, his partner, Josue Cerejo Goncalves, a residea~ a~ 1 Pxo~etada
Street, Lot 11, Block 9, in Praia do Canto, Sepetiba, was.arrested.
When the police arrived at his home, they found buis Alberto Gomes da Silva
Neto and the Paraguayan, Silvio Gonaalez Aguello, there to accept payment
for a lot of 800 kilograms which re~ched Rio oa 13 Juae in a specially
chartered wagon.
The police investigations extended to Rocha, Nilopolis, $anta Cru~,
Sepetiba, Nova Iguacu and Belford Roxo.
In these localities, the police seized 35 pacl~ets,of Indian hemp pxessed,
with honey, as it comes from Paraguay;�228 ~oiats of marihuaaa,,~~eady.~or
sale to addicts; plastic material for wrapping the drug and keeping i,t
dry; and several large sheets of wrapping paper.
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BRAZ IL
ONE HUNDRED KILOGRAMS OF MARIHUANA SEIZED IN NORTHERN ZONE
Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 28 Jun 80 p 18
[Text] Police agents from the 26th District arrested drug trafficker
Jose Carlos de Oliveira, alias Burro da Duda, in Engenho de Dentro yester- �
day afternoon. He is 36 and believed to be one of the largest distributors
of drugs in the northern zone, with sale outlets in Meier, Todos os Santos,
Lins de Vasconcelos and Engenho de Dentro. He was arrested in a room in
the building at 1869 Amaro Cavalcante Avenue, where police seized
100 kilograms of pressed Indian hemp, a scale, a saw and a shotgun.
The drug trafficker would not identify the source of the weed, saying only
that he bought it from a"backwoodsman." He said he sold the hemp at
8,000 cruzeiros per kilogram and that with that quantity he produced
250 cigarettes, which could then be sold at 100 cruzeiros each.
Burro da Duda, whose wife, Duda, is serving a sentence for trafficking in
drugs, said he had always worked in the numbers racket but went into drugs
about a year ago.
"It is easy to deceive the suckers and make a profit. No one sells the
pure stuff. Every ~oint is mixed with grass, manure or dried tomato leaves.
With 1 kilogram, 250 cigarettes or joints can be made."
The drug trafficker said that he dealt ~n he~p "wholesale" and that he
would have received 800,000 cruzeiros for the drug seized.
"But the `smoking outlets' (sale points) would charge much more, for they
collect 25,000 cruzeiros for each kilogram, at 100 per lot. They have
problems I do not have, they liave to pay insurance and for planes
(distributors)."
Arrest
- The investigation leading to the arrest of Burro da Duda began a month
ago, when Detective Paulo Arau~o arrested a drug trafficker named Sabara,
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who was invulveci ii~ the death of Uetective Inspector Elinto Pires. Sabara
identified the heavy dealers in the Central Brazilian area.
Pretending to be addicts, Detectives Jangada, Valmir and Neves succeeded
in getting close to the distributors and eventually discovered the place
where Burro da Duda was keeping his hemp suppJ.y.
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BRAZ IL
BRIEFS
COUNCII,MAN DRUG OFFENDER--The term of of�ice of Councilman
Renato Ramos da Silva, a former rIDB jBrazilian Democratic Movement] member
who has not yet joined another party, was suspended yesterday by the
Angra dos Reis ~Iunicipal Chamber. He wae arrested on 19 June for traf-
ficking in drugs, and a epectal commission ~co which the study of the case
was assigned has not yet reached a decision. The president of the chamber,
Orlando Soares Moreira, put tha suspension to a vote yesterday. Only two
council members, Artur Jordao Costa and Irene de Paiva Jordao, cast
negative votes. Renato Ramos da Silva is being held in Angra dos Reis on
the orders of Judge Nelson Caetano da Silva of that district. Late in the
� evening, after the board of directors of the Municipal ~hamber reached its
decision, there was a demonstration in the city, with a crowd applauding
the council members who voted for the suspension. Fireworks were set off
in the square in front of the building. Councilman Jorge Martins, of the
PP [Popular Party], wi11 fill the vacancy. [Text] [Rio de Janeiro JORNAL
DO BRASIL in Portuguese 27 Jun 80 p 22] 5157
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COLOMBIA
LARGE, MODERN COCAINE PROCESSING PLANT SEIZED
Bogota EL TIII~O in Spanish 31 May 80 pp 1-A, 12-A
[Article by Narciso C3stro Y.]
[Text] Cartagena, 30 May--A cocaine processing plant concealed inside an
industrial chemical plant near Mamonal has been discovered by the police _
and it is estimated that there are several tons of the hallucinog2n in it.
The operation took place yesterday at noon after an investigation by agents
of the Bolivar Division. All of the employees of the laborat4ry, including
the manager, were arrested.
A total of 12 persons were inside the installations of the Northern Chemical
Industry, Ltd. when a police major, accompanied by aeveral uniformed police- _
men, asked to make an inspection to detect the presence of contaminating
gases.
The drug was stored in cardboard drums and in bags in astonishing quantities
and in addition, ~0,000 tablets of inethaqualone and others known as "Yumbo"
were found.
The laboratory operated in a warehouse located at the center of a lot of
approximately one hectare on the highway leading to Mamoaal, across from
the San Carlos college. -
A modern machine brought from Taiwan for the manufacture of tablets was
also found in the yard behind the warehouse.
The general appearance of the Northern Chemical Industry installations did
not arouse suspicion but access to certain areas was restricted by a guard.
The managerial offices of the enterprise occupied a space adjacent to the
warehouse.
The economic value of the drug seized may exceed all calculations and the
impression is that this is the hardest blew that has been struck against
- drug trafficking. ,
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Under arrest at the F-2 of th~: puii.ce are Enrique Villureal Pi.:.ros, manager
of Northern Chemical Indust~-,�, Rafa~l Jimenez Marru~u, chemist, and the
following employees: Robin~~._ Uarc.~s Doria, Alvaro Famos Jimenez, Enrique
Alvarez Cervantes, Elvio Pa~~>r-~.ina uiaz, :+~aritza Doria, Norma Gulfo, Gustavo
Linan Macea, Alfredo Diaz rlercac'~ , tiarco Guerrero Gonzalez and Andres
Batista Palacio.
The authorities know that this enterprise be~an oper_ating about 12 years
ago but they have not detei-riined wi~etner t'r:e ~ccaine has been processed
there from the very begii~ning. One of the partners of the enterprisea,
Jorge Cuetter Ilelati, is being seught by the police.
The effectiveness of yesterday's operation was due in part to the cooperation
the neighborhood gave the police.
The Discovery
What led to the discovery of the drug was the nervousness of a chemist ~
working for the enterprise when he became aware of the presence of a police -
_ major who inquired about the possible escape of toxic gases.
_ As a precautionary measure, the police arrested everyone who was at that -
time on the premises and later interrogated them at the F-2 headquarters.
Some of the information obtained from the interrogations agrees with the
existing situation at Northern Chemical Industry, especially with regard to
the fact that many small empty boxes were going to be used in the packaging
of a product which upon examinaCion turned out to contain cocaine.
That product is methaqualone about which no further details are known in the
country, although its degree of toxicity is greater than that of the product
known as "Jumbo 7-14."
In the United States the DEA and other antinarcot~.cs groups search out
- methaqualone traffickers because they consider the damage it does to the
h~an body to be irreversible.
There is a possibility that in addition to the F-2 technicians, certain
_ foreign specialists may come to Cartagena to find o~it about the possible
international connections of the cocaine processing plant.
This morning a truck bearing license p~ate number TP-6252 was about to go
into the Northern Chemical industry installations transporting about 20
drums similar to those in the warehouse containing the drug, its occupants
apparently not aware of what had happened inside the installation. The
driver and the assistant were also arrested.
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Another Blo~a
1 ic~~ have .~e_'. -;0 ~.:s~s ui pr~ssed marihuana for export and arrested 10
persons on board a boat navigating the Magdalena River at Calamar. The
persons arrested are: Luis Alberto Figueroa Fernandez, Fernando Tovar
Barreto, Aquiles Rafael Celedon, Jorge Enrique Polo Garcia, Jose Manuel
Nieves Diaz, Victor Betancourt Qyola, Milton E~irique Polo, Baudilio Enrique
Gil, Wer~ceslao Cerpes Arce and Ja.ime Moron Payares.
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COLOMBIA
PUERTO WILCHES DRUG RING RAIDED
Large, Modern Labor atory
Bogota EL ESPECTADOR in Spanish 16 Jun 80 pp 1-A, 14-A
[Text] The Antinarcotics ~quad of the National Attorney General's Off ice
achieved 3 new and extraordinary victory in the f ight againat organiz ed
crime when it canfiscated 250 kg of cocaine and the equipment of a very
modern laboratory for processing the drug and captured a powerful ring of
drug traffickers among whom are two persons categorized as genuine "b ig
f ish" in that activity .
In Puerto Wilches
The successful operation was the result of several weeks of investigations
carried out by capab le investigators in various areas of the Santander
Department and came to a head yesterday at 1215 hours at La Esmeralda farm,
located in the jurisdiction of the municipality of Puerto Wilches, where the
laboratory was in operation and where the members of the criminal organiza-
tion were captured and the large shipment of cocaine confiscated. -
It was reported that the laboratory in question is one of the most modern
that has been discovered in thia country since it contained innumerab le
pieces of sophisticated apparatus which gave it the capability to produce
_ large quantities of cocaine of the highest quality. Among the pieces of
equipment conf iscated there were drying lamps, test tubes, filter pap er,
mixers, scales and nu~nerous receptacles f or acids and other chemicals used
in the refining of cocaine.
Also a P1ane
As was said before, 250 kg of cocaine ready to ~e transported by air to an
as yet undetermined spot were seized in the laboratory. It was to be
transporced by mear.s of a bimotor Piper located at a clandesiine airport
_ on the farm, which was the property of Jaime Gonzalez Jimenez aho has been
identif ied as the chi~f of the narcotics network.
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The Syndicate Members
The persons captured during the raid of the laboratory and of the clxndestine
airport were Jaime Forero Ospina, from Santa E1ena, Tc.~ima; Raul Herrera,
from Narino, Antioquia; Jesus Humberto Lemus Alcina, from Ocans, Norte de
Santander; Luis Carlos Carrillo, from Puerto Berrio, Antioquia; Pablo Arias,
from Tibana, Bocaya; Rodrigo de Jesus Gomez, from Tulua, Valle; Ben~amin
Ramirez, from Ambalema, Tolima, who ie said to be the proprietor of the
Hotel Anaconda in Leticia and who along with Jaime Forero Ospina was one
of the "big fish" of the drug traffic in the country; and Carlos Elkin
- Garcia Acevedo. '
To Barranca
~ The investigators of the Attorney General's Off ice yesterday were planning
to transfer the prisoners to the city of Barrancaberme~a to place them in
- the custody of the ~udge in charge of the inveatigation. Aa for the cocaine,
once ~he legal requirementa have been wet it will be destroyed.
It is worth mentioning that the Piper plane which was seized, along with
several motor vehicles, will remain in the government's possession and will
be used in the fight against drug trafficking. The clandestine airport,
where the plane was waiting for the shipment of cocaine, had ma~ern aaviga-
tional aids which shows how well organized the ~embers of the ring were.
Seized Trafficker Wae Fugi~tive
Bogota EL ESPECTADOR in Spanish 19 Jun 80 p 11-A
[TextJ New details on the long criminal record of GonZalo Jimenez Panesso,
one of the persone apprehended by the membere of the Narcotics Squad of the
- Office of the Attorney Geiieral in the cocaine processing laboratory dis-
covered at the La Esmeralda farm in Puerto Wilches, became knawn yesterday
to the staff of thia newspaper through sources connected with the investi-
gation.
- Jimenez Panesso had been a fugitive �rom ~ustice since October 1979 when
he escaped while on furlough from a~ail in the municipality of Turbo, the -
jurisdiction where he, along with other persoas, had been arrested for
poasession of 300 kg of cocaine. -
Sentenced to 3 and 1/2 Y ears
The drug traff icker--~who had also been in ~ail in Bogota for the same crime
in January 1976, when hP was arrested along with his brother German and
another person in possession of 30 kg of cocaine--was tried by a court in
Medellin for the case in Turbo and was sentenced, in absentia, to 3 and.l/2
years f.n prison, a term he will now have to serve in addition to that which
- was handed down for his activities at La Eameralda.
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Assassinated in Miami ~
It has also been learned that German J~nez Panesso, the brother of the
drug traff icker now in custody, was assassinated in the city of Miami
_ some time ago during the course of a"gang war," and that he was the pro-
prietor of La Esmeralda farm, the succession to which is therefore now in
litigation.
Gcnzalo Jimenez Panesso took advantage of the f act that he was German's
brother dnd had himself named guardian of his brother's children. He availed
himself of this to continue admin~.stering the estate and to ins*_all the
modern laboratory for the proceysing of cocaine which was raided a few days
ago by officials ~f the District Attorney's Off ice.
"Big Fish "
According to official sources, Jimenez Panesso, in addition to being the
proprietor of the Hotel Anaconda in Leticia, owns four modern businesses
at 59th Street and Highway 7 in Bogota and has been accused of the attempted
murder of Horacio Martinez, whom he wounded seriously in a f ight which took
place in Bogota.
Among the various drug traffickers apprehended at.the ~bvve-mentioned farm
in Puerto Wilches is Jaime Forero Ospfna, who transported from Let~.c~.a~:
the 250 kg of cocaine which were seized. For this p~ ~ose he had rented ~
the bimotor Piper which was seized at the f arm's clande:T~ine ~s.rport.
Forero Espina, who along with Jimenez Panesso 3s considered to be one of the
heads of the ring, is the owner of two elegant establishments in Bogota, one
of which is a bar called 2001 located in the northern part of the city.
These pErsons and the others apprehended are in the custody of the Puerto
tidilches Municipal Civil and Criminal Court Judge before whom they have
already begun to undergo qupstioning.
Businessman Cleared of Complicity
Bogota EL ESPECTADOR in Spanish 19 Jun 80 p 14-A
[Text] Jesus Humberto Lemus Alsina, whose arrest we reported in earlier
editions on the basis of information provided by the National Attorney
General's office, turned out to be completely innocent of involvement in
the activitiea of the ring of drug traff3ckers captured at the La Esmeralda
farm in Puerto Wilches in posseasion of 250 kg of cocaine.
Lemus Alsina, from Ocana, citizenship identification number 5,466,169 of
that city, is a well-known businessman who resides in Bucaramanga and is the
proprietor of a grain impart f irm having a branch in Medellin.
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The merchant had traveled to Puerto Wilches for the purpose of making a
deal on some heads of cattle and he was arrested while engaged in that
activity at the Santa Teresa f arm in the same municipality in Santander.
Once the investigators established his complete innocence Mr Lemus was
unconditionally released, after which he went to Bogota for the purpose of
arranging for appropriate clarification of the n~ws story in the various
newspapers which had given an account of hie un~ustified arrest.
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COLOMBIA
'CAR SNATCHERS' TRADE CARS FOR COCAINE
Bogota EL TIEMPO in Spanish 10 Jun 80 p 14-D -
[Text] An effective operation by the Automotive Group of the F-2 staff
resulted in the discovery of a factory for making false automobile license
plates which were sold to "car snatchers" who in turn exchanged stolen -
vehicles for cocaine.
The operation took place the weekend before last, when agents of the secret
agency apprehended Alfonso Bolivar Jaimes, owner of the license plate
"factory"; Hernan Vasquez, an employee there; and Francisco Javier Martinez,
a helper in the shop.
The factory was located at the Plaza de Espana, in downtown Bogota, where
the false plates were sold to middlemen at the price of 1,500 pesos for
a set, according to the F-2.
They, in turn, sold the plates to the "car snatchers" who attached them to
stolen cars and after "legalizing" the papers for the cars took them to ~
E1 Meta, Caqueta and Putumayo.
- There the criminals were in contact with the drug traffickers with whom
they exchanged the stolen cars for cocaine.
In addition to their dealings with the "car snatchers," the middlemen,
whom the F-2 has already identified, sold registration cards and other
false documents.
According to official reports the factory where the false license plates
were manufactured is located on the north side of Plaza de Espana.
It had a capability to produce 10 sets of plates daily and it was able to
change numbers and letters on them to perfection.
In the raid carried out by the Automotive Group of the F-2, the agents
seized five pairs of plates in the process of being falsified, special
sheets for the manufacture of plates, a suitcase with "punches" (equipment
for making the numbers and letters), a rasp, a die, a press and a large
quantity of paint.
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Recoveries
The F-2 reported that the above was the culmination of a long intelligence
operation for the purpose of reducing the high index of crimes related to