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Drugs worth €1m seized in Dublin
Customs officers have seized cannabis and cocaine worth an estimated ¤1 million from a container at Dublin Port.
The drugs were detected by a Customs sniffer dog in a refrigerated 12m container, which had arrived in Dublin Port from Germany via Holyhead this morning.
A total of 75kg of cannabis resin, 25kg of herbal cannabis and 2.3kg of cocaine were seized during a search of the container.
A man in his 50s, was arrested and is being questioned in Store Street Garda station. He is a British national.
A Garda spokesman said enquiries were ongoing both nationally and internationally.
The drugs were detected by a Customs sniffer dog in a refrigerated 12m container, which had arrived in Dublin Port from Germany via Holyhead this morning.
A total of 75kg of cannabis resin, 25kg of herbal cannabis and 2.3kg of cocaine were seized during a search of the container.
A man in his 50s, was arrested and is being questioned in Store Street Garda station. He is a British national.
A Garda spokesman said enquiries were ongoing both nationally and internationally.
POLICE REPORT: Teen caution on cannabis possesion
A YOUTH has been dealt with under the Young Offenders Act after he was found in possession of cannabis at Narrabeen on Friday. The teen, 16, was sitting with three others in a parked car at Jamieson Park when police noticed the interior light was on. Police conducted a search of the vehicle and found a small amount of the drug.
Car puncher
A CROMER teenager was arrested by police after he was seen punching a parked car in Collaroy on Saturday night. The teen, 16, was earlier seen arguing with a person near Pittwater Rd at about 9.45pm. He was taken home by police and dealt with under the Young Offenders Act. Police say there was no obvious damage to the vehicle that was punched.
Charged at station
A MONA Vale woman is facing a range of charges after attempting to evade police at Pittwater Rd on Friday night. Police say the woman, 21, who had been at Mona Vale police station with her partner for another matter, had been drinking and attempted to leave the area in a car. She is alleged to have kicked police officers who tried to remove the woman from her vehicle. The learner driver was charged with mid-range drink driving, driving unaccompanied, assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest.
Odour a give-away
A DEE Why man, 19, has been issued a cannabis caution after he was found in possession of the drug while parked in a car at Warringah Aquatic Centre on Friday night. Police say they detected a strong smell of cannabis coming from the vehicle while on patrol in the area at 11.15pm. They found a small amount of the drug in the car.
Car puncher
A CROMER teenager was arrested by police after he was seen punching a parked car in Collaroy on Saturday night. The teen, 16, was earlier seen arguing with a person near Pittwater Rd at about 9.45pm. He was taken home by police and dealt with under the Young Offenders Act. Police say there was no obvious damage to the vehicle that was punched.
Charged at station
A MONA Vale woman is facing a range of charges after attempting to evade police at Pittwater Rd on Friday night. Police say the woman, 21, who had been at Mona Vale police station with her partner for another matter, had been drinking and attempted to leave the area in a car. She is alleged to have kicked police officers who tried to remove the woman from her vehicle. The learner driver was charged with mid-range drink driving, driving unaccompanied, assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest.
Odour a give-away
A DEE Why man, 19, has been issued a cannabis caution after he was found in possession of the drug while parked in a car at Warringah Aquatic Centre on Friday night. Police say they detected a strong smell of cannabis coming from the vehicle while on patrol in the area at 11.15pm. They found a small amount of the drug in the car.
Police uncover cannabis farm in Basildon
POLICE uncovered a makeshift drugs farm.
Officers were called to the house, in Matching Green, #Basildon, following reports of a strong smell of cannabis.
They raided the home, where they found a set-up of hydroponic equipment, including powerful lighting used to help grow the drug.
Officers seized 30 plants, which were later destroyed.
Police have not arrested anyone in connection with the drugs yet.
Insp Scott Cannon, of Pitsea police, said: “We will always act swiftly when we are made aware of drugs cultivation.
“We encourage members of the community to tell us when they think this may be going on in their area.
“Thanks to the action of my officers, these drugs won’t be hitting the streets of Pitsea.”
The drugs were discovered at about 3.15pm on Wednesday.
Officers were called to the house, in Matching Green, #Basildon, following reports of a strong smell of cannabis.
They raided the home, where they found a set-up of hydroponic equipment, including powerful lighting used to help grow the drug.
Officers seized 30 plants, which were later destroyed.
Police have not arrested anyone in connection with the drugs yet.
Insp Scott Cannon, of Pitsea police, said: “We will always act swiftly when we are made aware of drugs cultivation.
“We encourage members of the community to tell us when they think this may be going on in their area.
“Thanks to the action of my officers, these drugs won’t be hitting the streets of Pitsea.”
The drugs were discovered at about 3.15pm on Wednesday.
Police recover 250 cannabis plants in Heywood
Police have recovered 250 cannabis plants after raiding an industrial unit on Fox Street in Heywood.
Officers had been alerted after workers from the building's energy supplier had gone into the building to disconnect the electricity after an unpaid bill.
Officers raided the property shortly after 8.45am on 28 July 2011 and recovered approximately 250 cannabis plants, all of which were ready for harvest.
The farm is estimated to be worth around £150,000, including the value of the equipment.
Inquiries are now continuing to find the people responsible for the cannabis farm.
Sergeant Neil Killen from the Heywood Neighbourhood Policing Team said: “This was clearly a professionally run cannabis factory as there was a significant amount of specialist equipment that had been installed.
“The electricity supply had been illegally tampered with and colleagues from United Utilities were called out to make the electricity supply safe.
“PCSOs in the area have dropped off leaflets and have been on hand to address any concerns, in an effort to inform and reassure the local community.
“This is an excellent result that has taken more than a hundred thousand pounds worth of drugs out of circulation.
“If anyone has any information or has seen people coming and going from this address, please get in touch with police as your information could be vital to our investigation.”
Anyone with information or concerns about drug dealing in their area should call police on 0161 856 8587 or the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
Officers had been alerted after workers from the building's energy supplier had gone into the building to disconnect the electricity after an unpaid bill.
Officers raided the property shortly after 8.45am on 28 July 2011 and recovered approximately 250 cannabis plants, all of which were ready for harvest.
The farm is estimated to be worth around £150,000, including the value of the equipment.
Inquiries are now continuing to find the people responsible for the cannabis farm.
Sergeant Neil Killen from the Heywood Neighbourhood Policing Team said: “This was clearly a professionally run cannabis factory as there was a significant amount of specialist equipment that had been installed.
“The electricity supply had been illegally tampered with and colleagues from United Utilities were called out to make the electricity supply safe.
“PCSOs in the area have dropped off leaflets and have been on hand to address any concerns, in an effort to inform and reassure the local community.
“This is an excellent result that has taken more than a hundred thousand pounds worth of drugs out of circulation.
“If anyone has any information or has seen people coming and going from this address, please get in touch with police as your information could be vital to our investigation.”
Anyone with information or concerns about drug dealing in their area should call police on 0161 856 8587 or the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
Sale of synthetic cannabis restricted - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Sale of synthetic cannabis restricted - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
The Tasmanian Government has placed the synthetic cannabis known as Kronic on the state's poisons schedule but has not yet decided whether to make it illegal.
Kronic is said to be potentially 100 times stronger than marijuana and can produce extreme reactions including severe hallucinations, heart palpitations and psychosis.
Placing it on the poison's schedule restricts who can sell it and in what quantities.
Kronic induces the same feelings of relaxation and europhia as cannabis but it can't be detected on drug screening tests.
Western Australia has already made Kronic illegal and other states are considering the move.
Sunday 31 July 2011
Climate of fear as Mexican drug cartels rule roost
Terror digs ever-deeper into the lives of citizens as drug gangs prosper in a culture of impunity, writes MICHAEL McCAUGHAN
THE CASUALTY rate in Mexico’s drug war is higher than that of the US war in Afghanistan, leaving 40,000 dead in the past five years, mostly civilians. By comparison, an armed uprising in southeast Mexico in January 1994 resulted in 150 deaths yet prompted nationwide peace rallies, a speedy ceasefire and a national dialogue.
These days Mexicans pray that this endless war of unimaginable cruelty does not arrive at their doorstep.
The statistics fail to transmit the crippling fear which grips the living. In April, a family from Mexico City visited Acapulco and went into a restaurant. A bottle of whiskey appeared at their table.
“That man over there sent it,” said a waiter. A few minutes later the same man asked the father for permission to dance with his daughter, aged 15. The father refused. “Listen carefully,” the pushy stranger said, “this young woman is mine.”
The family left the restaurant, returned to their hotel, packed their bags and headed home. An hour later their car was intercepted and their daughter kidnapped. This story was one of 70 testimonies recounted at a massive peace rally in downtown Mexico in May (see sidebar).
Mexican president Felipe Calderón of the conservative National Action Party has responded to critics by comparing his crusade against the drug gangs to Winston Churchill’s wartime battle against the Nazis.
“We have might and right and the law on our side,” he said in a recent televised address, dismissing a public call for peace as a surrender to the drug cartels.
Calderón’s war on drugs has failed to produce results as the cartels have expanded from four to 12 and widened their targets to include migrants passing through Mexico. The country’s National Migration Institute has been implicated in the “sale” of captured migrants to gangs who demand ransom from terrified relatives.
In the past three years, 550 migration institute employees have been suspended for alleged abuses, some 15 per cent of the workforce. The cost of safe return can be up to $3,000, a golden business opportunity when 500,000 people cross the border between Guatemala and Mexico each year.
Mexico’s security forces lead the war on drugs but have been discredited by recent revelations.
Amnesty International has accused troops of torture, disappearances and murder, including charges of passing off innocent victims of army violence as members of drug gangs.
One in four police officers is allegedly tied to drug cartels and an estimated 10,000 people have simply “disappeared” – classed as neither alive nor dead, their whereabouts unknown. The escalating violence has seen citizens step back from social encounters, retreating into private worlds just as the Argentinian and Chilean people did during the dictatorship era.
The media has toned down its coverage of drug gangs, with some newspapers publicly calling on the cartels to advise them where to draw the line to prevent reprisals.
In Sinaloa state, 700 people have been killed this year and local police are accused of collaborating with the cartels.
Last month, beleaguered state officials banned restaurants and bars from playing narcocorridos, the popular ballads which extol the exploits of drug traffickers.
Twenty years ago, a previous government banned all songs with references to the drug trade from being aired on radio. Soon after Los Tigres del Norte, a popular local band, released an album, Corridos Prohibidos, which earned the band a platinum sales disc.
The governor of Sinaloa stepped on to the battlefield once more last month to declare war on Ralph Lauren polo shirts, the uniform of choice of the drug traffickers. The governor was “hugely worried” at the manner in which disaffected youth were seduced by the glamour of expensive brands, adding that he wished they would wear clothes with images of national heroes like Emiliano Zapata.
The irony of this will not be lost on the Zapatista movement in southeast Mexico which sparked a renaissance of Zapata’s ideals in 1994, demanding peace, justice and democracy. The government responded with tanks, warplanes and bullets.
The Calderón administration points to its successes in law enforcement with record drug seizures and arrests of suspects, but there is no corresponding sense of defeat of the powerful cartels.
Mexico’s crisis is fuelled by a number of factors beyond its control: the demand for illicit drugs in the US and the ease with which assault weapons are spirited across the US-Mexico border.
The flow of illicit money travels through global financial institutions, a reminder that the long-term solution lies beyond Mexico’s borders. Meanwhile Mexico’s embattled justice system has reached breakdown point, with 98 per cent of serious crimes going unpunished, fostering a culture of impunity.
In a measure approved by the US government this week, gunshop owners must report all purchases of two or more high- calibre weapons within five days.
However, Mexico’s drug gangs have had no difficulty acquiring weapons elsewhere in a region racked for decades by civil war and criminality.
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