News Smuggler packs 200 pounds of meth into PC cases, gets busted — Australian Border Force foil drug smuggling plot

[Admin]

Earlier this month, the Australian Border Force (ABF) found 100kg of methamphetamine hidden inside a consignment of imported PC tower cases. This week, after all the contraband had been removed, the ABF and Australian Federal Police (AFP) arrested a 45-year-old Malaysian man when he allegedly accepted delivery of the imported cases.

Smuggler packs 200 pounds of meth into PC cases, gets busted — Australian Border Force foil drug smuggling plot : Read more

 

[Pierce2623]

Wait, so the dude never touched the dope but the laws allow him to be arrested because it was in a package sent to him? I’m no drug smuggler but I may just avoid Australia if their laws make it that easy for the government to screw people.

 

[kealii123]

would have been more profitable to smuggle a100s in there

 

[USAFRet]

Wait, so the dude never touched the dope but the laws allow him to be arrested because it was in a package sent to him? I’m no drug smuggler but I may just avoid Australia if their laws make it that easy for the government to screw people.

FTA:
"The foolhardy smuggler appears to have had his partner(s) in crime ship a consignment of at least 12 boxes packed with tower PC cases, which were in turn stuffed with illicit packages."

 

[Loadedaxe]

Wait, so the dude never touched the dope but the laws allow him to be arrested because it was in a package sent to him? I’m no drug smuggler but I may just avoid Australia if their laws make it that easy for the government to screw people.

Did you read the article?

 

[80251]

Wait, so the dude never touched the dope but the laws allow him to be arrested because it was in a package sent to him? I’m no drug smuggler but I may just avoid Australia if their laws make it that easy for the government to screw people.

Whether or not the recipient was involved in smuggling the drugs is up to a jury to decide. Sending illegal, dangerous, addictive narcotics through the mail/parcel services is nothing new, although most savvy drug traffickers don't utilize their own name or address as the recipient.

 

[Sluggotg]

Makes for some rather "Speedy" Computers.........

(Total groaner but I had to say it).

 

[Notton]

The X-rays images make it obvious there's something in there.
If it weren't immediately obvious the cases would be too heavy to begin with.

I wonder why the smugglers thought they wouldn't get caught?

 

[USAFRet]

I wonder why the smugglers thought they wouldn't get caught?

Nobody said they were smart.

But, seeing as drug smuggling goes on every day, all across the planet....they're just playing the percentages.
10x success vs 1x fail.

 

[newtechldtech]

This could be a set up ... all know that XRAYS will discover them the way they were packaged ...

 

[subspruce]

This could be a set up ... all know that XRAYS will discover them the way they were packaged ...

yeah a ton could have passed through if this was a trap