Category: drug traffic

Traffickers Using Amazon to Ship Meth to Australia

November 17, 2022
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Methamphetamine has been discovered stashed away in decorative stones awaiting shipment to Australia from Amazon’s San Diego hub. The decorative stones, normally used for gardens and model railways, was concealed in packaging labelled “ornamental stones,” according to U.S. federal agents. Amazon and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) found at least five Amazon vendor accounts using the…

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Record $1.6 Billion of Illegal Drug ‘Ice’ Seized at Australia Border

August 26, 2022
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Australian police have uncovered a massive haul of the illegal drug “ice” at a Sydney port, worth A$1.6 billion (US$1.1 billion) on the street, the most significant detection of its kind in the country.  Australian Border Police in July examined a number of sea cargo containers that arrived at Port Botany in Sydney.  They found…

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