27 April 2013

Flynn smack bust

27 April 2013 | By johnboy

ACT Policing has arrested and charged a 50 year-old man following the execution of a number of Drugs of Dependence Act search warrants yesterday afternoon (Friday, April 26).

At approximately 2.15pm police intercepted a vehicle on Coppins Crossing bridge in the ACT. A search was undertaken and police located and seized a small amount of heroin along with approximately $6500 cash.

Later that afternoon members of ACT Policing’s Criminal Investigations team executed a further search warrant on a house in Flynn at around 5.15pm. A search of the premises located a quantity of heroin along with approximately $30 000 cash. A the completion of the search warrant a 50 year-old-man was taken into custody.

Police also executed another two search warrants on premises in Dunlop and Florey where other evidentiary material was seized.

Police estimate that the heroin seized during the search warrants has a potential street value of approximately $80 000.

The alleged offender was conveyed to the ACT Watch House and charged with drug trafficking. He will face the ACT Magistrates Court today where police will be opposing bail.

[Courtesy ACT Policing]

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thebrownstreak694:26 pm 29 Apr 13

DrKoresh said :

thebrownstreak69 said :

Alderney said :

… and overdoses would plummet.

Who are we to stand in the way of Darwin’s work?

Social Darwinism is an idea that was developed well after Darwin himself died. It’s much closer to the idea of Eugenics and it’s a terrible smear on the man’s name that Darwin’s name is attached to it instead of somebody more appropriate, like an Austrian-born 20th Century dictator without getting too specific.

Eugenics is a very interesting concept.

DrKoresh3:36 pm 29 Apr 13

thebrownstreak69 said :

Alderney said :

… and overdoses would plummet.

Who are we to stand in the way of Darwin’s work?

Social Darwinism is an idea that was developed well after Darwin himself died. It’s much closer to the idea of Eugenics and it’s a terrible smear on the man’s name that Darwin’s name is attached to it instead of somebody more appropriate, like an Austrian-born 20th Century dictator without getting too specific.

thebrownstreak693:20 pm 29 Apr 13

Alderney said :

… and overdoses would plummet.

Who are we to stand in the way of Darwin’s work?

Ben_Dover2:51 pm 29 Apr 13

Alderney said :

If the government sold the stuff there’d be no market for the dead-sh$#’s to exploit.

Oh god, government standard issue drugs? No Thanks.

Try some Govvy E’s they will make you feel like voting, or Giovvy LSD, you’ll think Tony Abbot is a real person, smoke Govvy Weed, it makes you sit up straight and go to work.”

Alderney1:50 pm 29 Apr 13

If the government sold the stuff there’d be no market for the dead-sh$#’s to exploit.

That and crime and overdoses would plummet.

Let’s see, law and order and courts savings, medical savings and a boost to productivity. And that’s just for starters.

A win for governmental purse strings in these constrained fiscal times.

And don’t trot out that old chestnut where society would go to hell in a hand basket. People are no more likely to touch the stuff if regulation/legalised than they ever were. I’ve never been compelled despite many opportunities.

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd11:59 am 29 Apr 13

Tooks said :

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :

Tooks said :

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :

Awesome work coppers. Why not do this more often instead of wasting huge time and money on weed.

They’d spend a hell of a lot more time and money investigating petrol drive-offs. Possibly the most preventable crime ever.

Is that a big thing? Don’t really here about it much.

It’s very common. My point – which another poster missed completely – is that the investigation of cannabis related offences generally isn’t that time consuming or expensive, whereas much lesser crimes such as petrol thefts are.

That heli can’t be cheap to run.

dungfungus9:42 am 29 Apr 13

Tooks said :

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :

Awesome work coppers. Why not do this more often instead of wasting huge time and money on weed.

They’d spend a hell of a lot more time and money investigating petrol drive-offs. Possibly the most preventable crime ever.

Petrol drive-offs can easliy by prevented by re-introducing “pay in advance” which worked well in the 1970’s.

PBO9:24 am 29 Apr 13

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :

Awesome work coppers. Why not do this more often instead of wasting huge time and money on weed.

Cause that kid we all heard about in school who stepped on a used pot needle and caught the plague was a cops kid……..

But well done Police, get that crap off our streets.

Tooks1:16 am 29 Apr 13

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :

Tooks said :

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :

Awesome work coppers. Why not do this more often instead of wasting huge time and money on weed.

They’d spend a hell of a lot more time and money investigating petrol drive-offs. Possibly the most preventable crime ever.

Is that a big thing? Don’t really here about it much.

It’s very common. My point – which another poster missed completely – is that the investigation of cannabis related offences generally isn’t that time consuming or expensive, whereas much lesser crimes such as petrol thefts are.

Tooks1:12 am 29 Apr 13

fabforty said :

Tooks said :

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :

Awesome work coppers. Why not do this more often instead of wasting huge time and money on weed.

They’d spend a hell of a lot more time and money investigating petrol drive-offs. Possibly the most preventable crime ever.

Yes. Preventable by petrol station owners having CCTV cameras that actually work to assist police in identifying the driver and the vehicle. Also, if the offenders car had stolen number plates (which is the norm) what exactly do you expect the police to do ?

To compare petrol drive-offs to the extensive destruction of lives and families by drugs is simply moronic.

Well done AFP on this one.