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[Prickle]

POLICE are desperately searching for an innocent person who bought one of 53 shipping containers with drugs worth millions of dollars hidden inside.

Strike Force Garner has seized all but one of the containers since it began investigating a multinational syndicate that has operations in Australia.

Each container had 12-15kg of heroin or the precursor drug pseudoephedrine worth up to $3 million hidden in the frame.

All told, the total seizure has an estimated street value of $150 million.

Police seized 27 containers of the total consignment on December 22 from a storage yard in the Sydney suburb of Padstow.

Detectives believe the syndicate lost track of the remaining 26 containers, which were emptied of their legitimate cargo and sold as storage units to unsuspecting businesses and farms across NSW.

The Drugs Squad acting commander Steve Patton said police had recovered 25 of the 26 containers that were sold but one had been on-sold and was missing.


"They're often used as storage," Detective Acting Superintendent Patton said today.

"They can be used as offices, on worksites. Some people will use them when they're moving house."

The missing container was first bought by a man on the NSW far south and police believe it may still be in the area.

Detectives expect to make arrests related to the drugs seizure.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/breaking-news/police-search-for-missing-drugs-container/story-e6freonf-1226248385459

[Prickle]

HAHAHHA the Blue Gang are dealing

there just pissed they shouldnt have sold the container so cheap and want it back

Fucken thats a ripper

[Chops]

Now that's trippy..... 

[StomperMagoo]

heroin / OR / meth pre-cursor?

they don't know?  Was it to be a lucky dip at the Police Canteen... More good humour... hilarious!

[Prickle]

Drug container located on NSW south coast

NSW drug squad detectives have located a missing shipping container with drugs concealed inside as part of an ongoing investigation into a large-scale drug importation.

Officers attached to Strike Force Garner have been investigating a syndicate importing pseudoephedrine and other drugs concealed in shipping containers since December.

A police statement said the drugs were packed into rectangular metal boxes believed to be tea canisters which were then concealed within the internal structure of the shipping crates.

They said it appeared the syndicate somehow lost track of the containers, which were emptied of their legitimate cargo and sold as storage units to unsuspecting businesses and farms across the state, with the drugs still inside.

Earlier this month detectives appealed for information from the public in relation to one outstanding shipping container which they had tracked to the south coast.

About 3.30pm (AEDT) yesterday, police searched a container near Pambula, locating more than 11kg of pseudoephedrine concealed inside.

They said neither the container's owner, nor the company he had bought it from, were aware the drug was concealed inside.

Investigators had already seized about 540kg of pseudoephedrine from 53 containers in 22 locations across the state.

They estimated the amount of pseudoephedrine would be enough to make methylamphetamine, or "ice", with an estimated street value of about $150 million.

Officers also seized almost 75kg of ice valued at more than $40 million, and 15kg of heroin with a street value of more than $7.5 million.

Strike Force Garner was continuing its investigation and appealed for anyone with information that may assist the investigation to share it anonymously

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/drug-container-located-on-nsw-south-coast/story-e6frf7jx-1226255912203

[TOMCAT]

Bet the farmers fucking spewing .That little windfall would have got the banks off his back !!!

[SirCumference]

Heres a tip for ya strike force Garner....its probably your blokes importing it.