Drug-runners Avoid Trap
I f.V.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright; SYDNEY, June 4. A trap set yesterday by the United States Narcotics Bureau and the Australian Customs Department has failed to catch a ring of international drugrunners based at Sydney. The smugglers used Sydney as a point from which to
ship drugs from Hong Kong intended for circulation in America. Sydney customs officers hoped to arrest the gang as they tried to smuggle 20oz of pure heroin off the Dutch liner Tjiluwah in Sydney harbour. The ship arrived at Sydney on Wednesday direct from Hong Kong. But when no move had been made by the smugglers late yesterday, customs officers seized the shipment, valued at £3200.
The heroin was found in the false bottom of a discarded whisky case in the engine room. It was in granulated form in 40 half-ounce plastic packages. Customs officers said it would be sold for much more than £4OOO to drug addicts. The biggest single heroin haul in Sydney was 2Jib from the Dutch liner Tjiwangi in November, 1962. A larger cache of 101 b was seized from another Dutch vessel, the Straat Cook, in Newcastle, last October.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30769, 5 June 1965, Page 15
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