Chemist burglaries rise
A cut in the supply of opium in Christchurch because of police raids has pushed up the number of chemist shop burglaries
since the beginning of July. Detective Senior-Ser-geant Paul Johnstone, of the drug squad, said there had been 17 buglaries of pharmacies, doctors’ surgeries and cars since a big number of arrests on July 3 had cut supplies of opium. During June there were only about five similar burglaries, he said. Pharmacies and doctors did not store narcotics and this suggested that the offenders were des-
perate for whatever they could get, said Detective Senior-Sergeant Johnstone. “Breaking in is usually fairly futile,” he said. However, the police suspect the 200,000 Panadeine tablets stolen from Sterling Pharmaceuticals N.Z., Ltd, late in June have been made into homebake morphine and sold. "Our intelligence suggests that it has all gone,” he said.
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