新州警方查获价值4000多万澳元的大麻，并逮捕14人。
这是50年来最大的一次缉毒行动。
新州警局犯罪指挥部的毒品和枪支稽查分队以及澳大利亚犯罪情报局（Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission）于2019年11月成立了一个特别部门Strike Force Harthouse，以调查整个新州大麻的供应链。
经过1年的调查，终于在上周四和周五两天，州级侦探以及当地警方展开联合行动在新州各地执行搜查逮捕。
位于Minimbah, Melinga和Moorland地区的物业被警方突袭，14人被捕，13353株大麻被查获。
警方周四逮捕了6位越南籍男子，包括一名31岁澳洲永久居民和一位41岁非法居留者。 其他4名男性分别为23，27，38和44岁，持有学生签证或者过桥签证。 他们被带至Taree警察局接受讯问，稍后被控犯有严重的毒品罪行。
第二天又有8名越南籍男子在突袭中被捕。 其中三个分别为24、23和22岁，属于非法居留，另有4人分别是22、27、24和23岁，持有学生签证和过桥签证。 剩下一个31岁的是澳大利亚永久居民。
新州警察毒品和枪支稽查分队总指挥John Watson探长说，这是该州历史上最大的一起扫毒行动。
他说：“在两天内，我们逮捕了14名违法者，缴获了13000多植物，毒品市值估计超过4000万澳元。”
新州警察局副局长Stuart Smith表示，逮捕将对其他犯罪集团产生连锁反应。
他说：“在ACIC（澳大利亚犯罪情报局）的一项评估中，犯罪集团利用大规模的大麻种植获得资金，并将其再投资到其他犯罪活动中，例如洗钱，制造违禁药品，以及移民欺诈等等。”
所有被逮捕的嫌犯都关押于Taree地方法院并拒绝保释。
新州警察和紧急服务局局长David Elliott表示，这些被指控的罪犯毫不关心社区。
Elliott先生强调：“新州警方出色的工作将使数百万人脱离罪犯的控制，极大确保我们社区的安全。”
“我们知道这些犯罪集团毫不关心社区，新州政府将继续支持警方的灭罪行动。”
编译来源： DAILY TELEGRAPH
原文链接： https://www.dailytelegraph.com.a ... 130e4a6f74e1af6e05a
Police have seized more than $40 million dollars worth of cannabis and arrested 14 people in one of the largest busts of the drug in 50 years.
NSW Police State Crime Command’s drug and firearms squad and the Australian Crime Intelligence Commission created Strike Force Harthouse to investigate the growing and supply of cannabis across NSW in November 2019.
After an almost year-long investigation, state crime detectives and local police executed search warrants last Thursday and Friday in regional NSW.
Properties in Minibah, Melinga and Moorland were raided with 14 people arrested and 13,353 cannabis plants seized.
Police arrested six men, all Vietnamese nationals, including a 31-year-old man who is a permanent resident and a 41-year-old man who is illegally in Australia.
The other men, aged 23, 27, 38 and 44, were in the country on student and bridging visas.
They were questioned at Taree Police Station before being charged with serious drug offences.
Another eight Vietnamese men were arrested in raids the next day.
Three of these, aged 24, 23 and 22, were illegally in the country. While the remaining four of the men, 22, 27, 24 and 23 were on student and bridging visas.
The final man, 31, was an Australian permanent resident.
NSW Police drug and firearms squad commander Detective Superintendent John Watson said this was one of the largest in the nation’s history.
“Over the two days, 14 offenders were arrested, and more than 13,000 plants were seized with an estimated street value of over $40 million,” he said.
NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Stuart Smith said the arrests will have a knock-on effect to impact other criminal groups.
“In an operational assessment by the ACIC, criminal syndicates like the one we will allege is behind this operation, will take the funds made from large-scale cultivation in cannabis and reinvest it into other criminal enterprises such as money laundering, manufacture of prohibited drugs like ‘ice’ and immigration fraud,” he said.
“The significance of the arrests and seizures made under Strike Force Harthouse, stretch far beyond the cannabis trade, it impacts the revenue made by these criminal groups to invest in other organised crime that places the community’s safety and way of life under constant risk.
“This is why the disruption and dismantling of organised crime is such a priority for NSW Police and we will continue to be dogged in our pursuit of those involved to put them before the courts.”
All of the men were refused bail in Taree Local Court and their visas have been referred to the department of home affair
NSW Police and Emergency Services Minister David Elliott said the alleged criminals had no regard for the community.
“This remarkable work by the NSW Police Force will keep millions out of the hands of criminals, which will go a long way to keeping our communities safe,” Mr Elliott said.
“We know these criminal groups have no regard for the community and the NSW Government will continue to support NSW Police to shut down their operations at all levels.”
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多扫扫吧！
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大麻，比煙酒危對身體害還小，算毒品嗎？
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比烟酒危害小？
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希望警方扫毒力度再大一点，很多区藏污纳垢的厉害
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幸好不是鸡国来人作奸犯科
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现在从美加是传来这种说法，基本是偷换概念，例如每天一支大麻烟和每天一瓶烈性酒比那边死人多
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喝酒高兴了最多啤酒换白酒。
大麻抽舒服了海洛因冰毒可就跟着上来了。
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禁毒不容半点马虎。
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还真不是，在中国的大麻圈子跟毒品圈子重合，，在国外分的还是挺清楚
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千万别瞎传播无知的信息
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我就只关心，这4千万，查收了之后，有办法变成钱，再当福利给大家发一发吗？还是只能一把火烧了？
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太多了，应该多查查出租屋
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多扫几次应该不止那么多把
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