Criminology and Psychology

Insp Fryer said."Five kilograms of pure heroin equates to about 20kg on the street . . . that is hundreds of thousands of hits," he said. Australian police have smashed a drug trafficking syndicate and seized heroin worth $A9 million ($NZ11.5 million) destined for Melbourne's streets. Officers in Sydney swooped on a 59-year-old Footscray woman carrying 700 grams, or two blocks of high-grade heroin, as she got on a train bound for Melbourne on Saturday night. The arrest led to a raid on a house in Burnside, in Melbourne's west, on Monday where police arrested three family members accused of being ringleaders of the syndicate.Investigators seized 5kg of heroin, with an alleged wholesale value of $A million and street value of $A9 million, 1.5kg of the illegal drug ice and cash, drug taskforce boss Inspector Doug Fryer told reporters.Police allege the syndicate paid couriers to travel to South-East Asia and return with heroin concealed inside their bodies. Drugs were als...

The $7.75 million worth of dope was going to be smuggled out of Pearson by ramp workers with links to the gangs, police say.Crime gangs in the GTA were to be the final stop for 300 kilos of pot and hash seized on two flights from Jamaica at Pearson airport, the RCMP says. Eight drug-filled duffel bags were found March 13 by crew off-loading a plane, said Patrizia Giolti, of the Canada Border Services Agency. The seizure wasn't made public until yesterday as officers were hoping to run down the smugglers. The bags contained 41 bricks of marijuana weighing over 95 kilos, and 65 bricks of hashish and hash oil weighing over 98 kilos, Giolti said. Later that day there was a second bust after Mingo, a drug detector dog, led officers to four pieces of baggage that contained 69 kilos of pot, 46 kilos of hashish and a kilo brick of cocaine. "There were no addresses or labels on the bags," Giolti said yesterday. "The drugs were found wrapped in cellophane." Airport offic...

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Police have seized 1.5 kilograms of heroin from a Tajik national in the town of Lyubertsy southeast of Moscow, a Moscow Region police spokesman said on Sunday. The narcotics were discovered in a hiding place in an apartment rented by an unemployed Tajik national, the spokesman said. Most of the heroin and hashish coming into Russia originates in Afghanistan and is then trafficked into the country through the former Soviet republics of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Most of the drugs are then sold in Russia's largest cities, or shipped onto Europe. The Federal Drugs Control Service said earlier that Russian drug control officers have seized some 500 kg (1,100 lbs) of heroin since the beginning of the year, up 70% year-on-year.

Two B.C. men are facing charges after being pulled over in a truck carrying $3.5-million in cocaine, U.S. media are reporting.The men were pulled over in California between the towns of Barstow and Victorville, about 150 kilometres northeast of Los Angeles. Police noticed their truck bed appeared shallower than it should be.Police seized the vehicle, and used a fork lift to remove the truck bed. They discovered an elaborately hidden stash of powdered cocaine totalling 68 kilograms with a street value local police think to be about $3.5-million.The B.C. men are in their 20s, according to the report.

53-year-old man has been arrested at Prestwick Airport on suspicion of trying to smuggle a quantity of cocaine into the country. The man was stopped by officers from the UK Border Agency on Tuesday night after he got off a flight from Spain. Police were called after he was found to be in possession of drugs, believed to be cocaine, with an estimated street value of £60,000. The man was expected to appear at Ayr Sheriff Court on Wednesday.

Roman Vidal, 57, allegedly smuggled millions of dollars in black market cigarettes through the Port of Miami on behalf of European gangs --- including the Real IRA, which has claimed responsibility for an attack on a four soldiers waiting for a pizza delivery.The brutal killings -- which included execution shots to wounded victims lying on the ground -- threaten to derail the peace process in Northern Ireland, with one Protestant leader warning that it might signal a return to the "bad old days where people are being killed in open air gun attacks."Vidal fronted a freight company that imported millions of cigarettes from Panama, hid them under wood flooring and insulation in freighters at the Port of Miami and then sent them to gangs in Dublin, according to the complaint. He's been charged with four counts of federal wire and mail fraud.An informant tipped Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in Miami to Vidal's scheme in Feb. 2006, and agents began watching ...