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 xk3m_indica
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 Air hostess found guilty of cocaine smuggling
#7163723 - 07/11/07 10:57 PM (1 year, 4 months ago) |
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http://www.news.com.au/mercury/story/0,22884,22057113-922,00.html
WHEN former Qantas hostess Suellen Cryer was busted with two bags of cocaine stuffed in her bra at Sydney airport, she claimed she smuggled the drugs to feed her addiction.
But yesterday a jury rejected her story and took less than three hours to find the mother-of-two guilty of importing a marketable quantity of cocaine.
Cryer, 54, admitted importing 136g of cocaine but pleaded not guilty - claiming she had been persuaded to bring home drugs by her supplier in LA so she could use it during her five-week holiday.
A self-confessed drug addict, Cryer said she had no intention of selling the drugs or any knowledge that anyone else intended to sell them.
But the jury heard drug dealing paraphernalia was found at the Bexley home Cryer shares with her youngest daughter and her husband.
Crown Prosecutor Matthew Bracks accused Cryer of drug dealing to bankroll a serious poker machine habit.
She was arrested at Sydney airport on March 13 last year when traces of cocaine were detected on her belongings.
Cryer protested her innocence but admitted to having two sausage-shaped bags of cocaine stuffed inside her bra when it became obvious she was to be searched.
The cocaine was found to be about 60 per cent pure - about twice the usual strength of street cocaine.
Police later searched her home where they found more high-grade cocaine, a box that had contained scales and supplies of resealable bags.
In Cryer's bedroom police found glucodin powder - which can be used to dilute cocaine - and three bags of the drug.
Giving evidence at her District Court trial, softly spoken Cryer identified one bag allegedly containing 7.2g of cocaine.
She claimed to have bought it from a fellow poker machine player called Sam at St George Leagues Club and admitted sticking a label to the bag which read: "Hope and David's wedding".
Crown Prosecutor Matthew Bracks asked Cryer if she had taken cocaine to the ceremony and sold it or distributed it.
But Cryer stated the bag had contained emergency safety and bobby pins on her eldest daughter Hope's wedding day a month before she was arrested.
Mr Bracks accused Cryer of putting on an act in court and accused her of lying about her daily use of the drug in order to claim the 136g haul was for personal use.
The jury rejected her claim that she was "lucky" on poker machines and used her winnings to pay for cocaine which she took to self-medicate for serious depression due to family problems.
Cryer was remanded and is to be sentenced at Parramatta Court on October 5.
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 baiseoner
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Re: Air hostess found guilty of cocaine smuggling [Re: xk3m_indica]
#7163932 - 07/11/07 11:24 PM (1 year, 4 months ago) |
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thas almost 5 ounces of coke...def not for personal use especially just during a 5 day period..thats a huge amount of coke i must say
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funnybunny
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Re: Air hostess found guilty of cocaine smuggling [Re: baiseoner]
#7163993 - 07/11/07 11:33 PM (1 year, 4 months ago) |
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It's five weeks, not five days.
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Re: Air hostess found guilty of cocaine smuggling [Re: xk3m_indica]
#7164002 - 07/11/07 11:34 PM (1 year, 4 months ago) |
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Even so an once a week is a large amount for 1 person. That would be over a ball a day for 35 days.
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Re: Air hostess found guilty of cocaine smuggling [Re: xk3m_indica]
#7164134 - 07/11/07 11:56 PM (1 year, 4 months ago) |
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It's easy enough to do a ball a day during a binge.
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illuminati
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Re: Air hostess found guilty of cocaine smuggling [Re: fastfred]
#7164159 - 07/12/07 12:00 AM (1 year, 4 months ago) |
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Man, if that woman tried to convince me that she was a coke addict, I would be like, damn, how much did you weigh before the coke binge?
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Re: Air hostess found guilty of cocaine smuggling [Re: fastfred]
#7164290 - 07/12/07 12:26 AM (1 year, 4 months ago) |
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Yeah but not for 35 days straight.
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so yeah:
- 'sex' five times
- once with a man
- once with a cadaver
- and thrice with actual women(all of which were prostitutes)
Best story ever!
www.panicstream.com
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Re: Air hostess found guilty of cocaine smuggling [Re: xk3m_indica]
#7164491 - 07/12/07 01:25 AM (1 year, 4 months ago) |
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Yeah, a ball-a-day 35 day bender would be pretty rough. 
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