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 veggie
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 [CAN] RCMP seize 5.7 tons hashish, 2,900 liters GBL in two busts 
#15803436 - 02/13/12 01:55 PM (3 months, 14 days ago) |
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Nearly $120M in drugs, including hash, seized in 2 busts: RCMP
February 13, 2012 - citytv.com
Nearly $120 million worth of hashish and a chemical used to make the so-called date rape drug were seized at Pearson International Airport in two separate busts, the RCMP says.
RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson outlined the massive seizures at a news conference on Monday.
The first bust happened after an RCMP liaison officer in Central Asia tipped colleagues off to a large shipment of hash headed to Canada last summer. The 5.7 tons of the drug was hidden in more than 500 hollowed-out wooden boards, each containing 10 kilograms of hash, Paulson said.
The illegal shipment, which originated in Afghanistan and had an estimated street value of $69 million, was seized at Pearson after it had travelled through several countries, including Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Kazakhstan and Germany.
Five men were charged in Canada and another was charged overseas, although police didn’t say where.
In a separate bust that happened at Pearson on Jan. 25, officers with the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) seized 2,900 litres of gamma-Butyrolactone (GBL).
“This seizure is enough precursor to produce approximately 4.8 million doses of the date rape drug with an estimated value of $48 million,” Paulson said.
The chemical arrived in Toronto on a flight from China in boxes containing 25-litre drums labelled as kitchen grease remover.
Last weekend, three GTA men were arrested in connection to that bust.
Paulson described these arrests and drug seizures as prime examples of “core policing.”
“Gathering evidence, putting dope in the locker, catching crooks, and putting them before the courts — that’s the RCMP Canadians take pride in and that’s the RCMP Canadians expect,” he said.
Paulson also stressed the importance of the federal force’s partnerships with international agencies.
“We recognize that our country is increasingly interconnected with the rest of the world and that we must look beyond our borders to where the threats originate,” he said.
News of these busts came after the RCMP and CBSA announced they’d seized 20 kilograms of cocaine hidden in hollowed-out fruit in a shipment that arrived at Pearson from Guyana earlier this month. Four people from the GTA were charged.
The investigation into drug smuggling using fruit started when the RCMP seized a marine container in Saint John, N.B., in August with 19 kilograms of cocaine found in hollowed-out pineapples. Months later, authorities also seized 115 kilograms of marijuana at the Windsor-Detroit border that was hidden in a shipment of watermelon on two trucks.
Police said those cases had ties to Jamaica, Costa Rica and the United States
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 Phenom
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Re: [CAN] RCMP seize 5.7 tons hashish, 2,900 liters GBL in two busts [Re: veggie]
#15803674 - 02/13/12 02:48 PM (3 months, 14 days ago) |
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What's the point of importing any marijuana-based product into Canada, from a monetary standpoint that is?
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shroomer17
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Re: [CAN] RCMP seize 5.7 tons hashish, 2,900 liters GBL in two busts [Re: Phenom]
#15803968 - 02/13/12 03:47 PM (3 months, 14 days ago) |
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Well that much hash would require tens (or hundreds) of thousands of plants to produce... I'm sure its still much cheaper and safer to produce that many plants in somewhere like Afghanistan than it is to produce it here where we have police constantly on the lookout for large outdoor gardens. Even though the product got seized this time, i'm sure MANY similar shipments have successfully gone through, and the foreigners who produced and shipped the hash are likely still free from incarceration.
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redeyesmj
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Re: [CAN] RCMP seize 5.7 tons hashish, 2,900 liters GBL in two busts [Re: shroomer17]
#15804030 - 02/13/12 03:58 PM (3 months, 14 days ago) |
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Thats alot of hash
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mylfgur
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Re: [CAN] RCMP seize 5.7 tons hashish, 2,900 liters GBL in two busts [Re: redeyesmj]
#15805161 - 02/13/12 07:02 PM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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I don't even know what I would do with 5.7 tons of hashish. Build a house maybe. Then accidentally catch it on fire.
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Blindtheeye
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Re: [CAN] RCMP seize 5.7 tons hashish, 2,900 liters GBL in two busts [Re: mylfgur]
#15805319 - 02/13/12 07:26 PM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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what have we learned ...?
people want to get high, and will do so even when told "they can't"
what's the solution ...?
declare war on drugs and spread misinformation until ignorance and casualties make us forget about getting high
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em_bre_O
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Re: [CAN] RCMP seize 5.7 tons hashish, 2,900 liters GBL in two busts [Re: Phenom]
#16003093 - 03/27/12 09:57 AM (2 months, 2 days ago) |
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Quote:
Phenom said:
What's the point of importing any marijuana-based product into Canada, from a monetary standpoint that is?
easier to move into usa
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aperson444
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Re: [CAN] RCMP seize 5.7 tons hashish, 2,900 liters GBL in two busts [Re: em_bre_O]
#16003262 - 03/27/12 10:35 AM (2 months, 2 days ago) |
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I'm surprised no one is running large scale GHB labs these days (vs smuggling in large amounts of GBL). It's actually surprisingly easy to synthesize from certain health supplements.
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JoeMama1992
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Re: [CAN] RCMP seize 5.7 tons hashish, 2,900 liters GBL in two busts [Re: aperson444]
#16008486 - 03/28/12 11:21 AM (2 months, 1 day ago) |
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“We recognize that our country is increasingly interconnected with the rest of the world and that we must look beyond our borders to where the threats originate,” he said.
So we're gonna send teams overseas to destroy other peoples crop? Bitches.
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