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 Sheepish
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 2500 arrests in NZ-wide drug busts 
#16545680 - 07/17/12 06:42 PM (9 months, 27 days ago) |
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10820409
More than 2,500 people have been arrested in cannabis operations in the past six months, police have revealed.
Police said they have seized and destroyed more than 130,000 cannabis plants and over 280 kilograms of dried cannabis in two six-month long, nationwide operations targeting cannabis growers and dealers.
Operation National targeted targeted indoor growers and cannabis dealers operating out of houses, while Operation Kelly involved aircraft searching for crops during the cannabis growing season.
Combined, the operations resulted in 2,573 arrests.
Police found 280kg of plant material, valued about $5.6 million and destroyed 130,385 plants and seedlings. The potential street value of the plants and seedlings at maturity is up to $130 million.
Other drug seizures included 1.4kg of methamphetamine, 321 LSD tabs and 4150 ecstasy pills. There were also 327 firearms and $675,533 in cash seized from drug houses.
Police manager of covert operations Detective Inspector Paul Berry said growers and dealers will be hard hit by the operations.
"When you put the two lots of results together - both Operation National and Operation Kelly - that is a significant disruption to the supply chain", Mr Berry said.
"More importantly, we have prevented millions of dollars' worth of harm by getting these drugs and the offenders off the streets."
Fourteen residential properties (valued about $4.6 million), eight cars (worth about $240,000), nine bank accounts (worth $353,000), a boat worth about $40,000, and bonus bonds and shares worth about $22,000 were restrained by police under the Criminal Proceeds Recovery Act.
"Police recognise that cannabis continues to be a major issue for New Zealanders and causes widespread harm to the community through health issues caused by addiction and related crime such as thefts and burglary," Mr Berry said.
"A recent UN report highlighted New Zealand's consumption of cannabis, putting us amongst the highest users in the world.
"We remain committed to disrupting the business end of illicit drugs - that means targeting the growers and the dealers."
"We know that organised criminal groups are heavily involved in the cannabis trade and targeting the supply chain directly impacts on their ability to operate successfully," Mr Berry said.
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Fourteen residential properties (valued about $4.6 million), eight cars (worth about $240,000), nine bank accounts (worth $353,000), a boat worth about $40,000, and bonus bonds and shares worth about $22,000 were restrained by police under the Criminal Proceeds Recovery Act.
Only the cops are allowed to brag about their list of stolen goods in the papers. What a joke.
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 Re: 2500 arrests in NZ-wide drug busts [Re: Sheepish]
#16545703 - 07/17/12 06:47 PM (9 months, 27 days ago) |
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Looks like New Zealand will be drug free within the decade. 
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Sheepish
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Re: 2500 arrests in NZ-wide drug busts [Re: Gilgamesh18]
#16545713 - 07/17/12 06:49 PM (9 months, 27 days ago) |
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Haha, yep. And smokefree by 2025 they reckon! Pfft.
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 awakenthesuffering
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Re: 2500 arrests in NZ-wide drug busts [Re: Sheepish]
#16545969 - 07/17/12 07:32 PM (9 months, 27 days ago) |
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haha pig shits didnt get me (knocks on wood)
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supernovasky
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Haha. Are drug laws bad in New Zealand? I always pictured them being a lax country about, well, everything.
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DebuteMachine
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Re: 2500 arrests in NZ-wide drug busts [Re: supernovasky]
#16546352 - 07/17/12 08:51 PM (9 months, 27 days ago) |
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That is so much money, instead they destroy all the potential of it. 
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iNDUCT
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Re: 2500 arrests in NZ-wide drug busts [Re: DebuteMachine]
#16546502 - 07/17/12 09:21 PM (9 months, 27 days ago) |
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Hahaha, I love being a kiwi...
They're fighting a losing war, half the population here smokes weed 
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Hidden Woods
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Re: 2500 arrests in NZ-wide drug busts [Re: iNDUCT]
#16546641 - 07/17/12 10:10 PM (9 months, 27 days ago) |
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It was an excuse to get the assets.
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SubMuncher
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Re: 2500 arrests in NZ-wide drug busts [Re: Sheepish]
#16547374 - 07/18/12 01:25 AM (9 months, 27 days ago) |
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I think its funny how they think this changes how easy it is to get weed here. I have noticed it's harder to get pills here in the last week or two, but hopefully this will make people start bringing in mdma instead of rcs. I have heard so many pill dealers saying there pills have legal stuff in it and you can smell the chemicals (4mec and mephedrone type smell) in them which is illegal here. Then they get arrested thinking its legal.
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xthrx
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Re: 2500 arrests in NZ-wide drug busts [Re: SubMuncher]
#16547571 - 07/18/12 02:23 AM (9 months, 27 days ago) |
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I really dont think anything has got harder to get and powders/pills of all sorts are very very common now.
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Lord_McLovin
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Re: 2500 arrests in NZ-wide drug busts [Re: xthrx]
#16549128 - 07/18/12 01:14 PM (9 months, 26 days ago) |
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Quote:
Haha. Are drug laws bad in New Zealand? I always pictured them being a lax country about, well, everything.
There's almost no crime in NZ, that's why the pigs have nothing better to do than busting pot smokers.
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thirtygoats
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Re: 2500 arrests in NZ-wide drug busts [Re: Sheepish]
#16550885 - 07/18/12 08:07 PM (9 months, 26 days ago) |
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The drug war is meant to be continuous... if you can't control drugs in a maximum security prison, how do you control drugs in a free society?
They're just ruining people's lives over something that's less harmful than coffee... I wish a virus would be invented that killed stupid people like these drug warriors
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Re: 2500 arrests in NZ-wide drug busts [Re: Lord_McLovin]
#16551944 - 07/18/12 11:52 PM (9 months, 26 days ago) |
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No crime, country with the most pot smokers. Hmmmmmmmm.
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awakenthesuffering
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Re: 2500 arrests in NZ-wide drug busts [Re: Lord_McLovin]
#16552922 - 07/19/12 03:53 AM (9 months, 26 days ago) |
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Quote:
Lord_McLovin said:
There's almost no crime in NZ, that's why the pigs have nothing better to do than busting pot smokers.
i dont completely agree with that, while there is definitely far less crime than alot of countries, there is still plenty of major crime, gang influences and all that jazz.
the pigs definitely go out of there way to catch pot smokers though when there are much bigger fish to fry
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5-HT2A
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Quote:
"Police recognise that cannabis continues to be a major issue for New Zealanders and causes widespread harm to the community through health issues caused by addiction and related crime such as thefts and burglary," Mr Berry said.
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Mushie23
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Re: 2500 arrests in NZ-wide drug busts [Re: 5-HT2A]
#16555332 - 07/19/12 06:23 PM (9 months, 25 days ago) |
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Makes me wonder, how much money will this cost to put them through the court and jail system? And, how much money and police labor was wasted on this 6 month operation?
I feel like authorities do this just so they can have something to show for their so called "efforts".
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