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Cops Find A PS2 Full Of Drugs
Three charged over ecstasy hidden in mailed PlayStation
Drug bust ... Police found ecstasy hidden inside a PlayStation game posted to an address in Surfers Paradise.
THREE men stand
accused of drug smuggling after cops found 3400 ecstasy pills hidden in
a PlayStation game posted to their home in Australia.
The
Australian Federal Police arrested and charged two Canadians, both 18,
and a New Zealander, 20, at a Surfers Paradise address on Friday.
A
police spokesman said Customs officers detected a parcel containing the
drugs at Sydney's international mail facility on October 5.
Three
packets of tablets were found inside the video game machine and one
packet was found in the cover of a game disc. The AFP monitored the
consignment to the Queensland address.
The tablets weighed
just over 900 grams, but the consignment will undergo forensic testing
to determine the quantity and purity of the drugs.
The three
men appeared before Southport Magistrates Court today charged with one
count of importing a commercial quantity of a border controlled drug
and one count of attempting to possess a commercial quantity of a
border controlled drug.
The maximum penalty of the offences is life imprisonment and/or a $825,000 fine.
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