Two arrested in Sydney over alleged 300kg heroin seizure in Thailand

[RafPinto]

Looks like Christmas presents.

[brianthainess]

4 hours ago, mokwit said:

Are we sure the photo is from Thailand. Looks like somewhere else.

How could it be, apart from different uniforms and language, there is no vinyl board or pointing.

[brianthainess]

1 hour ago, Clarkey611 said:

Can someone ask an ex Thai politician for comment about the source? Yes, the one that spent some time in a hotel on Australia.

Is that the one who went AWOL for 4yrs then got promoted ?

[brianthainess]

1 hour ago, ThaiFelix said:

Does that include Johnson and Johnson baby powder?

No it includes Flour.

[Kildonan]

4 hours ago, mokwit said:

Are we sure the photo is from Thailand. Looks like somewhere else.

Photo Definately not in Thailand,,, no "finger pointing"!! 555

[Tropposurfer]

If I was a vengeful person I'd say introduce them to full blown addiction then let them experience to horrors of cold turkey withdrawal over and over again for maybe 10 to 20 years while they savour the delights of one of the worlds worst prisons; 'The Bangkok Hilton'. 

[AhFarangJa]

The photo is from Malaysia, Kastam is Malay for customs, and Malaysia is written on the board at the back. Maybe they seized the drugs after leaving Thailand to try to catch other accomplices. Or, it is a stock photo as there seems to be a lot more than 300 kg there. Still, a good result regardless of the minor details.

[wombat]

not one news report on Oz media can i find.
how old is this news item?

[David T Pike]

You know that is some stock photo... "found the drugs concealed in paint drums" but it looks like this heroin was packed to look like snacks or something else so they would not have been put in paint drums! ????

[Liverpool Lou]

4 hours ago, ChrisY1 said:

And of course....no mention of the source of the drugs!

That's the Aussie Feds for you!

[Liverpool Lou]

3 hours ago, bbko said:

Does this mean the FBI set up & ran a platform where people thought their messages would be hidden/secure/private? 

Yes.

[roger101]

My first thought on reading the headline was "I didn't know that the flour seller was in Australia".

[jacko45k]

3 hours ago, bbko said:

Does this mean the FBI set up & ran a platform where people thought their messages would be hidden/secure/private? 

Yes.... quite the tool to nab the criminals.

[mtls2005]

Some of these massive busts get limited publicity.

 

Even more so when the drugs are mysteriously "lost". See 11.4 tonnes of ketamine in Chachaengsao.

 

 

[Liverpool Lou]

2 hours ago, Boedog said:

314kg , looks like 1kg bricks there's nearly 300 on the table alone with 32 boxes on the floor someone is tell fibs, 1 for you 2 for me

The OP doesn't say that the photo shows the drugs involved in this case.  You actually counted them?

[Liverpool Lou]

4 minutes ago, mtls2005 said:

Some of these massive busts get limited publicity.

 

Even more so when the drugs are mysteriously "lost". See 11.4 tonnes of ketamine in Chachaengsao.

That seizure got massive publicity but the "drugs" were not "mysteriously lost".  There was no Ketamine to lose, mysteriously, or otherwise.   

(See "keeping up with what actually happened").

[Monkeyrobot]

8 hours ago, mokwit said:

Are we sure the photo is from Thailand. Looks like somewhere else.

Indonesia 

[mokwit]

1 hour ago, Liverpool Lou said:

The OP doesn't say that the photo shows the drugs involved in this case.  You actually counted them?

I would have thought it would be a fair assumption that the picture shown was related to the report, although in this case it seems it isn't, or are you saying It's quite normal to report on something and then show pictures from a completely different incident? You know like "Police arrest rioters in London" and show a picture of Venezuelan police arresting rioters in Caracas.

[jacko45k]

2 minutes ago, mokwit said:

I would have thought it would be a fair assumption that the picture shown was related to the report, although in this case it seems it isn't, or are you saying It's quite normal to report on something and then show pictures from a completely different incident? You know like "Police arrest rioters in London" and show a picture of Venezuelan police arresting rioters in Caracas.

I am afraid it happens all to often... some old stock pic is reused. 

[brucegoniners]

300 kg? What could possibly go wrong? LOL

 

Let's enter these guys in the 2021 stupid criminals competition. We may have a winner!

[Millcx]

11 hours ago, mokwit said:

Are we sure the photo is from Thailand. Looks like somewhere else.

Yeah Defo right … All the ones around table are working out how much their share is and how much they will get on open market