Grange man charged for trying to hide 2kg pseudoephedrine-based drug precursor in board games
AN Adelaide man has gone straight to jail without passing go after Australian Border Force officers seized two kilograms of precursor chemicals hidden in board games bound for his home.
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A DRUG trafficker has gone straight to jail without passing go after he was implicated in the smuggling of illegal precursor chemicals hidden in board games. The man was denied bail.
Australian Border Force officers located a parcel containing two kilograms of pseudoephedrine, a chemical used to produce illicit drugs, on June 14 as the package arrived in Sydney.
The drugs were hidden in board games including chess and ludo and bound for an address in Adelaide.
South Australian Border Force investigators with the help of South Australian police raided a Grange property on Friday where they arrested a 52-year-old man.
Police clandestine laboratory team officers secured a number of other precursor chemicals and laboratory paraphernalia normally used for drug manufacturing.
He was charged with the Federal offence of importing a commercial quantity of a border controlled precursor and was denied bail.
Following investigations by Western Adelaide detectives, he was also charged with trafficking a controlled drug and possessing illegal equipment.
Australian Border Force Investigations Commander Graeme Grosse said the seizure was a good result for the community and for the border force enforcement command operations.
“An investigation that has led to multiple charges and involved our state law enforcement
partners demonstrates we do not tolerate the importation of drugs of dependence
through our border or domestic manufacturing in our community,” Mr Grosse
said.