AAP General News (Australia)
12-20-2007
NSW: Man arrested for smuggling ice chemical in coffee
SYDNEY, Dec 20 AAP - Customs officers and federal police have seized sample bags of
Cambodian coffee containing enough ephedrine to make $35 million worth of the drug ice.
More than 100 kilograms of ephedrine - the essential ingredient used to make methamphetamine,
or ice - was found during a check of air cargo at Sydney Airport earlier this month.
Customs said a 23-year-old man from western Sydney was arrested overnight after the
December 11 check turned up 105kg of the powder in the consignment from Cambodia.
In a joint investigation, AFP officers monitored the delivery to a home at Greenacre
in Sydney's west.
They arrested a man at the home last night and charged him with importing a commercial
quantity of the drug.
He was to appear in Central Local Court today.
The AFP said the bust may have stopped a substantial amount of ice hitting the Australian
drug market.
"This amount of precursor could potentially have made 90 kilograms of ice with a potential
street value of more than $35 million," AFP assistant commissioner Roman Quaedvlieg said.
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KEYWORD: ICE
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