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Cops Catch Big Fish

not.a.sock.puppet — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 21:29:40 GMT

POLICE have smashed a cocaine ring worth hundreds of millions of dollars operating out of the Sydney Fish Market during Christmas Day raids which have resulted in the arrest of 15 men — including a former NRL star and Bondi cafe king.

The arrests come after a 2½- year top-secret investigation by the NSW Police Drug Squad and Australian Federal Police which targeted commercial fishermen who were allegedly using fishing trawlers to move cocaine from Chile to Australia.

Police will allege one of the players involved in the alleged cocaine ring is commercial fisherman Joseph Pirrello, 63, who made headlines across the country when he was the managing director of Seafish Tasmania, the company that brought the controversial super trawler Abel Tasman to Australian waters in 2012.

The 143m Dutch-owned ship, formerly called Margiris, was brought to Australia to catch an 18,000 tonne quota of fish but after public outcry the then Environment Minister Tony Burke banned the ship from fishing.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/alleged-cocaine-ring-busted-in-series-of-christmas-day-drug-raids/news-story/176db3ec167f96ef52f627e5a8280c76

Crikey! Them Coppers know how to reel 'em in, ay!

Re: Cops Catch Big Fish

davidc4430 — Thu, 29 Dec 2016 00:28:13 GMT

makes me wonder how much of this stuff isnt being found/caught?

seems getting hold of these drugs is pretty easy at just about any outdoor music festival.

Re: Cops Catch Big Fish

freddie*rooster — Thu, 29 Dec 2016 00:38:09 GMT

What infuriates me about the reporting of this - is the way they implicate

the Rooster's NRL team by saying an ex Rooster's player has been arrested

he hasn't played for the Rooster's for 36yrs

Re: Cops Catch Big Fish

icyfroth — Thu, 29 Dec 2016 01:30:53 GMT

That's probably why he needs the added income lol.

Re: Cops Catch Big Fish

davidc4430 — Thu, 29 Dec 2016 02:19:50 GMT

@freddie*rooster wrote:
What infuriates me about the reporting of this - is the way they implicate

the Rooster's NRL team by saying an ex Rooster's player has been arrested

he hasn't played for the Rooster's for 36yrs

its lazy jounalism

we dont have many real journos these days, just young upstarts going for the cheap shots

Re: Cops Catch Big Fish

jimmy*part4 — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 13:22:33 GMT

The fishermen claim they were using the coke as bait, they heard the fish were hooked.

When told to drop a line in the water they misunderstood.