Source: www.totpi.com --- Thursday, July 20, 2017
An elderly pilot is among three men charged after allegedly plotting to make an island-hopping drug run from California to Australia carrying ice worth about $255 million. The Australian Federal Police allege the trio intended to use a six-seater plane to ferry the massive haul of ice across the Pacific Ocean, but the scheme never got off the ground. Plans to fly the small plane from the west coast of the United States to a regional Victorian air field was “unique”, federal police Superintendent Krissy Barrett said. “Now I’m not a good flyer at the best of times but that’s certainly not a plane I would have wanted to be on,” she added. The 255-kilogram quantity of ice was discovered by the US Drug Enforcement Administration in a storage facility in Santa Rosa in northern California on June 15. The drugs were to be hidden in the plane, Superintendent Barrett said. “We’ll allege there was a sophisticated concealment plan for the drugs … which involved the removal of passenger seats on board the aircraft.” A 72-year-old Melbourne man who is a qualified pilot was arrested at Melbourne Airport on July 5. Police allege he planned to fly to the US, before piloting the light aircraft back to Australia. A 52-year-old man from Zetland in Sydney was stopped at Sydney Airport on Friday after $2.4 million in cash was seized at Mildura, in regional Victoria, in a discovery police have linked to the alleged trafficking plans. A 58-year-old man ...
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