(G'Nicht!)
Posted on 09/21/2012 11:41:33 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
Two men have made UK legal history after being convicted of a drugs-related offence even though the substances involved are not illegal, police said.
Anthony Woodford, 23, and David Lewinson, 44, stood trial after Lewinson was found with 150kg of grounded Paracetamol and caffeine at Dover docks in Kent.
Although the substances are not illegal, investigators suspected they would be used as cutting agents for heroin, giving the Class A drug a street value of more than £5 million.
The Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate launched an investigation and identified Woodford as the organiser of the cross-Channel trip, which led on to a landmark prosecution.
The pair were charged under the Serious Crime Act 2007 with 'importing a quantity of caffeine and paracetamol which was capable of encouraging or assisting ... the supply of a controlled drug of Class A'.
At Maidstone Crown Court on Monday, a jury found Woodford, of Harlow, Essex, and Lewinson, of Colindale, north London, guilty of the offence.
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I don’t know of anybody who loved somebody while kicking his teeth in.
Yep and slavery used to be legal.
But that doesn't make it right either.
I knew you’d say that.
Actually he said “Sometimes love don’t feel like it should...you make it hurt so good.”
Cool video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dOsbsuhYGQ
[huh...they raided my closet, apparently...the whips and chains make it ‘hurt so good’]
;]
Then you probably also know that I’m going nite-nite now.....
(Have to return to the native soil before the first rays of the sun. You know the drill.)
Someday you’ll lose that bucket of dirt and be in a world of hurt.
:)
(G'Nicht!)
And I have crowbar in the garage and that’s a burglars tool.
Let’s not mention the tire iron in the trunk... What could I potentially do with that?
Maybe he had a big headache. /s
Using caffeine (a stimulant) to cut heroin (a depressant) ?
I assume he had a car or truck and wasn't just carrying the stuff.
That brings up another point. If they had a vehicle, they should certainly be arrested since a vehicle could be used to distribute drugs. Everyone with a vehicle should be arrested for this reason alone. /s
Ingredients: acetaminophen, caffeine, aspirin.
Ah-ha! They were just waiting for the aspirin shipment so they could make counterfeit legal OTC medications.
150 kg!!!
Man that must be some migraine......
That, or he *really* didn’t like his liver.
We’re all criminals; some of us just haven’t been caught yet.
Caffeine is known to enhance the effects of some analgesics. Or maybe they were just following a recipe they got from an equally ignorant buddy.
BTW, has anybody noticed the vast amount of surveillance cameras in public areas? I was walking through Boston Common a few days ago and those cameras were mounted everywhere. These cameras are mounted in every convenience store and gas station, even along highway overpasses.
I'm sure that the technology exists to store all the video being recorded by these cameras in central data centers in log files that are searchable. It's only a matter of time before law enforcement will have the ability to search these archives with face recognition software tools and determine exactly where you have been at any given time. With OCR technology, they could even run your license plate number in a search and see where you have been driving (and how fast you were going).
George Orwell was only a few decades off but his visions are slowly coming true.
BTW, has anybody noticed the vast amount of surveillance cameras in public areas? I was walking through Boston Common a few days ago and those cameras were mounted everywhere. These cameras are mounted in every convenience store and gas station, even along highway overpasses.
I'm sure that the technology exists to store all the video being recorded by these cameras in central data centers in log files that are searchable. It's only a matter of time before law enforcement will have the ability to search these archives with face recognition software tools and determine exactly where you have been at any given time. With OCR technology, they could even run your license plate number in a search and see where you have been driving (and how fast you were going).
George Orwell was only a few decades off but his visions are slowly coming true.
Kinda like the third degree given to Americans who buy cold medicine
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When did that start?
Last week I bought a Nyquil or something along that line and had some other stuff...at the checkout line the clerk said I need a birth date for this. WHAT? She held up the cough medicine (10 fl oz) and said this...I said 1939 and she said, “I need the whole birth date”....dumfoundly, I gave in, figuring I would get the same BS most anywhere.
At least when they ask for a phone # or such for batteries or anything I will pop out an area code and seven #;s and be done with it.
Almost as bad as couple of months ago bought some O’Douls (AB non/alcohol beer(??)) and the clerk wanted to check my ID because of the alcohol????
I told him he must be working for tips, thanked him and showed my ID...when I pointed out it was N/A he kind of stammered and went about ‘our’ business.
MADNESS......
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