AAP General News (Australia)
12-08-2006
NSW: Customs nab another man with drugs down pants
SYDNEY, Dec 8 AAP - A Canadian man accused of trying to smuggle a kilogram of cocaine
into Australia in his boxer shorts will appear in a Sydney court today.
Customs officers stopped the 35-year-old at Sydney Airport after he arrived on a flight
from Vancouver yesterday, Australian Federal Police (AFP) said.
During questioning, officers became suspicious he may have been concealing drugs and
conducted a frisk search.
The man then allegedly produced a package hidden in his pants, which allegedly tested
positive as cocaine.
He was charged by the AFP with attempting to import a marketable quantity of a border-controlled
drug under the Criminal Code Act 1995.
The maximum penalty is a $550,000 fine and/or 25 years in prison.
The man is due to appear before Sydney's Central Local Court today.
It is the second time this week customs officers at Sydney Airport have nabbed would-be
smugglers with illegal drugs hidden down their trousers.
A Singaporean national was charged with drug offences after he was allegedly caught
on Monday on arrival from Bangkok, Thailand, with 700 grams of heroin concealed under
cycling shorts worn beneath his trousers.
AAP sk/klw/bwl
KEYWORD: SHORTS
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