Dazzle Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Three Canadian travelers, including two young women, are being held on charges of importing $23 million of cocaine into Australia on board a cruise ship. Source: CNN http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2016/09/02/australia-travelers-cocaine-bust-orig-vstop.cnn?iid=ob_article_organicsidebar_expansion We should just let people do what they want with their life. I mean they aren't even hurting anyone. Cocaine is no big deal. /sarcasm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuxfanabroad Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Least it wasn't the Black Sea, cruisin to Turkey! I seen this movie... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuckin_futz Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 These two morons were chronicling their journey on Instagram. Now that they've been arrested and jailed their Instagram pages are still active. The internet being what it is has taken over and the comments being left are well, just what you'd expect. https://www.instagram.com/melinar___/ https://www.instagram.com/belliszaa/ Meet the Worst Cocaine Smugglers of All Time Isabelle Lagace and Melina Roberge documented their alleged drug-smuggling journey on Instagram – and that wasn't even their biggest mistake. Melina Roberge (left) and Isabelle Lagace were arrested in Sydney, Australia for possessing a commercial quantity of cocaine. If Isabelle Lagace and Melina Roberge were trying to avoid jail – possibly for life – by hiding huge bags of cocaine in nondescript luggage, they failed. But if they wanted numerous, public bikini shots and selfies documenting their wild ride on a two-month luxury cruise to be spread across the international news media, they nailed it. Lucky for us, the duo provided both an example of why not to smuggle absurd amounts of narcotics across international borders and a taste of what a $11,000-plus cruise looks like, documenting stops in Bermuda, Chile, Ecuador and New York City's Times Square. Authorities have yet to reveal how or when they knew Lagace, 28, and Roberge, 22, were carrying 35 kilos of cocaine on a cruise liner headed from England to Australia. But when the MS Sea Princess made its final dock in Sydney, the two were quickly arrested along with another man, 63-year-old André Tamine, who himself was holding 60 kilos. It's unclear what connection the two women have with Tamine, but together the authorities called the 95-kilo bust Australia's biggest-ever seizure of drugs coming through a passenger boat or airport. Drug-sniffing dogs finding the 200 pounds of coke wasn’t a fluke – multiple government agencies, including the Canadian Border Service Agency, the Australian Federal Police and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, had been tracking the 900-foot ship’s voyage. Had the scam worked, the three Canadians – all from Quebec – would have probably made a mint, as Australia has among the highest drug prices in the world given its geographical distance from, well, everywhere. According to the Toronto Star, authorities are still investigating from which country they allegedly smuggled aboard the drugs. And given that they hit multiple ports in South American countries known for narcotics – including Colombia, where nearly 70 percent of Australia’s cocaine is produced, and Peru – it may take some time to figure it out. These three wannabe narcos messed up in numerous ways: The $23 million worth of drugs was found in plastic bags stuck directly in suitcases, half-hidden under what appear to be dirty towels – clearly the work of people who have never heard about the lengths most smugglers go to conceal their product from police. (Even Steve-O had a better plan.) But the real question is why they tried to get so much across the border in one go. The smugglers did not do a great job of concealing their goods. According to the Australian Critical Intelligence Commission’s 13th annual Illicit Drug Data Report, released just a few weeks before the bust, only 306 kilograms of cocaine were detected crossing the Australian border in fiscal year 2014-15, and the five most significant finds that year – in which people tried to use things like a log splitter and a pastry machine to conceal their hauls – only added up to 95 kilos. That’s right, the average score for the border guards is usually about 20 kilos, so these two figured they could stuff nearly twice that weight in some roll-on suitcases. Perhaps if they’d spent less time on social media and more time performing basic Google searches, they would have had better luck. Or maybe their bad luck was being on a boat with a guy smuggling twice the cocaine they were. That being said, way to go out on a high note, ladies. Too bad it might be the last vacation of your lives. http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/meet-the-worst-cocaine-smugglers-of-all-time-w437510 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riffraff Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 3 minutes ago, nuckin_futz said: These two morons were chronicling their journey on Instagram. Now that they've been arrested and jailed their Instagram pages are still active. The internet being what it is has taken over and the comments being left are well, just what you'd expect. https://www.instagram.com/melinar___/ https://www.instagram.com/belliszaa/ Meet the Worst Cocaine Smugglers of All Time Isabelle Lagace and Melina Roberge documented their alleged drug-smuggling journey on Instagram – and that wasn't even their biggest mistake. Melina Roberge (left) and Isabelle Lagace were arrested in Sydney, Australia for possessing a commercial quantity of cocaine. If Isabelle Lagace and Melina Roberge were trying to avoid jail – possibly for life – by hiding huge bags of cocaine in nondescript luggage, they failed. But if they wanted numerous, public bikini shots and selfies documenting their wild ride on a two-month luxury cruise to be spread across the international news media, they nailed it. Lucky for us, the duo provided both an example of why not to smuggle absurd amounts of narcotics across international borders and a taste of what a $11,000-plus cruise looks like, documenting stops in Bermuda, Chile, Ecuador and New York City's Times Square. Authorities have yet to reveal how or when they knew Lagace, 28, and Roberge, 22, were carrying 35 kilos of cocaine on a cruise liner headed from England to Australia. But when the MS Sea Princess made its final dock in Sydney, the two were quickly arrested along with another man, 63-year-old André Tamine, who himself was holding 60 kilos. It's unclear what connection the two women have with Tamine, but together the authorities called the 95-kilo bust Australia's biggest-ever seizure of drugs coming through a passenger boat or airport. Drug-sniffing dogs finding the 200 pounds of coke wasn’t a fluke – multiple government agencies, including the Canadian Border Service Agency, the Australian Federal Police and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, had been tracking the 900-foot ship’s voyage. Had the scam worked, the three Canadians – all from Quebec – would have probably made a mint, as Australia has among the highest drug prices in the world given its geographical distance from, well, everywhere. According to the Toronto Star, authorities are still investigating from which country they allegedly smuggled aboard the drugs. And given that they hit multiple ports in South American countries known for narcotics – including Colombia, where nearly 70 percent of Australia’s cocaine is produced, and Peru – it may take some time to figure it out. These three wannabe narcos messed up in numerous ways: The $23 million worth of drugs was found in plastic bags stuck directly in suitcases, half-hidden under what appear to be dirty towels – clearly the work of people who have never heard about the lengths most smugglers go to conceal their product from police. (Even Steve-O had a better plan.) But the real question is why they tried to get so much across the border in one go. The smugglers did not do a great job of concealing their goods. According to the Australian Critical Intelligence Commission’s 13th annual Illicit Drug Data Report, released just a few weeks before the bust, only 306 kilograms of cocaine were detected crossing the Australian border in fiscal year 2014-15, and the five most significant finds that year – in which people tried to use things like a log splitter and a pastry machine to conceal their hauls – only added up to 95 kilos. That’s right, the average score for the border guards is usually about 20 kilos, so these two figured they could stuff nearly twice that weight in some roll-on suitcases. Perhaps if they’d spent less time on social media and more time performing basic Google searches, they would have had better luck. Or maybe their bad luck was being on a boat with a guy smuggling twice the cocaine they were. That being said, way to go out on a high note, ladies. Too bad it might be the last vacation of your lives. http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/meet-the-worst-cocaine-smugglers-of-all-time-w437510 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerrDrFunk Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Escobar's spinning in his grave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odd. Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 I guess you can call them bad bitches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShakyWalton Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Alpha females..thats not gonna fly in the slammer...what a way to piss your life away..what a couple of F$#knuts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harvey Spector Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 So who gave them all this Coke to smuggle? I highly doubt they cut it up and packed it all themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckster19 Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 No deals, let them rot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyledude Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Sounds like they'd be fun to party with... Too bad they'll probably be spending some time behind bars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancaster Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Something doesn't quite stack up..... Even if they are incompetent... how can they afford to get $23 million worth of coke? Even if they are just mules.... who is dumb enough to let some noobs carry $23 million worth of cocaine for them? Probably some (dumb) kids being taken advantage off for easy cash.... or unwitting accomplices... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RRypien37 Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 1 minute ago, Lancaster said: Something doesn't quite stack up..... Even if they are incompetent... how can they afford to get $23 million worth of coke? Even if they are just mules.... who is dumb enough to let some noobs carry $23 million worth of cocaine for them? Probably some (dumb) kids being taken advantage off for easy cash.... or unwitting accomplices... This. No way any legit supplier hands over 23 million in product to a pair of dumb LG's. Has to be more to this story that hasn't been released. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Boudreau Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 49 minutes ago, kyledude said: Sounds like they'd be fun to party with... Too bad they'll probably be spending some time behind bars. Are they going to the lady prison? They are gonna love these two hot pieces of ass in prison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Monahan Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 12 hours ago, Dazzle said: We should just let people do what they want with their life. I mean they aren't even hurting anyone. Cocaine is no big deal. /sarcasm Stoll getting caught with a recreational amount of coke and these two morons smuggling 35 kilos are two very, very different things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cramarossa Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 This is like a bad episode of Banged/Locked Up Abroad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pears Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 How can someone honestly be that dumb? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apollo Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 They were probably set up... As posters have mentioned above, you don't just get 23m worth of blow and smuggle it like a rookie. I bet they're innocent. Free them. They are good Canadians. Jail some Americans instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elvis15 Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 13 hours ago, HerrDrFunk said: Escobar's spinning in his grave. Watching Narcos season 2 right now. But yeah, they clearly needed a better plan to get it into Aus and were already up the creek if they'd been being tracked by authorities before then. And while you don't stumble upon that much coke and devise an expensive plan to smuggle it on your own, the kind of backers that would require would also probably have given them some better instructions than just "pack it in a suitcase with some dirty towels over top" or else risk losing a lot by having it picked up so easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jägermeister Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 I would. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzle Posted September 5, 2016 Author Share Posted September 5, 2016 4 hours ago, Sean Monahan said: Stoll getting caught with a recreational amount of coke and these two morons smuggling 35 kilos are two very, very different things. It illustrates the point that as long as cocaine is illegal, prices for it will be fairly stable. Criminals are making money through cocaine (much like how alcohol was a huge cash cow during prohibition.) Stoll is a small piece of the puzzle, admittedly, but he is still nonetheless supporting a criminal enterprise. The 23M dollars in this case (which has likely nothing to do with Stoll) wouldn't have been taxed, had it not been discovered. That's 23M that could have gone somewhere useful in society. Instead, someone very wealthy will remain very wealthy. 23M is a small number when it comes to drugs. Billions are made every year - in how many countries?! There's a bigger picture to this that people on these forums are shockingly unable to see. If laws can be changed so that it can crash the drug markets, that might be a solution. As it stands, people who don't deserve the money are laundering their dirty money for YOUR clean, hard-working, legal money. Some legitimate businesses are paid for using drug money. Otherwise, they would have a hard time explaining how they received all that money. People are still OKAY with Stoll contributing to this? One small problem leads to another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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