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Israelis at center of ecstasy drug trade Israel is at the center of international trade in the drug ecstasy, according to a document published last week by the U.S. State Department.
In recent years, organized crime in Israel, some with links to criminal organizations in Russia, have come to control the distribution of the drug in Europe, according to a Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs document.
The same document also points out that Israeli criminal groups have a hand in the distribution of ecstasy in North America.
During 2000, 80 percent of the ecstasy seized in North America originated in the Netherlands, which is the largest production center, along with Belgium and Poland. The State Department is certain that Israeli organizations are linked to the laboratories in the Netherlands and are responsible for the worldwide distribution.
"Israeli drug distribution organizations are currently the main source for distribution of the drug to groups inside the U.S., to smuggling through express mail services, through couriers on commercial flights and, recently, through air cargo," states the report. In the past two years, the U.S. has dealt more severely with ecstasy. Federal judges deal with smugglers in the ecstasy trade with the same severity as heroin and cocaine dealers.
- Haaretz Daily
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Men convicted for huge LSD lab operation 01.04.2003 3.11 pm
SAN FRANCISCO - Two Californians who operated a drug laboratory that could produce as much as US$100 million ($180 million) of LSD in little over a month have been convicted on drug charges.
William Pickard, 57, and Clyde Apperson, 47, were arrested in Kansas in November 2000 as they transported an illegal LSD lab in a rented truck. The Drug Enforcement Administration called it the largest LSD lab seizure ever.
Both men were from the San Francisco area, once a hot bed of the 1960s drug counter-culture.
The jury in the 11-week trial at a federal court in Topeka, Kansas heard evidence that the two men previously had a laboratory in Santa Fe, New Mexico that could produce 2.2 pounds of LSD every five weeks - enough to make 10 million doses.
The two men face at least 10 years in prison on charges of conspiracy to manufacture and distribute more than 10 grams of LSD and on one count of intent to distribute the drug.
They are scheduled to be sentenced in Kansas in August. Pickard is already in federal custody and Apperson was remanded into custody on Monday.
- REUTERS
I’d shoot drug barons, says chief Thursday, 13 February, 2003, 16:40 GMT
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The head of Dyfed-Powys Police has said he would get rid of drugs in Britain by shooting international drug dealers who target Britain.
Chief Superintendent Terence Grange would line drug barons up against a wall and open fire, he told a west Wales newspaper.
Mr Grange said he would tell drug dealers "'If you would be so kind as to stand up against that wall for a minute.'
"Then I'd be shouting 'load, aim, fire'. Personally, I'd shoot."
He made his comments in an interview with the Llanelli Star newspaper, which is running a campaign locally to rid shops of merchandise which make drugs appear attractive to young people.
Mr Grange had given his backing to the campaign.
He also thinks people who are repeatedly convicted of drug offences should be locked up longer for their own good.
To make a comment that the best access is within the prisons is nonsensical.
Steve Lyons, drugs worker
Mr Grange said most were addicts needing help to kick the habit, and claimed the best help available tended to be in prisons. Mr Grange began his career in the police force in north London, and has a reputation for taking a hard line against drug use.
Steve Lyons, a drugs worker with 15 years experience based in south Wales, dismissed Mr Grange's suggestion that the best place for drug treatment was in prison.
He said while there were delays in accessing treatment for drug users, it was still possible for them to get help.
"To make a comment that the best access is within the prisons is nonsensical," he said.
"A lot of people we have seen will have potentially been introduced to drugs in prison.
"The prison is a prison, and it is there to punish people, not to treat substance misusers.
"Drug problems are long-term, and they need long-term solutions."
Illegal rave stopped by police 15:22 Wednesday 5th March 2003
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A PLANNED rave was stopped by police on Friday night.
Hills Garage, in High Road, Leytonstone, was the arranged meeting point for another illegal rave. The borough has seen two large raves in the past few weeks.
The first was held at the former EMD cinema, in Hoe Street, Walthamstow, when hundreds of party-goers trashed the listed building.
Weeks later, ravers descended on an empty factory in Sutherland Road, Walthamstow, and diced with death as they danced close to containers filled with toxic chemicals. They also wrecked that building.
But officers were prepared this time when they heard about a rave taking place at Hills garage.
A police spokesman said there were no further details, but officers foiled the rave at Hills, which has been targeted by ravers in the past.
The garage is currently subject to a planning application to turn it into a two to four storey residential development. This will include 18 seperate homes - three houses, six two-bedroom flats and nine one-bedroom flats.
Local residents are opposing the plans and have started a petition to send to the council. They claim the site will be over-developed, and that there is a lack of parking and play space for children.
Bushwood Area Residents Association has also objected to the plans. They have instead recommended that the council insists on a low-rise development.
Expert sounds alarm about ‘club drugs’ By ELEANOR CAMERON - Staff Writer
Fri Apr 18 03:00:08 2003
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"GHB is the most dangerous drug on earth, right up there with heroin," Trinka Porrata told a Chico State University audience of 300 people Wednesday.
Ecstasy, GHB and Ketamine. These are not new drugs," Porrata told the crowd in the BMU auditorium. "We just haven't talked about them. Everyone knows heroin is dangerous. No matter what we say about heroin, a few people will still blow it and end up dead."
Porrata came to the university with a message that should frighten any parent, and pulled no punches in delivering it to the mainly college-age audience. A former detective with the Los Angeles Police Department's narcotics unit, she is an expert on raves, "club drugs" and gamma hydroxybutyric acid - GHB.
GHB is made from gamma butyrolactone and sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide. Those are chemicals most commonly used as floor strippers, degreasing solvents and drain cleaners.
Porrata said she is worried about the people who are naive about the drugs, unknowing victims of predators and "friends."
"I am not anti-rave. But can you hold a rave without drugs? Not really." The rave culture rejects alcohol but embraces prolific illegal drug use, she said. "Rave promoters will bring in drug dealers."
"This is organized crime reaching out to out 12- and 13-year-olds. There are brain-dead parents dropping their kids off at fairgrounds for high school parties. What high school party needs security and EMS on stand-by?"
Porrata has seen instances where ravers have danced for hours next to a dead friend, too "hopped up" to realize what had happened.
One of the myths of GHB is the user will sleep it off in four hours, she told the audience, a myth promoted by pro-GHB Web sites that don't want to attract attention to the drug's use, Porrata explained.
"People will leave their friends to sleep it off. They will leave 'em lying on their backs," she said. Users lose their gag reflex. "They will choke on their own vomit. If it's not slept off in four hours, it's called death."
Chico is no stranger to the hazards of the drug. Soroya Ali, 22, died after taking the drug on the evening of Sept. 7, 2001. Christopher James Law, 22, and Adam Eugene Orr, 25, both Chico students, are awaiting sentencing for supplying the drug to Ali.
The pathologist listed the cause of death as "acute GHB poisoning."
The victim consumed a mixture of orange juice and as little as "a half-capful" of GHB two separate times at Orr's Hazel Street residence.
Another rave drug, Ecstasy, increases the body's temperature from the normal average of 98.6 degrees to 104 degrees and higher. The increased body temperature literally burns up the brain, Porrata told the audience.
The No. 1 myth with Ecstasy is drinking a lot of water and cooling off under water sprays will prevent harm from the skyrocketing body temperatures.
Rave promoters are all about making money, she said. The security at the gate isn't keeping drugs out. They are keeping water out.
"No water is allowed in and water is sold at excessive prices. The record I've seen is $20 for a 16-ounce bottle of water," she said. "They will turn off the cold water in the bathroom to prevent people from buying one bottle and refilling it during the night. They will turn off the drinking fountains."
Porrata punctuated her comments with slides and videos of people under the influence of GHB and Ecstasy - people as young as 12 years old.
"Here's dad babysitting the kids at a rave," she said, showing a video of what appeared to be a 5-year-old and a 6-year-old in the background. The rave took place in Fresno.
GHB is known on the street as Gamma-OH, Georgia Home Boy, Grievous Bodily Harm, Liquid X, Liquid Ecstasy, Scoop, Water, Great Hormones at Bedtime and - most notoriously - Easy Lay.
The nickname Easy Lay comes from its use as a rape drug.
There are 36 drugs used to rape women. GHB is the fastest to use and becomes untraceable. It is also the hardest to catch since the victims appear to be willing participants, said Porrata.
"There is a rapid high intoxication; an out-of-body experience and sexually-oriented behavior. Vomiting is common."
The sexually-oriented behavior is used to justify victim-blaming after sexual assaults, Porrata told the audience. "It was consensual. She asked for it. Never mind she doesn't even know where she is."
GHB will also cause blackouts. Victims will not know what happened while they were under the influence of the drug.
Prosecutors, when faced with the sexually-oriented behavior and blackouts caused by the drug, will hide behind it as an excuse not to prosecute, Porrata said in an interview after the presentation.
"DAs are elected officials. They want high winning prosecution rates." She predicts it could take civil lawsuits against law enforcement to create changes. "Law enforcement is not up to speed on this."
The cases are often complicated by victims who don't report the assaults right away and by how quickly the drug is flushed from the body.
There is a six-hour window of opportunity to find the drug in a victim's body. Porrata said a newly developed hair residue test can find GHB traces up to 30 days after ingestion, but it is expensive.
"The most common way guys dose a drink is with nasal spray bottles," Porrata said. GHB has a salty taste that can be masked by sweeter, fruitier drinks. Drinks like red wine are harder because everyone knows what they are supposed to taste like. "(A predator) may offer you a sweeter drink than you have."
Women need to beware of bartenders, she warned. "Bartenders are the notorious first line of dosing."
GHB isn't limited to the rave culture. It has been sold to body builders, athletes and businessmen as a sleep aid and to the elderly as a way of fighting aging.
There are a lot of suicides by people trying to get off GHB addictions.
"Most users don't see themselves as addicts," Porrata said. "In the first stage of addiction, GHB is a wonder drug. You don't know how you have managed to live without it." In the second stage, a user's wife, children or roommate are the first to know there is a problem.
"He thinks he's sitting on the edge of the bed eating chicken," Porrata said as a video of a jerking, shaking man played across the screen. He uncontrollably tossed himself across the bed and bent himself into shapes that looked painful.
Psychotic episodes also begin in the second stage.
"It takes 10 to 14 days to detox from GHB. Detox patients must be kept in restraints," Porrata said. Patients have severe seizures and hallucinations during the detoxification process.
Porrata currently works as a drug consultant, providing expert testimony, instruction and legislative support on various drug issues. She has also been burned in effigy at the summer counter-culture event known as Burning Man.
"I wish they had invited me," said Porrata.
Police stop all night rave in a quarry 15:00 - 15 April 2003
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Residents in Box were kept awake by loud music when up to 100 young people gathered for an illegal party in a disused quarry. Thumping beats could be heard across the village into the early hours of Sunday.
Police and environmental health officers were called out after a flood of complaints from local people who could not sleep through the noise.
The first report was received at 2.39am when police attended the site - on private land at the top of Quarry Hill - to assess the situation.
Officers stood at the entrance and turned away other revellers hoping to join in with the partygoers, and when daylight broke they persuaded the group to pack up their equipment and leave.
Some villagers were annoyed that nothing was done earlier to switch off the music.
However, the police said they acted promptly in the circumstances.
At 10.45am police officers, landowner Tim Barton and environmental health officers went on to the site.
The partygoers were formally asked to move on and a noise abatement notice was served.
The group wanted to carry on for another 15 minutes but they were told a magistrates' warrant would be sought to confiscate the sound system.
They then packed up, and collected litter before moving off the site.
Inspector Jon Tapper of Trowbridge police said the site was in darkness and potentially dangerous so it was necessary to wait for daylight.
He said people were seen drinking alcohol but that there was no evidence of drug taking.
"It appeared to be quite an impromptu gathering of young people in their 20s and from the Bath area.
"No arrests were made and the general conduct of the individuals present was orderly.
"The site was somewhat raised and the embankment around part directed the noise downhill into Box and the valley.
"The location of the site did not lend itself to it and, if anything, amplified the noise even further.
"Some people were concerned it had taken so long to deal with the incident.
"But when you are dealing with these sort of incidents early intervention is always desirable.
"Once the party has started it's difficult to act swiftly to close it."
Box Parish Council chairman Derek Lovell said: "I had several parishioners complaining of the horrendous thump, thump noise. Many couldn't sleep.
"I appreciate if there are 100 or so people and one or two policemen it would not be wise to take them on.
"Hopefully it was a oneoff and they will go and bother someone else.
"It is a worrying thing because, no doubt, there are other things attached than just the music.
"I don't know if there were any drugs there."
But not everyone was up in arms about the noise.
John Arundel, owner of the Quarryman Arms, said: "I sympathise but I think it is fair play. I don't really worry about it.
"I think they have to enjoy themselves here and there."
I’d shoot drug barons, says chief BBC News
The head of Dyfed-Powys Police has said he would get rid of drugs in Britain by shooting international drug dealers who target Britain.
Chief Superintendent Terence Grange would line drug barons up against a wall and open fire, he told a west Wales newspaper.
Mr Grange said he would tell drug dealers "'If you would be so kind as to stand up against that wall for a minute.'
"Then I'd be shouting 'load, aim, fire'. Personally, I'd shoot."
Habit
He made his comments in an interview with the Llanelli Star newspaper, which is running a campaign locally to rid shops of merchandise which make drugs appear attractive to young people.
Mr Grange had given his backing to the campaign.
He also thinks people who are repeatedly convicted of drug offences should be locked up longer for their own good.
To make a comment that the best access is within the prisons is nonsensical
Steve Lyons, drugs worker
Mr Grange said most were addicts needing help to kick the habit, and claimed the best help available tended to be in prisons.
Mr Grange began his career in the police force in north London, and has a reputation for taking a hard line against drug use.
Steve Lyons, a drugs worker with 15 years experience based in south Wales, dismissed Mr Grange's suggestion that the best place for drug treatment was in prison.
He said while there were delays in accessing treatment for drug users, it was still possible for them to get help.
"To make a comment that the best access is within the prisons is nonsensical," he said.
"A lot of people we have seen will have potentially been introduced to drugs in prison.
"The prison is a prison, and it is there to punish people, not to treat substance misusers.
"Drug problems are long-term, and they need long-term solutions."
Concern at Thai drug crackdown BBC News
Diplomats in Thailand say there is growing international concern over the rising death toll since the government announced an all-out campaign against drug dealers at the beginning of this month.
It has been three weeks since Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra vowed to stamp out drugs in Thailand, and the killing seems to be getting out of hand.
Every day newspapers and television programmes show grisly pictures of alleged drug dealers lying in pools of blood, all with guns and bags of methamphetamine pills in their hands.
Official figures put the death toll at more than 600, although the police say that only 300 of these were on an official black list and that nearly all were killed by their rivals.
Suspicious
But the striking similarity among the victims- all shot execution-style- and the fact that no investigations of their deaths have taken place, has led many Thais to suspect that there is an official shoot-to-kill policy in place.
Several ministers have suggested that drug dealers should be wiped out, and local police forces are under strong pressure to show quick results in the fight against drugs.
International human rights organisations have already expressed their deep concern over the killings, which they say have cast a shadow over Thailand's relatively favourable human rights record.
Pc accused of drug dealing BBC News
A police officer and a civilian police employee have appeared in court in connection with the seizure of cocaine and ecstasy worth more than £2m.
Police constable Kevin Davies, 28, based at Guildford police station, was charged on Thursday night with conspiracy to supply cocaine and ecstasy.
He was also charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, a Surrey Police spokeswoman said.
Emma Barnett, 29, a civilian worker based at Surrey Police headquarters in Guildford, was charged with conspiracy to supply cocaine and MDMA and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
Armed police raids
Three men, Daniel Clark, 29, Piers Ravenhill, 30, and Ben Rickwood, 27, were charged with conspiracy to supply cocaine and MDMA and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
A Surrey Police spokeswoman said on Friday: "All five were remanded in custody and will appear at Woking Magistrates Court this morning."
She said all the charges related to a series of raids across west and north-west Surrey and north-east Hampshire on Wednesday night, in which hauls of cocaine, ecstasy and cannabis were recovered.
The 35 raids involved 330 officers, many of them armed.
Drug tests to help reduce crime BBC News
Police say new powers allowing them to test criminals for drugs is helping to reduce crime.
Stafford and Cannock police officers have been given powers to test people charged with certain crimes such as burglary and car crime so they can be offered treatment.
A police spokesman said figures showed 45% of tests were positive.
The worst area was Hackney with 66% and the area with the lowest percentage of offenders who tested positive for drugs was Torquay with 36%.
Drug treatment
Sergeant Russ Cartlidge said the tests are helping to break the link between drugs and crime.
"The scheme is twofold because we are able to get offenders the drug treatment they need," he said.
"In doing so, we're reducing the need for crime to be committed to finance an illegal drug habit."
The new drug testing powers are being introduced to 30 areas identified as being the worst affected by drugs-related crime.
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