AAP General News (Australia)
12-15-2006
SA: Man jailed for importing "fishy" heroin
A man who tried to bring more than five-and-a-half million dollars' worth of heroin
into Australia .. hidden inside two containers of pickled fish .. has been jailed for
seven years.
CONG KHANH LE was arrested at Adelaide Airport in May after flying from Cambodia.
Customs officers found two plastic drums containing pickled fish .. stuffed with one-and-a-half
kilograms of heroin .. which was about 70 per cent pure.
CONG had received threats because of a 22-thousand dollar gambling debt .. and agreed
to bring the drugs into Australia to pay off what he owed.
District Court judge GEOFFREY MUECKE said he accepted CONG was just a courier .. and
that his judgment had been affected by the situation he found himself in.
But he said the damage the heroin would have caused to users in Australia was immeasurable.
CONG was jailed for seven years .. with a non-parole period of four years.
AAP RTV tjd/els/ibw
KEYWORD: FISH (ADELAIDE)
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