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[–]Deafcunt 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Thursday, 28 August 2014 08:39:25 AM

Detectives from the Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad (MEOCS) have arrested a man and seized a large quantity of prohibited drugs and a Glock pistol after discovering a steroid lab inside a family home.

As part of an ongoing investigation into the supply of steroids in south-west Sydney, MEOCS detectives executed a search warrant at a home on Rosemont Street, Punchbowl, shortly before 1pm on Tuesday (26 August 2014).

Inside the premises, officers found and seized:

  • A five litre beaker, containing a liquid form of steroid, inside an oven;

  • More than 2,900 individual vials of liquid injectable anabolic steroids;

  • Approximately 700 bottles containing oral anabolic steroids;

  • A Glock 17 pistol; and,

  • 12 magazines, all of which were loaded with 9mm ammunition.

Cash, electronic equipment, a safe and five motor bikes were also seized from the property.

The potential street value of the seized steroids is estimated to be in excess of $365,000.

Due to the amount of chemical substances located within the premises, which is home to two adults and three children under the age of 16, officers moved all occupants from the residence and sealed it off for processing by HAZMAT staff attached to Fire and Rescue NSW.

One resident of the home – a 43-year-old man – was arrested and taken to Campsie Police Station, where he was charged with a total of 26 offences, including:

  • Commercial manufacture of prohibited drugs (steroids) in circumstances of aggravation;

  • Commercial supply of prohibited drugs (steroids);

  • Possession of an unauthorised prohibited weapon; and,

  • Driving offences.

The man was refused bail and appeared in Bankstown Local Court yesterday (Wednesday 27 August 2014). At yesterday’s court appearance, he was refused bail by a magistrate to next appear at Burwood Local Court on 22 October 2014.

Police are urging anyone with information about this incident to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or use the Crime Stoppers online reporting page: https://www1.police.nsw.gov.au/. Information you provide will be treated in the strictest of confidence. We remind people they should not report crime information via our Facebook and Twitter pages.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

the Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad (MEOCS)

???!

See my reply to /u/durgsrbad for more, but I am now paying no attention to the actual topic of this thread because I had absolutely no knowledge there was such an issue there. (I had a bad experience there once and never really knew exactly why.)

If they had no issue naming a task force against the region as opposed to a generic-sounding "'foreign' organized crime squad" then I assume there is a blatant anti-brown-people or sentiment in that country? I don't mean to be politically correct, I mean most countries at least try to pretend they're not targeting a particular population.

Is there a particular reason for it? I am so curious now as I hadn't known this before.

Sorry to hijack!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah they have a serious problem with lebanese mafias etc. In the UK we have Operation trident which is publicly dedicated to black-on-black crime.

In the USA you have police forces, which are mostly dedicated to the same thing, you just call them police.

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