worlds most stupid heroin importers?

[nabraxas]

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/st...55E2862,00.html

--you have to read between the lines abit, but these guys seem complete idiots.

Drug deal crash lands

Geoff Wilkinson

09feb05

A DRUG courier unwittingly chatted to an undercover policeman shadowing him as he waited to board a plane for Nepal to collect heroin, a court was told yesterday.

Prosecutor Brent Young told a County Court jury the policeman later minded the courier's bags for him while he went to the toilet before boarding.

Five weeks later, when Andrew Caddaye returned from Nepal with more than 200g of heroin secreted inside him, the same federal police officer was waiting at Melbourne Airport to arrest him.

Murray Perrier, 65, Peter Malman, 60, Peter Tilley, 53, and Voicu Pop, 49, have all pleaded not guilty to conspiring to import heroin between mid-2002 and March 12, 2003.

Mr Young told the jury in his opening address that the four men -- "none of whom is exactly a spring chicken" -- had struck repeated setbacks.

One unexpected hitch involved Mr Caddaye falling in love with a Nepalese woman soon after arriving in Kathmandu.

He was not heard from for five days, but subsequently announced that the pair planned to marry.

"It seems that the eagle, instead of flying east towards Melbourne, had lost his way and had actually flown west to India for what Mr Perrier surmised was a dirty Delhi weekend for Mr Caddaye," Mr Young said.

Mr Tilley, he told the jury, had said in another intercepted phone call that Mr Caddaye, 42, was "just a big kid in a candy shop" who'd mixed business with pleasure.

Three potential couriers -- Shep, Dicko and Mr Caddaye's Uncle Jack -- pulled out of the planned drug run at the last minute, the jury was told.

Mr Caddaye, also known as H, HJ or the Big Boy from the North, hitchhiked from Lightning Ridge with his American pit bull-rhodesian ridgeback cross to step in after his uncle feigned illness to excuse himself the day before he was to leave for Nepal.

He volunteered two undetected heroin packages hidden in his underpants, and one from his rectum, when arrested at Tullamarine, the court heard.

Over the next seven days he produced 49 packages of heroin wrapped in plastic and condoms, and a "side order" of two packages of cannabis resin.

Mr Young said fears of increased security after the Bali bombing in 2002 had thwarted an earlier plan to send a courier from Nepal to Bali with heroin concealed in a specially made pair of shoes.

The court heard earlier that the Nepalese shoes were proof against X-rays and sniffer dogs, and capable of holding 800g of heroin.

But Mr Caddaye, who has size 15 feet, never told the Nepalese his shoe size, and was never asked.

A phone conversation played to the jury yesterday recorded Mr Perrier threatening his Nepalese supplier in October 2002.

"For six months you've . . . me and you've . . . Pop," he said on the tape.

"Don't . . . us around any more. Otherwise I will send the army in and you're dead."

Mr Young said Mr Perrier was back on the phone to Nepal within half an hour after calming down, but there was "no apology for having previously threatened a full-scale unilateral military invasion of a small foreign nation".

The court heard Mr Perrier was "so skint" later in 2002 he had to sell his couch in the Trading Post to raise more funds.

The trial, before Judge Betty King, continues. "