Man jailed for packing printer with something more expensive than toner: Cocaine
Class A drugs loaded instead of A4
An Australian court has sentenced a man to nine years in jail for smuggling cocaine inside printers.
According to a post from Australia’s Border Force and Federal Police, in 2017, “officers intercepted a consignment of five printers … locating 10 packages of compressed white powder concealed within their paper trays.”
Initial tests suggested the substance was cocaine – 22.4kg of it – so Border Force swapped it out for another material and then shipped the package to its intended destination.
Four men picked up the printers, at which point authorities swooped.
The gears of justice can grind slowly in Australia, so the matter didn’t reach court for years. One of the accused was found not guilty. In 2022, another received a ten-year sentence. Another got the same term last year.
The fourth man – who Australian authorities have described as a “syndicate member”...
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