Tag: australia
Elderly couple mistakenly sign for package, find $10M in meth inside
An elderly couple in Australia mistakenly signed for a package sent to the wrong address that contained $10 million worth of meth, according to a report.
The pair in the Melbourne suburb of Werribee quickly called police after the box holding 44 pounds of methylamphetamine wound up in their possession Wednesday afternoon, Nine News reported.
Detective Acting Senior Sergeant Matthew Kershaw said the couple was “unsure” about the package that was delivered to them and “they asked each other if they ordered anything,” according to the news outlet.
Police ultimately seized the drug bundle and tracked down the suspect responsible — 21-year-old Zhiling Ma of Melbourne, according to Nine News.
“When you think about it, $10 million worth of drugs sent to the wrong address, that’s quite incredible to comprehend that someone could be that sloppy,” Kershaw said.
Investigators raided an address in the suburb of Bundoora tied to Ma and found an additional 44 pounds of meth, the report said.
Ma was charged with importing a marketable quantity of a border controlled drug, according to the news site.
He was remanded into police custody.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/05/02/elderly-couple-mistakenly-sign-for-package-find-10m-in-meth-inside/
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Toddler stuck ‘used condom’ from McDonald’s in mouth: report
A McDonald’s customer in Australia says she was “sickened” to find her 2-year-old daughter stuck a “used condom” she found at the chain in her mouth, according to a report.
The little girl’s mom — who only wanted to be identified as Wendy — said her daughter now requires STD testing after the incident Friday night at the fast-food joint in Perth, the local 10 daily reported.
“I don’t know how it happened but when my husband next looks at her, she’s sucking on a black condom,” Wendy said. “I ran into the bathrooms, washed her mouth and hands and came out and gave her a drink.”
The couple said they rushed their daughter to a doctor — who suggested they retrieve the condom from the restaurant for testing, according to 10 daily.
But the McDonald’s reportedly refused to give the condom back to them.
“What if there is an STD there and my daughter is going to get it? We have to wait two months to do a blood test on her,” the mom said.
A McDonald’s spokesperson said the restaurant was investigating the incident.
“We are very sorry that the incident occurred, and take situations like this seriously,” the rep said. “Cleanliness and safety are our top priorities and we ensure the shift manager on duty conducts what we refer to as a travel path every 30 minutes.”
via: https://nypost.com/2019/04/22/toddler-stuck-used-condom-from-mcdonalds-in-mouth-report/
Nun busted for smuggling cocaine in high heels
A Missouri nun smuggled 2 pounds of cocaine into Australia using her high heels — but claims she was duped into the act by a man she met online.
Denise Marie Woodrum, 51, was caught arriving into Sydney Airport last August while making her way through customs — when officers discovered the drugs stuffed into the heels of her shoes, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Monday.
But her lawyer, Rebecca Neil, told District Court Judge Penelope Wass last week that the items were meant for a mystery man Woodrum had met online named Hendrik Cornelius.
“She was groomed to provide a financial gain for this person, Hendrik Cornelius, whatever person or persons it was behind this identity,” Neil said, according to the paper.
“She went on this trip thinking she was bringing artifacts for him.”
After a failed marriage and major health problems that led to crippling bills, Woodrum, a sister of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, a religious order based in Kansas, believed she had met someone special online.
“Can you promise you will never leave me?” she had texted him last July. “You are my Only and First True Family!!!”
Despite exchanging hundreds of texts with Cornelius, Woodrum had never met him face to face — and her lawyer claimed she was just a “vulnerable” woman who had been preyed on.
Woodrum pleaded guilty in January to importing a commercial quantity of a border controlled drug — but there are still questions surrounding how much she knew about what she was smuggling.
Wass questioned the claim that Woodrum was duped by an online lover, finding it “inconsistent and unbelievable.”
“I am less than convinced by her explanation,” she said, according to the Herald.
Prosecutor Ben Dunstan urged the judge to find that Woodrum knew she was bringing in cocaine as part of a plot she had full agency in.
Woodrum had flown from Missouri to Texas and then to Trinidad and Tobago on July 18. The next day she traveled to Suriname in South America, and on July 25 she texted someone named “Stacie”: “This whole trip is paid for and will get additional payment for work.”
On July 30 she texted Cornelius, “Riding in his car to get stuff no signature needed,” and on Aug. 2, she texted him a list of expenses for hotels and flights and then departed to Sydney.
When stopped at the airport, Woodrum said she’d come to Sydney to see the Harbour Bridge and the aquarium and that the shoes in her suitcase were a gift for her mom.
After being told the slingbacks tested positive for cocaine, she reportedly replied: “Why, how much did you find?”
She later told investigators she’d been given gifts and clothes in South America to give to people in Sydney. All the while, Cornelius was sending her messages that read: “Are you ok?” “What are you doing honey?” “Shuttle?” “In taxi?”
Woodrum has been in custody since the day she was arrested and will be sentenced next month.
Meanwhile, her dad, who lives in Illinois, said his daughter’s arrest “was a big shock to the whole family.”
“It just came out of the blue,” her father, Tom Rozanski, told the Herald.
Rozanski said his daughter was a former teacher with a master’s degree in marketing who suffered from depression and had undergone a hysterectomy.
“All of a sudden she met someone she talked to,” he told the paper. “She said she was going to be doing some traveling.”
“Life took a turn. She has never done anything like this before, and this experience has been difficult for me to understand. Mostly because none of our family has had anything happen to them that even remotely resembles what Denise has done,” he added.
“I’m just hoping the best for her, that’s all I can tell you.”
via: https://nypost.com/2018/08/13/nun-busted-for-smuggling-cocaine-in-high-heels/
Photo credit: Australian Border Force
Man guilty of photoshopping stepdaughter’s head onto porn
A man who photoshopped his teenage stepdaughter into pornographic photos involving himself said he did so because he was morally outraged about her blossoming sexuality.
However, Brisbane District Court Judge Leanne Clare on Monday dismissed his claims as “implausible,” saying his sexual obsession with the girl he had raised since she was two warranted 12 months behind bars.
The court heard the creation of the images took place in late 2014, just months after he was given a suspended sentence for touching the same girl’s genitals while she slept.
He used Photoshop to digitally add images of the girl when she was about 13 onto the bodies of adult women engaged in sexual acts with himself. He also created an image of her engaged in bestiality with a dog. The man, now 51, was arrested in September 2015 after being caught with around 100 images on hard drives in his luggage as he returned to Brisbane from a trip to South Africa.
He described the photos as “artworks” and said there was no sexual motivation behind their creation.
However, he pleaded guilty to four charges including possessing or producing child pornography material outside Australia, and importing and exporting objectionable goods without approval.
His lawyer, Colin Reid, urged the court to accept the man’s claims, saying he had “unusual beliefs” about promiscuity.
He told the court his client created the photos after his stepdaughter, then aged 16, told him she was becoming sexually active with her boyfriend. Judge Clare was sceptical.
“On material that I currently have before me, I find your client’s explanation not credible,” she said.
“Perhaps you were jealous of her interest in other people, but what you did was hardly an act of parental concern.” She sentenced the man to two years’ jail but ordered he be released on a good behaviour bond after serving 12 months.
The 51-year-old was arrested in September 2015 after being caught by customs officers with around 100 images on hard drives in his luggage as he returned to Brisbane from a trip to South Africa.
He is being sentenced on Monday in the Brisbane District Court on four charges including possessing or producing child pornography material outside Australia, and importing and exporting “tier two goods” without approval.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/01/15/man-guilty-of-photoshopping-stepdaughters-head-onto-porn/
Woman killed autistic teen to cross murder off her ‘bucket list’
A British woman was “euphoric” to have ticked off an item from her “bucket list” – murder, prosecutors said.
Jemma Lilley was convicted Wednesday of killing autistic 18-year-old Aaron Pajich in Western Australia in June of last year, fulfilling her sick obsession to kill someone before her 25th birthday, the Independent reported.
Pajich was strangled, stabbed to death and then buried in a shallow grave covered with concrete and tiles.
Lilley, 26, who was found guilty along with her 43-year-old pal Trudi Lenon, was so “full of herself and euphoric” afterward, she bragged to a work colleague about the killing, prosecutors said.
The disturbed woman, who moved to Australia from Stamford in Lincolnshire, England, six years ago, also had a fascination with serial killers.
She penned a book called “SOS” — and assumed the identity of the main character, a killer in the storyline, prosecutors said.
“The book was a big problem with me. At the beginning I was, ‘Fair enough you want to write a horror story’, but I didn’t like the contents of it,” her stepmother Nina Lilley told The Times in the UK.
“She had always had an obsession with serial killers but she said it was a way of venting her frustration of what happened when she was a child.”
Jemma Lilley and Lenon lured Pajich to their home in Perth and murdered him in a tarp-covered room with blacked-out windows. The two women blamed each other during the five-week trial.
Lilley sent Lenon a text in the hours after the murder, saying, “I am seeing things I haven’t seen before, and feeling things I haven’t felt before. It is incredibly empowering, these images — thank you.”
Lenon answered, “You are welcome SOS.”
The jury deliberated for less than three hours before returning a guilty verdict. The pair is awaiting sentencing.
“They’re just disgusting animals,” Pajich’s mother, Sharon, said.
via: http://nypost.com/2017/11/02/woman-killed-autistic-teen-to-cross-murder-off-her-bucket-list/
Australian Speaker gets drug on Social Media after spending AU$5,000 on 50 mile flight
Bronwyn Bishop, the Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives is under fire for spending AU$5,227 (~$4000) of the taxpayers’ money on an 80-kilometer (50 miles) from Essendon Airport in Melbourne, Victoria to a golf course in nearby Geelong.
Some are noting that the flight was intrinsically unnecessary as Bishop’s flight took approximately 45 minutes but it only takes ~55 minutes to drive from Melbourne to Geelong. She spent ~AU$4,500 to save 10 minutes.
Naturally, Bishop’s colleagues in the Liberal Party are defending her strange choice saying she was following the transport allowance policies. But the people aren’t convinced, former speaker Peter Slipper was fired and investigated after spending $900 on taxis to go to Canberra wineries, which, like Bishop, he offered to pay back but unlike Bishop he wasn’t allowed to.
As this tea came out, many people also found out that Bronwyn spent $90,000 of the taxpayers’ money on a trip to Europe where she was applying for a new job, which sadly (for Australians), she didn’t get.
Some people have noted that a blog post on the Liberal Party’s website which singles out Peter Slipper for ‘misconduct’ has suddenly been deleted. Others have been going in on Bronwyn with many funny memes and macros.
The song that plays whenever Ti shows “all the Twitter memes” is below. You should play it while looking at them.