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Prison Wallet Busted at the Airport! - Kapoho Joe - 12-11-2015
Hadn't heard of one of these in awhile!
https://local.nixle.com/alert/5546051/?sub_id=1501075
12-11-15 Three arrested in drug smuggling investigation
Hawai#699;i Police Department
Vice Section, Area II
Lieutenant Sherry Bird
Phone: 326-4646, Ext. 226
Report No. C15035794
Media Release
Three people have been arrested in connection with a suspected narcotics smuggling operation through the Kona airport.
At approximately 1:30 p.m. Tuesday (December 8), Area II Vice officers at Kona International Airport at Keahole observed as 32-year-old Kellen Foster of Kailua-Kona and 28-year-old James Bruno of Oceanside, California, exited a plane that had arrived from Los Angeles. Foster and Bruno entered a vehicle, also occupied by 21-year-old Jessica Tsibulski of Kailua-Kona, which then left the airport.
Officers observed a traffic violation and conducted a traffic stop on their vehicle on Queen Kaahumanu Highway south of the airport intersection. A narcotics canine screening on the vehicle resulted in a positive alert and the three individuals were arrested on suspicion of promoting dangerous drugs. During a search incident to arrest of Tsibulski, officers recovered two plastic packets containing a brown powdery residue, which tested presumptive positive for heroin. The three were taken to the Kona police cellblock while Vice detectives continued the investigation.
On Wednesday, Vice officers obtained body warrants for Foster and Bruno and took them to Kona Community Hospital. Upon arrival there, officers observed 40.8 grams of a brown tar-like substance suspected to be heroin smeared on the interior of the transport van in the compartment that had been occupied solely by Bruno.
During the execution of the body search warrants, officers recovered 50.3 grams of a brown tar-like substance suspected to be heroin and 12.7 grams of a white crystal-like substance suspected to be methamphetamine from Bruno’s body. They were packaged in a manner consistent with the importation of narcotics.
At 9 a.m. Thursday, Tsibulski was charged with one count each of third-degree promoting dangerous drugs and possessing drug paraphernalia. Her bail was set at $4,000, which she posted early Friday (December 11).
Bruno was charged with one count each of first-degree meth trafficking, first-degree promoting dangerous drugs, tampering with physical evidence, and second-degree criminal tampering, and three counts of possessing drug paraphernalia. His bail was set at $332,000. Bruno remained at the cellblock pending his initial court appearance Friday morning.
Foster was released pending further investigation of a possible charge of criminal conspiracy.
RE: Prison Wallet Busted at the Airport! - kalakoa - 12-11-2015
Officers observed a traffic violation and conducted a traffic stop
"parallel construction" much?
RE: Prison Wallet Busted at the Airport! - pahoated - 12-11-2015
It probably goes on all the time, heroin and meth into and up body cavities. They are probably only catching 1% because of insufficient probable cause to conduct a body cavity search. Heroin availability has gone way up with the US abandoning poppy plant eradication in Afghanistan. The US tried get the Afghans to grow food crops, they tried it, as soon as the US started withdrawing, they switched back to their cash crop, poppy plants. Apparently, on the mainland, especially the midwest, heroin addiction is becoming multi-generational, the grandparents are addicts, the parents are addicts, the kids are addicts and the kid's kids are becoming addicts. Mix that with the Republican plan to have every Amurican have at least one fire arm. Mainlander malihini, don't try to bring that crud over here.
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RE: Prison Wallet Busted at the Airport! - Tom.Yost - 12-11-2015
quote:
Originally posted by kalakoa
Officers observed a traffic violation and conducted a traffic stop
"parallel construction" much?
Doesn't get much more blatant than that. Only other possibility I can think of is informant on the other end.
RE: Prison Wallet Busted at the Airport! - Kapoho Joe - 12-11-2015
Or heavily profiled on the flight or on the ground. Mister Flexible was probably sweating bullets...
RE: Prison Wallet Busted at the Airport! - MattKarma - 12-12-2015
I believe in laissez-faire, there is a place for everything. That said there are often pressures (some political) which push unhealthy things onto us whether we like them or not.... this is wrong.