48 year-old Reza Eshghabadi and his 40 year-old wife Ashraf Nabiloo were guilty of importing opium from the Middle East. The couple used photo frames to hide 1.5 kilograms of opium. Police and customs officials caught Eshghabdi and his wife Nabiloo in November 2003 at Vancouver International Airport, while the couple were waiting for two shipments of opium. Eshghabadi and Nabiloo are opium addicts. The police found two sets of digital scales and many drug related devices in the couples apartment in North Vancouver. However, this pair of opium addicts said the scales are used for weighting their lovebirds. The couple were found guilty in their second trial. I don’t see the purpose of holding extra trials. Governments should make drug dealers suffer from long sentences and increase their penalties. This is the only way to reduce drug smuggling.
http://www2.canada.com/northshorenews/news/story.html?id=36481f28-4090-4f97-9164-80027d10a7f2&p=1
Jennie Yang
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student // September 27, 2009 at 2:49 pm |
and. now,where are they?????
stuartyetman // November 15, 2009 at 4:04 pm |
Extra long trials are unfortunate because they waste the government’s money that could be spent on more important things. However, increasing penalties for drug smuggling may disuade some, but the promise of money that can be earned still rises above it. Perhaps greater surveillance and montoring of drugs would be helpful…It is difficult to say because the ‘war on drugs’ has been basically a failure.