There are many, many reasons why you shouldn’t take a bag of cocaine home if you stumble across it sitting alone in a Sydney park. Obviously, it’s illegal. But if you see a woolies paper bag stuffed to the brim with bricks of the devil’s disco dust, you better believe someone is watching ready to beat and/or arrest your ass. And, just like a parable passed on from generation to generation, that’s what happened at a playground in Sydney last month.
Back in August, police watched on as a man they allege to be Houssam Khoder Agha dropped off a brown paper bag with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cocaine next to children’s play equipment at Locke Park in Wetherill Park. The package apparently sat there undisturbed for a minute before another man swung by to collect the goods before climbing back into his silver Toyota Hilux.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, police tracked the recipient for a few blocks before pulling him over and finding the 1kg bag of booger sugar sitting proudly on the back seat.
Police call this kind of handover a “dead drop” and investigators believe it’s a typical method for a group of Sydney’s leading cocaine peddlers called “The Commission”. Police allege that the group uses quaint little parks, reserves, quiet streets and commercial car parks around Sydney to pass the nose beers from one person to another.
Police allege that The Commission’s operation is coordinated by Jibreel Bakir, who then utilised his brother Laith Bakir and associate Akrom Hamzy to store “bulk quantities of cocaine at their residential addresses”. The group distributed the goods using Khoder Agha and Khalid Mohamed, with Duy Phuong Nguyen allegedly involved in laundering the group’s profits.
The group — which are thought to be the big dogs in cocaine supply in Sydney — have slowly been arrested by police over the last few months, with five more arrested after 20 early morning raids across Sydney. The Commission is believed to have supplied Sydney with $1.8 billion worth of cocaine in only four months.
Police Commissioner Karen Webb told reporters that the group was “allegedly one of the most dangerous and destructive groups Sydney has seen to date”.
“The supply of cocaine to Sydney has continued to poison this city for years and has fuelled and funded the organised tit-for-tat violence police see today,” she said.
So, while we all know that drugs are bad and incredibly illegal, please take this as a reminder to never pick up a seemingly abandoned brick of cocaine from a Sydney park. You never know who is watching.
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