1 NZ SR2 buyer convicted

"Five arrests in $500k meth sting", 2 December 2015:

Andrew Graham Hodgson was arrested in September after he was found importing 931 tabs of psychoactive substances and a small amount of cannabis. He is due to be sentenced on three representative charges of importing drugs on Thursday in the Palmerston North District Court.

"Silk Road leads to home detention", 5 December 2014:

A Manawatu man caught importing various drugs into the country hoped they would help him pay the debts he was lumped with after his flatmates left him high and dry.

Andrew Graham Hodgson was sentenced in the Palmerston North District Court today to 12 months home detention, after he was caught importing psychoactive substances, methamphetamine and cannabis. The 29-year-old used the infamous Silk Road website to import the drugs from Canada, the United States and The Netherlands. Between July and September, Customs intercepted seven envelopes addressed to Hodgson containing 5.3 grams of methamphetamine, 10.2g of cannabis and 931 blotter tabs of psychoactive substance NDOMe [sic; 25I-NBOMe?].

Hodgson was arrested as part of Operation Hydrabad, which began on September 1 this year when the first of several packages containing MDMA and methamphetamine were intercepted by Customs officers. Another four people were arrested as part of the operation.

Defence lawyer Steve Winter said Hodgson was flatting with students in Palmerston North, but when the students moved out they left some debts behind.

So another customs interception, from the sound of it. Given he was buying in July - September 2014, and it's described as 'Silk Road', it must be SR2.


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[8 Points] None:

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[6 Points] throwahooawayyfoe:

More on Operation Hydrabad from the NZ Police website.


[3 Points] mnhty:

...importing 931 tabs of psychoactive...

...12 months home detention...

I guess this is what a sane drug policy looks like. In the USA he may have gotten life imprisonment.


[1 Points] stressedsmoker:

Only 12 months home d for all those tabs? Sounds like he got off lightly.