Elderly couple receive 7 million USD worth of drugs
- IndiaGlitz, [Friday,May 03 2019]
An elderly couple living outside Melbourne, Australia signed for a package that they had not ordered only to find 10 million AUD worth of the drug methamphetamine,(7Million USD) which had been accidentally delivered to them. The police after a complaint from them found that the package was 20 kgs of the recreational drug.
A 21 year old man, Zhiling Ma was later arrested in a nearby town Bundoora where another 20 kgs of the substance was found in his possession. Methamphetamine, is a recreational drug and is a potent stimulant of the central nervous system and is banned in most countries around the world. It is sometimes used in treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and obesity.
The Melbourne police have stated that the total forty kilograms of methamphetamine that has been seized could have effectively been used for atleast for 800,000 shots by drug addicts and users which has now been averted.