USS Clueless - Big drug bust
     
     
 

Stardate 20030420.0401

(On Screen): This should be interesting, don't you think?

HMAS Stuart is escorting a North Korean vessel at the centre of a suspected international drug running syndicate into Sydney Harbour.

The trawler, the Pong Su, registered in Tuvalu and owned by a North Korean company, was seized off the New South Wales mid north coast earlier today.

It is alleged to have been involved in the importation of 50 kilograms of high grade heroin, near Lorne in Victoria last week.

In order to stop it, Australia actually had to send a frigate out, and ended up boarding the Pong Su by dropping commandos from helicopters on ropes (which is a standard boarding procedure now, but which is also really dangerous).

Update: Here's another report on that.


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