Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: NormsRevenge

Wonder what they are into in your area?


8 posted on 11/08/2007 9:30:04 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]


To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

this is what’s been going on in Oz:

http://www.australian-news.com.au/Tim_Priest.htm

The rise of Middle Eastern crime groups in NSW (Excerpt)

It was about 1995 to 1996 that the emergence of Middle Eastern crime groups was first observed in New South Wales. Before then they had been largely known for individual acts of anti social behaviour and loose family structures involved in heroin importation and supply as well as motor vehicle theft and conversion. The one crime that did appear organised before this period was insurance fraud, usually motor vehicle accidents and arson. Because these crimes were largely victimless, they were dealt with by insurance companies and police involvement was limited. But from these insurance scams, a generation of young criminals emerged to, become engaged in more sophisticated crimes, such as extortion, armed robbery, organised narcotics importation and supply, gun running, organised factory and warehouse break ins, car theft and conversion on a massive scale including the exporting of stolen luxury vehicles to Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries...


11 posted on 11/08/2007 9:41:07 PM PST by Fred Nerks (Fair dinkum!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies ]

To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Good question.

dope probably.
industrial espionage perhaps.
china needs competition yaknow.


12 posted on 11/08/2007 9:43:36 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies ]

To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"Wonder what they are into in your area?"

Jewelery?

18 posted on 11/08/2007 10:30:03 PM PST by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson