<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <docID>328584</docID> <postdate>2024-09-07 10:43:21</postdate> <headline>Vietnamese man on vaping supply charges</headline> <body><p><img class="size-full wp-image-328586" src="https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/AFP202409067829821vapes_014-resized-e1725669529538.jpg" alt="" width="699" height="466" /></p> <caption>Some of the vapes seized by police.</caption> <p><strong>A 24-year-old Vietnamese national is the first person to be charged with Commonwealth supply and possession of vaping goods offences in the ACT </strong><strong>after he was arrested in his vehicle in Phillip on Friday afternoon.</strong><strong>  </strong></p> <p>Police say they watched the man conduct multiple exchanges of goods from his vehicle at multiple locations across the ACT. Many of these exchanges occurred with teenagers in school uniforms.</p> <p>At about 12.20pm on Friday, police arrested the man and seized the blue Hyundai Elantra he was sitting in.</p> <p>In the vehicle police located:<br /> •   <em>51 vapes </em><br /> <em>•   $975 in cash </em><br /> <em>•   About 68 grams of cannabis </em><br /> <em>•   About 110 grams of a green liquid suspected to contain cannabis.  </em></p> <p>A search of his Franklin home revealed:<br /> •   <em>More than 600 vapes </em><br /> <em>•   Hydroponic growing equipment </em><br /> <em>•   Nine cannabis plants </em><br /> <em>•   About 800 "gummy lollies" in the shape of bears or cannabis leaf </em><br /> <em>•   A slow cooker with about four litres of a green liquid believed to contain cannabis </em><br /> <em>•   Moulds in the shape of bears or cannabis leaf  </em><br /> <em>•   Drying racks </em><br /> <em>•   About 500grams of dried cannabis </em></p> <p>Police believe the man is responsible for a significant volume of illegal vape and cannabis distribution in the ACT with analysis of bank statements across a recent three-day period showing deposits totalling almost $6500.</p> <p>The man has been charged with possessing property suspected to be the proceeds of crime, trafficking in cannabis, supplying vaping goods in Australia, possessing a commercial quantity of vaping goods.</p> </body>