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 after he was arrested in his vehicle in Phillip on Friday afternoon.
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.
At about 12.20pm on Friday, police arrested the man and seized the blue Hyundai Elantra he was sitting in.
In the vehicle police located:
• 51 vapes
• $975 in cash
• About 68 grams of cannabis
• About 110 grams of a green liquid suspected to contain cannabis.
A search of his Franklin home revealed:
• More than 600 vapes
• Nine cannabis plants
• About 800 “gummy lollies” in the shape of bears or cannabis leaf
• A slow cooker with about four litres of a green liquid believed to contain cannabis
• Moulds in the shape of bears or cannabis leaf
• Drying racks
• About 500grams of dried cannabis
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.
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.
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