Suspected-dealer-attempts-to-flush-scales

Here is an extract from Fairfax NZ News via NZ News Portal  http://stuff.co.nz

A suspected meth dealer's attempt to flush away a zip-lock bag of P was foiled when a set of electronic scales jammed the loo en route to the sewerage system.

Hamilton City tactical coordinator, Senior Sergeant Freda Grace, said armed officers helped carry out a search of the Fairfield property yesterday.
"I understand he was trying to get rid of the scales, that he was using for weighing the methamphetamine, down the toilet," she said.
"It was a very small set of scales."
She said police suspect the man may have successfully flushed some product down the toilet before they got inside the house, but the 32-year-old offender failed to destroy "a large quantity" of suspected methamphetamine due to the blockage.- © Fairfax NZ News

The  story with full artice can be found here
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/8737180/Suspected-dealer-attempts-to-flush-scales

A.C.A.B. says the scales needed today are mostly to measure down to 00.01 or One Hundredth of a gram they come from factories in China. The scales were only up until Y2K until then they were only able to be obtained via the jewellery industry, the Jewellers as well as the criminals needed the ones that could measure small quantities of jewels, gold, drugs etc. The only way for criminals to obtain them was to order via Jewellers or Jewellery Supply Companies. “Tamiata” costing between $700 to $1200 were the industry preference and standard throughout the 1990’s in New Zealand. Why?

Because of the industry standard held by the jewellery fraternity they were the only ones permitted to cross the customs controlled borders. Packages crossing at the border documented as non Tamiata made scales were immediately opened and seized.

Pre Y2K and raising rapidly after Y2K new different sorts of scales started to appear on the streets of NZ. A.C.A.B. witnessed these new models that were coming on to the streets back when he was still involved  at that time the ones that started coming in to NZ from China were better disguissed , How? Why? BecausetThe Chinese factories where these were being made were now labelling the packaging of NZ's destined cargo as “Computer Parts” providing false invoices and customs declarations as parts or components of a P.C. for example “modem cards” or "VGA cards".
 

A.C.A.B.  knows of numerous website address's that sells illegal devices such as these types of scales needed by dealers, GPS and Cell-phone Jammers, trackers and all sorts of illegal GPS/3G/4G related technologies for many different dubious products. They take your order via PayPal and send you the package along with tracking code labelled “computer parts”.

A.C.A.B.  says since he became no longer a day to day drug abuser/dealer he states the Chinese are still disguising their products for easier deception of border controls world wide. Here are pictures of a deceptive set of these types of scales