Wizard drug seizure: Adelaide man arrested after police intercept drug package at Morphett Vale
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An Adelaide man has been charged with trafficking a commercial quantity of drugs, known as wizard, after police intercepted a package allegedly bought online.
Detective Chief Inspector Steve Taylor said the drugs were first detected at the International Mail Gateway in Sydney and were tracked to a 21-yaer-old man at Morphett Vale, in Adelaide's south, who allegedly collected the package last Friday.
The package contained more than 5,000 blotter tabs of a drug called 25i-NBOME also known as wizard.
Inspector Taylor said police found a further 5,700 tabs at the man's house.
The drug can cause hallucinations, psychosis, seizures and organ damage.
Inspector Taylor said it had also contributed to several deaths in South Australia and a large number of overdoses, requiring immediate hospitalisation.
"People are mistakenly taking it believing they are actually taking ecstasy or LSD, but clearly it's not that type of drug," he said.
"It's far more potent ... it's very, very dangerous."
Inspector Taylor said another package containing 400 grams of methamphetamine valued at $400,000 was found at a woman's house at Clarence Gardens last night.
He said the arrest of the Morphett Vale man and the interception of the drugs at both addresses was an example of South Australian police working with federal authorities to successfully combat high-level drug trafficking.
"People using the internet to traffic in illicit drugs should be warned that law enforcement agencies are constantly monitoring the internet and checking postal items for illicit drugs" he said.
"People that think they're operating with a degree of anonymity can be assured they're not."
The man was bailed and will appear in the Christies Beach Magistrate Court in November.
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