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Subscriber only A Gold Coast man with little criminal history has been jailed for nine years for attempting to smuggle 3.8kg of cocaine into Australia from Thailand, with Border Force agents at Gold Coast Airport having no trouble finding the packages stuffed into his suitcases lining. Palm Beach man Michael Alexander Curtis, 36, pleaded guilty in Brisbane Supreme Court on Thursday to the Commonwealth charge of importing a commercial quantity of a border controlled drug. His Legal Aid defence counsel, Ed Whitton, told the court it was a tragedy Curtis, a nondescript agricultural worker, would be so bafflingly stupid as to agree to courier the drugs, which carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.
Gold Coast man jailed after trying to smuggle in more than $1million of cocaine from Thailand
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Bafflingly stupid ploy to smuggle cocaine from Thailand
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