British Boxer held over Cocaine Stash

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Different one mate, Billy Joe Saunders is the traveller, Bradley Saunders is the lad from the north east.

 

DOH! Will be deleting my comment then!

 

Was he already in trouble for something that happened at the games?

 

Yeah wasnt it Bradley Saunders who got in trouble for bad behaviour in the hotel?

Or was that Billy Joe Saunders (the traveller), getting confused now!

 

I don't know, I've lost track myself!

Think it was Billy Joe in trouble for the hotel thing.

 

that was bj.

 

Saunders has denied any knowledge of the coke.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/nov/25/bradley-saunders-boxer-police-cocaine

Speaking from his parents' home in Sedgefield, County Durham, Saunders said he had been relaxing with his girlfriend after a training session when police arrived with a search warrant at his home in Sedgefield at 1pm yesterday.

"I asked them what did they want and told them to wait so that I could ring my mam, because I wanted a witness, but before I could they all burst in ... They'd finished going through my house and they were on their way out when they went through to the back garden. I'm having the house done up and the back garden is being stripped, so there is nothing out there but dirt and grass.

"Right next to the back gate was a sheet of white plastic, like a bin bag, and when they lifted it up underneath was a kind of metal biscuit tin just laid on the grass. They opened it up and said: 'What's this powder?' We were handcuffed and arrested and taken to Spennymoor police station, where we were each locked up and left in a cell for six hours."

"There was never anything in that garden," Saunders added. "I know nothing about any drugs. I have never had a criminal record. I earn a decent living and have been getting paid since I was 13 years old for boxing. There is no reason for me to be involved in drugs.

"Since the Olympics I've been the victim of quite a lot of crime. My house was burgled recently as my girlfriend and I slept. People get jealous. They can take against you."

 

So when did this happen? If it was in the last couple of days it could be powdered paint or something daft.

Unlikely of course. If it is Charlie, he is talking bollocks and knew it was there.

 

I don't think sniffer dogs pick those up.

Who knows. The police had obviously had a tip off to be there with a sniffer dog in the first place so either him or his mrs are known to the police for having large quantities of coke, or someone grassed them up, or someone planted the coke and grassed them up. I have absolutely no local or inside knowledge from which to form an opinion and I doubt many people on this site have either.

 

Ohhh, of course, sniffer dogs. Never thought of that but the article never mentions dogs and only says one of the dibble lifted a bag and found the biscuit tin.

I was thinking though (forgot to add this to my post, though I meant to) that if the powder hadn't yet been tested, it could be anything.
Copper don't go round tasting drugs they find like in the movies (well, DS might).

Saying that though, Cocaine looks and feels extremely different to powdered paint.

 

It is not true that if it is coke he knew it was there. When dealers stash large amounts, you think they want to use their own property?

Water proof bags hidden in other peoples gardens, nearby parks etc are pretty common. Provided it is a secure spot that wont be stumbled across and in view of the house...

Also people get paid to hold stuff or bullied into it. A holder keeps all the drug equipment at their home and never has callers or visitors, there is simply no trade operating out of their home, and the dealer organises the deals from their address and draws all attention (of any that may be drawn) to their drug free home.

If Saunders' prints or DNA are on the inside bag he is ****ed. If he did it and used surgical gloves to handle every plastic cover, and so on....
He wont get as long, they will struggle to prove it is his.

 

If it is coke they will know from the smell. Even if it is very very weak coke that is border line fake, it will almost certainly smell of novacaine that is used to make a buyers gums go numb (on a gum test before buying) to imply strength.

 

Good point there mate, a big crack dealer round this way just got done and it was in the local paper that he'd been stashing some gear in a old womans garden.

 

That's a very good point.

EDIT: And so is the rest of that and your next post. Novacaine doesn't really smell of anything though, especially when mixed with Coke or in a rock of crack but yeah, as you said, Cocaine does give off a slight smell.