May 17, 2011

A couple of weeks ago

This has to be the worst story of the day, according to The Telegraph UK Border Agency has allegedly found a large quantity of drugs and a firearm in trucks belonging to Paul Birds WSBK Kawasaki team.
The trucks were stopped at Dover after returning from Italy (the team raced at Assen April 17th) where officers allegedly found 18lbs (8kg) of cocaine, 157lbs (71kg) of amphetamine tablets and more than 220lbs (100kg) of cannabis. A handgun and 35 rounds of ammunition were also found.

Four technicians (Philip Roe, 40, mechanic and truck driver, Gary Matthews, 50, a truck driver and tyre technician; Mattia Fontana, 27, an Italian mechanic, and Daniel Swyer, 32, a mechanic) were arrested on suspicion of firearms offences and importing controlled drugs and were later bailed.

The team is scheduled to take part in next week’s WSBK round at Monza, but no word has come from Paul Bird on the matter.

My new favorite racing team / A family that plays together stays together.

6 comments:

IMT Transport said...

no cheeb? aint to party like a trashy truck driver party

OldStuffsFuckinMental said...

Seems to be very easy to get to those transporters without anyone noticing.
Could be possible that some drug pusher wanted to get his stuff moved from Holland to Italy or so.

Pretty unbelievable story nevertheless....

The HQ said...

Aye carumba. Be super curious how this unfolds. Guess you could reference my avatar to see how I feel about such matters, in general...

Travis said...

This just proves that shit's gone full circle now hasn't it?!

sharperdill said...

So, what did they do wrong?

Lee said...

They got caught