Behind The White Line | Ep 4 | Lovely girl
6/10/202623 min
In episode four of Behind the White Line, back in Western Australia, police continue to track the fake cocaine, as one by one, key players are caught red handed. More than half of Australia’s annual coke supply intercepted in one hit. But not everyone is happy. As two DEA agents are kicked out of Australia, a turf war breaks out between State and Australian Federal Police which will lead to bad blood for years to come.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
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Speaker 20:09
Your license, sir.
Speaker 30:10
Yes. Do you want to just, do you want to just jump out and come over this way? It's a bit unsafe where we are.
Speaker 20:13
Yeah.
Richard Baker· Host0:14
January 12, 2023, West Australian police officers have pulled over a rented Kia Carnival on the Great Eastern Highway, about 560 kilometers east of Perth. It has a Starlink satellite dish attached to the roof and is being driven by a Chinese man, Tao Zheng. Beside him in the front passenger seat is his girlfriend, Quan Quan Hu, who's also a Chinese national. The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission has given the cops a tip that there's something not quite right about this car and its occupants. This audio is from police body cams.
Speaker 30:52
Uh, are you from New South Wales?
Speaker 20:54
Yes.
Speaker 30:54
Okay.
Speaker 20:55
Travel.
Speaker 30:55
Tao, is it? How do I say your first name?
Speaker 20:57
Tao, yes.
Speaker 30:58
Tao.
Speaker 20:58
Mm.
Speaker 30:59
Well, and what's your w- wife?
Speaker 21:01
Uh, Joy.
Speaker 31:02
Joy. Joy and Tao.
Speaker 21:03
Yeah.
Speaker 31:04
We're going to search you and your vehicle under the Misuse of Drugs Act. Our body-worn cameras are recording now.
Richard Baker· Host1:08
Detective Geoff Beros picks up the story.
Geoff Beros· Guest1:11
They've had a look in the car. There's, you know, there's several mobile devices in the car.
Speaker 31:16
And there's three mobile phones which have just been seized from throughout the front passenger area.
Geoff Beros· Guest1:21
And they had a look in the back, and there was a box in there, and inside that box, there's a big sports bag, uh, which had over $2 million, uh, Australian cash in it.