Behind The White Line | Ep 6 | It's complicated
6/24/202631 min
In episode six of Behind the White Line, with a dozen people pleading guilty following the cops’ audacious fake cocaine sting, instead of celebrating the success of Operation Beech the fallout between enforcement agencies is bitter, as an entirely new threat emerges along with the next wave of drugs bound for our shores.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
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Speaker 20:09
[gavel banging] All rise.
Richard Baker· Host0:12
Throughout 2024 and 2025, 11 of the characters charged in Perth as part of Operation Beach faced the WA District Court for sentencing, all pleading guilty to a charge of attempting to possess a huge amount of cocaine with intent to supply or sell, except for Quan Quan, who pleaded guilty to laundering money from proceeds of a major offense. The remarks of the various sentencing judges make for sad reading about the lives they left behind and the reality of who carries most of the risk in big-time drug trafficking. This is an actor reading Judge Linda Black's remarks to the five young Pacific Islander origin men who crewed the drug retrieval boats.
Speaker 20:56
Some of you were tricked. Some of you just chose to shut your eyes and not look. Some of you could see, but didn't wanna think too hard about what was actually going on. I imagine that the last few years in jail has probably taught you far more than anything I can say today about how foolish each one of you were for making those quick snap decisions, perhaps motivated by greed, perhaps by loyalty, perhaps by friendship, but the consequences to all of you, I accept, is devastating. Devastating upon each of you and your families.
Richard Baker· Host1:28
Her Honor conservatively