John William Mills
- Born: 31 May 1964, Brisbane, Queensland Australia
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Thirteen men pleaded guilty to being involved in Queensland's largest ever drug importation, conservatively valued at $64 million.
The Supreme court in Brisbane was told John Alexander Roy, 32, a self employed company director, yachtsman and concretor, of Bli Bli, was alleged to have been the coordinator of the Importation.
Prosecutor Glen Rice said Roy was the coordinatorof the group who were all in some way involved in shipping the 8 tonnes of cannibus into a landing near the remote coastal township of Poona , north of Tin Can Bay, early on December 13, 1996.
This importation was easily the largest cannabis importation in Queensland, Mr Rice said. It eclipses the previous importation of five tonnes into Maryborough in August, 1944.
The ocean going yacht The Highlander met a supply vessel in the Pacific near the Solomon Islands and picked up the cannabis before comning into land near Poonah.
Others who had pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of knowingly conspiring to import cannabis resin were John Heaps Roy, 57, John Garrett Lambert Fowles, 41, marine surveyor of Buderim, Richard Burt Hughes, 30 of Broadbeach on the Gold Coast,John William Mills,33,of Iluka, Northern New South Wales, Jacobus Leo Van Der Lelie, 50, of Connondale, Gregory Bruce Hudson, 38, of Cooroy, Graham Herbert Eaton, 36, of Woorim, Sunshine Coast, Stephan Mark Cronin, 34, Fisherman, Currumundi, Sunshine Coast, Brian Norman May, 45, farm labourer, of Palmwoods, John Eric Ramen, 40, boat builder of Mooloolaba, Ronald Brannen Brown, 50, of Hawaii, and Brent Edward Hillier, 49, meat worker of Auckland, New Zealand. Another 5 men are yet to be dealt with. Mills and Hughes were to be responsible for transport of the cannabis.
The sentencing hearing before Justice Glen Williams, is expected to take a number of days.
" Taken from the pages of the Gympie Times Tuesday, February 3, 1998"
On Thursday the 5th July it was printed in the Gympie Times that
John Alexander Roy was sentenced to 14 years jail and the rest of them were sentenced from 7 years to 10 years jail for their part in the crime.
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