职业扑克选手大卫萨博已被判处14年徒刑,罪名是他试图将14.6公斤可卡因偷渡到澳大利亚。
百家乐群萨博将承受至少十年的牢狱之灾后,才能被考虑假释。
他的两名共同被告,达伦休斯和罗伯特,给予较轻判,可能刑八年,最低判五年。
这三个人承认所有罪,但法官判萨博认为,这三人幕后藏有更重要的组织者,可能在招募和吸纳走私成员。
这三名罪人从今年一月开始利用农业设备装运药物,从加拿大到悉尼。
该批货物被一直追踪到墨尔本才被截获。截获的可卡因价值估计在6.5至850万元美元之间。
译文：
Professional poker player David Saab has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for his role in trying to smuggle 14.6 kg of cocaine into Australia.
Saab will serve at least 10 years behind bars before being considered for parole.
His two co-accused, Darren Hughes and Robert Remeeus, were each given lesser sentences of eight years in jail with a five-year minimum.
All three pleaded guilty but the judge sentenced Saab the heaviest for his role in recruiting the others into the scheme and being the key organiser.
The three were arrested in January of this year after the drugs were found in a shipment of agricultural equipment to Sydney from Canada.
The shipment was tracked to Melbourne where the three were arrested and charged with importing and possessing a commercial quantity of cocaine.
The street value of the cocaine was estimated to be between $6.5 and $8.5 million.
