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's love affair with cocaine has exploded in the last 20 years, with the appetite for the drug across the city becoming increasingly 'insatiable'.
TV actors, models and wannabe gangsters who pose on in bikinis or with luxury cars displaying their tattoos and gangster bling have been arrested, convicted and sent off to jail.
Bureau of Statistics figures released this year showed a 12.5 per cent increase of cocaine use and possession arrests over the five years until 2020, whereas drugs like ecstasy had declined in popularity.
Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission suggests the nation's base of cocaine users is 'broadening', with a growing social acceptability of the drug.
Drug manufacturers of cocaine in South America see Australia as a lucrative market for 아벤카지노 large exports due to its high price - about $300 a gram - on Sydney

NSW Police Minister David Elliott slammed the 'cocaine culture' which is particularly rife in Sydney's eastern su

Glamorous Bondi 'drugs pin-up girl' Danielle Tara Hogan has just been jailed for a maximum three years and 10 months for supplying 580 bags of cocaine in 370 deliveries across

The 26-year-old, who posted photos of her lavish holidays, designer clothes and dinners at trendy beachfront bars despite being unemployed, is in prison for at least 17 months and won't be eligible for parole until Apr

Last year, hairdresser and glamour model Wethbet Almaali, also known as Lara Dior, was found unconscious behind the wheel of her pink Mercedes less than five months after she was caught driving with cocaine in her s

She pleaded guilty to drug driving and was slapped with a

Some, like former reality TV star Jordan Finlayson who fell into the grip fo a $5000-a-week drug habit and lost years of her young life to cocaine-fuelled parties, only received a relatively short s

Glamorous Bondi 'drugs pin-up girl' Danielle Tara Hogan has just been jailed for a maximum three years and 10 months for delivering 600 bags of cocaine acros

The 26-year-old (being arrested, above) who posted photos of lavish holidays and designer clothes, is in prison for at least 17 months and won't be eligible for parole until Ap

Bondi party boy Darren John Mohr, 46, was jailed for a maximum 32 years over a $150m cocaine importat

The onetime Beauty and the Geek runner-up and ex-Penthouse model was caught dealing drugs in April 2020 and was jailed for a maximum 2 years and 3 months, but released in September th

Although her 18 months among female criminals in three different women's prisons left her traumatised and 'deeply ashamed', her jailing comes as no surprise after years of massive cocaine

In April this year, police arrested designer-clad bikies after raids on gang strongholds where they seized bags of cash amounting to $1.2m, luxury cars, Rolex watches, Louis Vuitton sunglasses and 12.5kg of illicit drugs worth $12m, including Christian Dior-plated bricks of

Just two months earlier, a massive 13kg of cocaine worth $5.8million was found hidden inside an air cargo consignment from Greece to Sydney of Capri wafer ice cream cone pa

Last year, Bondi party boy Darren John Mohr, 46, was jailed for a maximum 32 years over a $150m cocaine importati

The hulking former cafe owner had conspired to import 500kg of cocaine from Chile to the Sydney fish markets by boat in

Glamour model Wethbet Almaali, aka Lara Dior, was found unconscious behind the wheel of her pink Mercedes less than five months after she was caught driving with cocaine in he

Robbery and Serious Crime Squad detectives seized a revolver, ammunition, more than 965g of cocaine, and $290,000 cash in a vehicle stop on December 8 i

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After seeing the sights of Sydney women's prisons during minimum sentences of more than four years each, the French Canadian pair have now been deported back home and will never be able to travel her

Glamorous Canadians Melina Roberge and Isabelle Lagace (above) showed off their luxury cruise stops before arriving in Sydney where they were escorted off the MS Sea Princess to separate women's prisons for four pl

Police seized almost a kilo of cocaine, a gun and $290,000 cash after stopping a car in Neutral Bay (right) in early December and arrested a 28-year-old man who was refu

Sydney 'eyebrow queen' Kristin Fisher was caught in a vehicle with bags of cocaine at her feet, but after pleading guilty to drug possession had her conviction

Sydney 'eyebrow queen' Kristin Fisher was luckier after being caught at a dial-a-dealer hotspot in a car with bags of cocaine at h

She pleaded guilty to drug possession, had her conviction annulled and received a six-month community release order, but in sentencing her, Magistrate Ross Hudson said cocaine was a 'stain' on the co

NSW Police Minister David Elliott has previously said that while cocaine may be 'the drug of choice for the city's elite, that won't protect them from a cold jai

'The use of any illicit drug is unacceptable,' he said, 'regardless of the demographic or reason and I'll be backing our police 100 per cent in their battle to rid this poison from our com

But he's not talking about anyth

The photographs of cocaine dealers, snorters and drug crime queens and kings  from a century ago are not as racy as today's on In

But those facing Sydney's court after being arrested over cocaine in the 1920s and 1930s were just as caught up in the drug as their contemporaries ar

Australian Federal Police prepare to burn 25 tonnes of seized drugs worth more than $5 billion including 1.3 tonnes of cocaine which went up in smoke in specialised

Reality TV star Jordan Finlayson descended into a $5000-a-week drug addiction which saw her attending cocaine-fuelled parties before she ended up serving time i

A judge found Mohr - described in court as narcissistic, ego-driven and self-centered - had conspired to traffick drugs for 'money, prestige' and the extravagant lifestyle he flaunted on soci

Sidney Kelly was a well-dressed drug trader and criminal of the 1920s who owned a motor car and associated with criminals and pro

The roaring twenties post-World War I were fast times when brand new crimes, and illicit markets for alcohol, cocaine and opium gave birth to a new trade in S

The 1920s criminal underworld erupted in a violent turf war of the so-called razor gangs when new laws on firearms were introduced into Au

On the tough streets of inner Sydney in the late 1920s, those operating the sly grog and illegal gambling trades seized on an opportunity to make even mor

Beforehand, cocaine had been a substance administered by pharmacists and d

But the financial rewards for selling 'snow' and creating a whole clientele of addicts was soon r

Infamous cocaine peddler Lillian Sproule was a 'parasite in skirts' who 'raked in the money while dopers suffered' and cut the cocaine - known as 'snow' - by 30 per cent with bora

The corner of Liverpool Street at Riley Street (above) in the heart of the inner city Sydney suburb where crime was rife and razor gangs fought over turf to peddle cocaine and

According to the book Drug traffic: Narcotics and organised crime in Australia by Alfred McCoy, an 'ounce of cocaine purchased from a retail chemist for 22 shillings could be adulterated with boracic acid to make 250 street packets worth five shilling

That is a profit of more than 50 times the original o

Sydney police called Charles Passmore 'King of the Underworld', but in the newspapers of the time he was known as the 'Cocaine King of Kings

Passmore had a string of convictions, for fraud, theft, selling illegal alcohol, armed robbery and dealing cocaine and he employed a gang to act as street dealers for his cocaine e

Police considered Passmore a criminal mastermind with great acumen for coolly making money from illicit drugs and black marke

In 1929, he calmly smoked a cigar down in the cells below Central Criminal Court after a judge sentenced him to 12 years at the age of 57 to robbery under arms and wounding a bank

'Human vulture': Sydney's 'Cocaine king' admitted he took cocaine 'like Aspro' and was said to have left 'a long trail of ruined women' addicted to the drug  he sold them mixed with powdered

Disfigured snorter: Amy Lee had once been attractive but 'had the bone of her nose eaten away' by sniffing cocaine which was cut with powdered glass and boracic acid, and with her features distorted was now 'a d

Passmore was described in court as 'an absolute human vulture' who had 'ruined more lives and people in this city than any other

Passmore admitted that he had 'taking cocaine for the past 30 years just as other people take

It was reported that Passmore had left 'a long trail of ruined women' and that 'many girls can attribute their downfall to Pa

The Sydney Evening News cited the case of one young woman who was 'a splendid specimen of girlhood' but that had gone after associating with P

'Now with her nose terribly disfigured from the sniffing of glass and boracic passed off as cocaine, she is walking the streets of Darlinghurst - a de

The newspaper was probably referring to Amy Lee, who was described in court as a 'good looking girl until she fell victim to the foul practice' of snorting co

Arthur Edward Murray pictured in the Sydney police cells after veing detained in the era when cocaine went from being a dentist's sedative to a lucrative drug known colloquially a

'Botany May' Smith was 'clever cunning and violent' and became a major drug dealer in the late 1920s, moving large amounts of cocaine from her Surry Hills

Her dry, blotchy skin at the age of 41 was testament to the evils of addi

Fined 250 pounds in 1929 for cocaine possession, Lee had 'the bone of her nose eaten away' by 'continual sniffing at the white powder.

or the powdered glass the unscrupulous sell ... until her features are distorted or rep

Tasmanian Lillian Sproule became involved in Sydney's cocaine trade in the same era and was 'the most persistent' dealer police had conta

The infamous cocaine peddler was known as a 'parasite in skirts' who 'raked in the money while dopers suffered' and cut the 'snow' by 30 per cent with borac

She had multiple convictions relating to drug dealing and when police came knocking at the door of her flat, they watched her running to conceal tins of the powder underneath her m

Sidney Kelly was a well-dressed and well-known criminal who operated as an illegal baccarat gamer and drug trader in th

He drove his own motor car when that was rare, wore snappy suits and associated with prostitutes and other crimin

Barmaid Patsy Neill became involved in theft and selling cocaine and argued with the infamous Kate Leigh which led the crime queen threatening Neill wi

Queen of the Sydney underworld, Kate Leigh (above) peddled cocaine and sly grog from her Surry Hills terrace house and fought a turf war with Tilly Devine, who ran pro

William Stanley Moore was a wharf labourer turned dealer who operated with 'large quantities of faked opium and cocaine' and associated with water front thieves and illicit traders at the docks where consignments of drugs came in

Sydney's underworld bosses of the time were tough, resolute and violent and that included the women, two of whom were so notorious their infamy has survived into this

Kate Leigh was a sly grogger and and cocaine dealer known as 'queen of the underworld' who lived in Sydney's crime-infested streets in inner city Surr

Her biggest rival was Tilly Devine, who ran a prostitution ring and the pair fought a public and violent rivalry, with Leigh getting her minions to slash Tilly's in the infamous 'razor ga

In return, Tilly's hired thugs attacked her Leigh's cocaine peddlers, although Leigh also had battles with competitors in the illicit cocaine and alcohol

Phillip 'Phil the Jew' Jwas involved in sly grog, theft, prostitution, cocaine and illegal gambling, and had influence, with friends in the police force, business and pol

Fay Watson was arrested in a house in Crown Street, Darlinghurst, and subsequently convicted for having cocaine in her possession, for which she was fined te

William Stanley Moore was a wharf labourer turned dealer who operated with 'large quantities of faked opium and cocaine' and associated with water front thieves  at the docks where consignments of drugs came in

He became quite wealthy and survived being shot during a 1929 gang war and afterwards kept the criminal's code of silence about his as

Another cocaine dealer who could keep her mouth shut was 'Botany May

Her nickname came from her origins, in the industrial Sydney suburb of Botany, which is now near Sydney

Operating out of her Terry Street, Surry Hills terrace, Smith ran a brothel, sold stolen property and supplied cocaine to other

Sydneylivingmuseums.com.au describes Smith as 'clever, cunning and v

In 1922, Sophia Street, Surry Hills was the scene of the murder of railway worker, Francis Charles Kennedy just near May Smith'

She testified in court that the accused brother and sister - who later got off the murder charge - assaulted and robbed passers by hnear her house, causing her to keep a a loaded pistol by her sewing machine Smith went on to be a major drug dealer in the late 1920s, moving large amounts of cocaine from her Terry Street

'The most evil woman in Sydney' was how Ada McGuinness was described by police who charged her with cocaine possession and she was sentenced to a year's har

Ada's daughter Hazel was arrested on charegs of cocaine but was later released on a bond after detectives said she had been raised in 'an atmosphere of immorality and

One of the most active cocaine dealers in the Darlinghurst area in Sydney, Ada McGuinness was described by a police witness as 'the most evil woman in Sy

In 1925  under the alias 'Edith Cavanagh', she had been sentenced to twelve months for having in her possession forged bank

In 1929, McGuinness was convicted of two charges of having cocaine illegally in her possession, for which she was sentenced to concurrent six and twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour. Her daughter Hazel McGuinness also faced the court at the same time, on similar charges, but was released on a bond.Police described a raid on the McGuinnesses' Darlinghurst house during which the mother Ada threw a hand bag containing packets of cocaine to her daughter, shouting, 'Run Hazel!'But detectives spoke up for Hazel McGuinness in court, arguing that she had been led into crime by her mother who had raised her in 'an atmosphere of immorality and dope'.

Hazel was given a suspended sentence.