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Donna Demaio: Australian Correspondent on Lamar Aaron Ahchee's arrest for smuggling cocaine in Bali · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Don Demayo's with us out of Australia. Don a good morning,
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  Speaker 1: good morning to you. Now you've got a snap ban
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  Speaker 1: on machetes in Victoria. This is the violent brawl that
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  Speaker 1: we've seen in the shopping center.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so from tomorrow you can no longer purchase the
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  Speaker 2: machete in Victoria. And that does follow that vicious brawl
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  Speaker 2: in the shopping center in the Melbourne suburb of Preston.
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  Speaker 2: Now two teenagers sixteen and fifteen years old are alleged
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  Speaker 2: to be the main offenders. They were both on bail
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  Speaker 2: at the time. The skirmish was between rival gangs, it's
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  Speaker 2: understood and as you can imagine, shoppers going about their
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  Speaker 2: business on a Sunday afternoon were left scurrying for safety,
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  Speaker 2: absolutely petrified as to what was going on there. And
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  Speaker 2: now four mails have been charged. Police are still looking
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  Speaker 2: for three others. But the government has introduced this snap
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  Speaker 2: ban on the sale of machetes from midday tomorrow. And
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  Speaker 2: the police say that there's three machetes that had been
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  Speaker 2: seized and a total of four is believed to have
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  Speaker 2: been used in the brawl. So the Premier has come
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  Speaker 2: out and said these knives have no place on our streets.
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  Speaker 2: So these laws will get these dangerous weapons off the streets,
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  Speaker 2: according to the Premier, and they've moved as quickly as possible.
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  Speaker 2: And in her words, we must never let the places
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  Speaker 2: we gather, where families shop and enjoy the peace of
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  Speaker 2: their weekend, become places that we fear.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, that's true. But once they just use something else,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean? But what are you going
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  Speaker 1: to do? I hope not baseball bats, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean. I suppose it's a reaction, isn't it. Hey?
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  Speaker 1: You yes? What about this guy in Bali with the
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  Speaker 1: drugs chargers charges? Pretty major?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. There's an Australian man who's from Sidney, Lamar Aaron Acchi.
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  Speaker 2: He could face the death penalty for allegedly smuggling one
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  Speaker 2: point eight kilos of cocaine in Bali. The forty three
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  Speaker 2: year old was arrested. He was presented to the media,
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  Speaker 2: let's say, in an orange jumpsuit and black block clava yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: We know that the police believed the drugs, estimated to
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  Speaker 2: be worth about one point one million dollars, were imported
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  Speaker 2: to Indonesia disguised as would you believe linked chocolates in
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  Speaker 2: two separate packages. They arrived from the UK allegedly. Now
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  Speaker 2: we have heard from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs
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  Speaker 2: that they are providing consular assistance, but there's no actual
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  Speaker 2: charges being laid yet, so we're waiting to hear. Police
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  Speaker 2: don't believe that mister Archo was the mastermind. They say
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  Speaker 2: he was promised around four thousand, seven hundred Aussie dollars
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  Speaker 2: to pick up the packages.
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  Speaker 1: That's a raw deal deal for him, isn't it. Donna,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for that. Appreciate your time. Dona Demo, our
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  Speaker 1: Australia correspondent. For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge,
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