WA: Qantas flight attendent charged with trafficking drugs

AAP General News (Australia)
04-12-2006
WA: Qantas flight attendent charged with trafficking drugs

A Qantas domestic flight attendant .. who allegedly used his position to avoid security
and traffic drugs .. has appeared in a Perth court.

35-year-old Sydney man ANTHONY WILLIAM DOW has faced the Perth Magistrates Court charged
with trafficking up to two kilograms of methylamphetamine .. known as speed.

Prosecutor GRAEME ALLEN told the court the case against DOW is regarded as very strong
.. and he'd used his position as a flight attendant to avoid security detection.

DOW'S lawyer DAVID MANERA has told the court his client has no prior convictions ..

and is a married man with a 15-year-old stepdaughter.

He's been remanded in custody until May 10.

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KEYWORD: DOW (PERTH)

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