By Damian Marrett
Fake identities. medicines. money. possibility. All in a day′s paintings for a Drug Squad cop Made notorious by means of television sequence Underbelly and Underbelly: A story of 2 Cities, the Australian underworld has been uncovered. UNDERCOVER is the tale of an undercover detective operating to infiltrate the Australian drug scene. Damian Marrett′s penetrating but darkly comedian insights and fantastic candour offers the true tale in the back of bringing down the Griffith Mafia. After reluctantly becoming a member of the Victorian Police in 1986, Damian Marrett used to be handpicked 4 years later to paintings in a covert means for the Drug Squad. Marrett used to be so quite gifted that he used to be liable for many of the greatest drug busts in Australian legislation enforcement historical past. The younger detective is famously identified for infiltrating the possible impenetrable Griffith Mafia, in an operation codenamed Afghan that's nonetheless considered as Australia′s most complicated covert sting operation. forced to stick in...
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I was the centrepiece. Other coppers were always buzzing around me—and I must admit, I liked it. In the months beforehand I’d been involved in a few operations that were yet to run their course, but it was no secret around the office that I was after bigger and better challenges. This early on in the piece, I wasn’t sure where Patty Condro and his five pounds of grass would take me, but you never know your luck—the smallest lead can sometimes find you in the least likely places. The next morning the crew set off in two vehicles, one a standard unmarked Crime Squad number, the other a hire car.
The deal was set for Friday at the Lake Boga car park. Two pounds of cannabis, one ounce of amphetamines. Operation Bert was gathering pace. That night, we entertained some New South Wales undercovers at a restaurant in Lygon Street, Carlton, and then went on to the Chevron nightclub for some more bevvies. I couldn’t believe the cars the Sydney undercovers had at their disposal. While we were running around town in ten-year-old shitboxes, these cowboys drove turbocharged, late model Mazda RX7s with all the latest gadgets.
Five at $4400 then,’ I said. No point in stretching out negotiations over the phone. ‘Yeah. ’ ‘Twenty-two,’ I said, doing the sums for him. ‘Yeah, thanks. ’ ‘I’ll come up your way tomorrow then. ’ And that was it. We were off and running. The job was coined Operation Bert. Bert and Patti Newton. Patty Condro. Hours of police manpower came up with that one. Or about two seconds of thought time by an offsider, Phil Strawhorn. This wasn’t my first undercover job, but I was still naive, even overwhelmed.