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When Kent Anthony Jackson was first taken to a Hong Kong gambling denduring a business trip, he won. Before long, he started to lose. By mid-2015 the Newcastle man racked up a $120,000debt at illegal Chinese casinos. By the end of 2017, he was attempting toimport 700kg of cocaine worth $245 million into Australiaonly to be busted by police, who had been listening to plans of thedrug runfrom Tahiti to Lake Macquarie unfold. He was sentenced to 19years and six months jail in Newcastle District Court on Tuesday for hisrole, which approached that of a middle manager, after he pleaded guilty last year to importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and dealing with the …
Read the full article at: https://www.theherald.com.au/story/5876971/lost-it-all-from-hong-kong-gambling-dens-to-prison-for-drug-smuggler/