Rye family gets suspended jail sentences for abalone theft

9:38 PM Mon 24 May 2010 GMT

'Abalone-Diver'

Three members of a Rye family were convicted in the Frankston Magistrate's Court last week (May 20) for taking and trafficking abalone. The father, 51, and his sons, 25 and 21, pleaded guilty to harvesting abalone from an area known as 'the divide' near Rye in January 2009. They also pleaded guilty to trafficking a commercial quantity of abalone. The court heard the men sold abalone to an undercover Police officer on two occasions during an extensive undercover operation. Magistrate Ross Bett heard the undercover officer negotiated a price to buy 58.72 kilograms of abalone which was weighed out and ...

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