Federal authorities have raided homes across three Australian states and territories, seizing cash and finding buckets and utes full of drugs.
A cross-state cocaine bust has seen eight men and a woman with alleged links to a “ruthless” Columbian drug cartel arrested, and a clandestine coke laboratory in rural Queensland shutdown.Eight men and a women will face court over their alleged links to an international cocaine syndicate operating in AustraliaAn alleged drug laboratory was also raided in rural Queensland during the operation
“It will be alleged the man … received instructions from overseas about a shipment of cocaine smuggled into NSW,” the AFP said in a statement. Five men and a woman were also arrested in Queensland overnight, police said, including two men at a rural property in Durong, about 300 kilometres northwest of Brisbane, where they were allegedly running a drug lab to manufacture commercial quantities of cocaine.
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