Police seize $11m of Cannabis at Toowoomba

[Dotts]

Trafficking charges after police seize cannabis worth $11 million, Toowoomba - Queensland Police News

Toowoomba detectives have charged a man with trafficking dangerous drugs after police seized cannabis with a street value of nearly 11.2 million dollars

mypolice.qld.gov.au

Trafficking charges after police seize cannabis worth $11 million, Toowoomba - Queensland Police News

Toowoomba detectives have charged a man with trafficking dangerous drugs after police seized cannabis with a street value of nearly 11.2 million dollars

mypolice.qld.gov.au

Toowoomba detectives have charged a man with trafficking dangerous drugs after police seized cannabis with a street value of nearly 11.2 million dollars earlier this month.

Around 4.50pm on December 7 officers from the Toowoomba Tactical Crime Squad intercepted a utility on the Warrego Highway, near the intersection with Postsman Ridge Road at Helidon.

It will be alleged police located a large cardboard box in the rear seat containing 20 bags of cannabis, with police also finding an additional four boxes containing 78 bags of cannabis in the rear of the utility.

In total approximately 44 kilograms of cannabis was seized with an estimated street value of $264 000.

The driver and sole occupant of the vehicle, a 37-year-old New South Wales man was arrested.

Investigations by police lead them to a storage facility in Toowoomba where detectives executed a search warrant on December 8. Police allegedly located five boxes containing approximately 59 kilograms of cannabis with an estimated street value of $354 000.

On December 9 detectives from Toowoomba Tactical Crime Squad executed a search warrant on a Willow Springs, Clifton property with police allegedly locating 3015 cannabis plants, of varying sizes and worth an estimated 10.5 million dollars, in a well-established cannabis crop.

The acreage property had an extensive green house and drying shed with sophisticated lighting, irrigation and ventilation systems. These plants have since been destroyed.

The 37-year-old man has appeared in the Toowoomba Magistrates Court charged with one count each of trafficking dangerous drugs, producing dangerous drugs, supplying dangerous drugs, offence to buy or possess schedule 4 medicine, and three counts possess dangerous drugs and two counts of possess anything used in the connection of crime – Drugs Misuse Act.

He has been remanded in custody to appear in the Toowoomba Magistrates Court on February 14.

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Interesting the offence of "to buy or possess schedule 4 medicine".

 

[Billygoat]

sick set up.

That is an interesting one Dotts. never heard it mentioned before.. Seems a little contradictory using dangerous drug and medicine in the same list of charges. lol

 

[Pikey]

At least for once they haven't grossly over exaggerated the street value. @ just under $2800 for a P, I'd go as far to say they have grossly underestimated the street value, especially with what numptys are still willing to pay up this way.

 

[Old fox]

Pity the poor bastards low down in that criminal chain, whose job it is to trim a 3500 plant harvest. Ouch

 

[benn0]

wait "offence to buy or possess schedule 4 medicine"? thats new

 

[Anoma]

Investigations by police lead them to a storage facility in Toowoomba

On December 9 detectives from Toowoomba Tactical Crime Squad executed a search warrant on a Willow Springs, Clifton property

So either he was growing at his registered address, or they threatened him with outrageous charges and he folded, or it's his first time dealing with police and he shit himself.

Either way, that's a huge setup he had going. It's a pity the police photos are so shit on their website, I wanted to see how sophisticated it was.

 

[nugget]

Fark, nice effort. Sucks for the fall guy that's not a one man job.