More than 300kg of heroin siezed by authorities in Queensland
Authorities have intercepted 336kg of heroin in a shipment sent from Malaysia to Brisbane — the largest seizure of the drug ever detected in Queensland and the second-largest on record for the entire country.ABF officers detected the illicit drugs inside two concrete blocksThe Australian Federal Police and Australian Border Force said in a statement that the drugs seized had an estimated street value of $268.8 million and represent more than a third of Australia’s annual heroin consumption.
They allege an Auburn man collected the delivery in a rented truck and took it to an industrial shed in Mount Druitt last week."AFP investigators then executed a series of search warrants at businesses and homes in NSW and Queensland, including at Brendale in Queensland and Mount Druitt, Blacktown, Auburn, Cecil Park and Constitution Hill in NSW," federal police said.
The 55-year-old man has been charged with one count of importing a commercial quantity of border-controlled drugs and one count of attempting to possess a commercial quantity of border-controlled drugs.The shipment arrived at the Port of Brisbane last month.