Virtually $5 million value of medicine have been seized throughout a police operation to crack down on a serious crime syndicate in Queensland and New South Wales.
Police from NSW and south-east Queensland focused legal networks within the Northern rivers and Gold Coast border area.
Over the two-week interval of "Operation Viking" authorities attended properties in Grafton, Tweed Heads and Ewingsdale, Bilambil Heights, and Carrara.
Officers situated seven firearms, greater than $150,000 money, and a wide range of prohibited medicine together with methylamphetamine, cocaine and hashish that they imagine have a mixed estimated road worth of $4.5 million.
Of observe through the raids, police discovered two hydroponic hashish develop labs in Carrara and a pair of.5 kilograms of hashish.
Additionally they discovered and seized chemical compounds and tools used to make medicine at Seelands, close to Grafton.
A number of arrests had been remodeled the 2 week interval.
NSW Police Performing Assistant Commissioner Jason Weinstein stated the operation has put a dent in unlawful actions between NSW and Queensland.
"The northern border zone has the state's largest OMCG inhabitants with a big crossover between NSW and QLD," he stated.
"We all know legal organisations had been establishing themselves throughout the North Coast due to its profitable drug market and a perceived concept the realm is comparatively freed from scrutiny from legislation enforcement.
"I am assured that following these two weeks that notion has modified."
Queensland Police Assistant Commissioner Katherine Innes stated the operation ought to "function a warning" to anybody seeking to perform unlawful legal exercise alongside the border.
Police will handle the media in regards to the operation afterward Saturday.