A Sydney father and son with alleged hyperlinks to organised crime have been charged after a $24 million cocaine bust in Western Australia.
Brendon Khalil, 53, and his son Simon, 25, have been charged with importing 66 kilograms of cocaine found in automobile tyres in Perth.
Police allege the duo has hyperlinks to the infamous Hamzy and Alameddine crime households in Sydney.
The lads had been arrested final Friday after they went to a house in Nollamara and allegedly collected dozens of packages of what had been purported to be cocaine however as a substitute had been a innocent substance planted by police.
Khalil had flown in from Sydney earlier that day whereas his son had arrived the evening earlier than.
Police allege 4 West Australians additionally charged over the drug importation plot had already reduce aside the tyres to entry the 56 packages of cocaine hid inside.
The Sydney pair allegedly collected the packages, which had been positioned inside baggage and a cardboard field, and briefly stopped at a resort earlier than driving to a buying centre.
Police may even allege the Khalil pair opened no less than one of many plastic-wrapped blocks to check the contents earlier than dumping all of them in a skip bin exterior the buying centre.
Australian Federal Police swooped on the pair quickly after and arrested them earlier than retrieving the discarded packages.
Each males have been charged with important drug importation expenses which might carry a sentence of life in jail.
They'll face court docket at this time.
AFP Superintendent Graeme Marshall mentioned police suspect the lads had been going to take the cocaine again to NSW to be distributed.
"The price of this greed is paid by the Australian neighborhood. A few of these prices cannot be measured – such because the impression on each frontline paramedic, physician, nurse or police officer who will get assaulted by drug-affected individuals; folks dwelling in concern of gang-related violence leading to a stray bullet of their kid's bed room; or somebody whose dad or mum, baby, accomplice or pal does not make it residence due to a automobile accident with a drug-affected driver," Marshall mentioned.