She was arrested on August 24 and is due to appear in the Mount Isa Magistrates Court September 8.Ī 63-year-old Soldier’s Hill man has been charged with 14 offences including, three counts of supplying a dangerous drug, unlawfully possessing two firearms, unlawfully possessing a modified firearm, and possessing tainted property, among other offences. “We make no apologies for disrupting the life-destroying trade of Methylamphetamine in the region-a cancer that erodes the social fabric of our community-and our success in bringing offenders before the courts serves as a warning for any criminal who may seek to profit off the misery of others.Ī 30-year-old Sunset woman has been charged with 39 offences including one count of drug trafficking, and 25 counts of supplying dangerous drugs, among other offences. Throughout Operation Tango Everglade, several search warrants were undertaken with the support of the Brisbane City Tactical Crime Squad and Major and Organised Crime Squad Northern Region, accompanied by drug and firearm detection dogs and handlers.ĭuring the operation’s enforcement phase, quantities of suspected methylamphetamine, cocaine, cannabis, gamma-butyrolactone (GBL), pharmaceuticals, two firearms, quantities of ammunition, and in excess of $57,000 cash was located and seized by police. “This operation began in mid-July following a search warrant at a Beta Street, Sunset address and targeted a methylamphetamine trafficking syndicate operating between Mount Isa and Brisbane,” Sergeant Bryant said. Mount Isa District Tactical Crime Squad Officer-in-Charge Joel Bryant said police had made 13 arrests with more than 154 charges as part of the six-week operation. Raids in October 2014 un-covered the 85kg of meth stashed in colourful canvas bags in a wardrobe.ĭefence lawyer Helen Prince said Cao had been $8000 in debt to money lenders in his homeland, after borrowing money to pay rent for his sick parents.The Illicit drug trade in the Mount Isa area has been significantly disrupted thanks to the work of local police who have seized nearly $60,000 in cash, a cache of drugs and multiple firearms, as well as arresting a number of people on trafficking and supplying dangerous drug charges, as part of Operation Tango Everglade. When Cao arrived, he was found with a note containing three mobile phone numbers, two of which belonged to two of those arrested with the massive meth haul in Melbourne.Īfter he signed a rental agreement for a property in Yallambee Way, Queens Park, police observed Cao and two fellow syndicate members at the house for weeks.Īpart from trips to Crown Casino and Northbridge, the trio did very little - and the house was never left empty. In July 2014, 135kg of methamphetamine belonging to the same syndicate, with a street value of $130 million, was seized from a Melbourne apartment - the same day that Cao arrived in Australia. In 2014, they persuaded him to come to Australia to help them in their massive drug-dealing enterprise, which also had operatives stationed in Melbourne with dozens more kilos of the deadly drug. ![]() The court was told that Cao, 22, had been working at his parents’ fruit stall in his homeland but became indebted to money lenders and was preyed on by syndicate kingpins.
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