How much extra could mortgage repayments be, now the cash rate is 3.85 per cent? He said WA Police working with the USs Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) gave officers a skip in their step and experience in tackling high-level crime. Blanch said this was an extraordinary job by the people involved but said it was not over. This comp is for you! The Catalina crew towed Cool Runnings out to sea and allegedly transferred the inert package over to their vessel. A total of 2.4 tonnes of cocaine worth about $1 billion was prevented from reaching WA shores thanks to a secret high-risk operation involving WA Polices new transnational serious and organised crime squad and agents from the US Drug Enforcement Administration. The substance was sent to police for . Kewdale Murder Charge Australia's largest ever crime sting shows messages drug lords sent Now, a man has purchased the same Aztec Piper which brought the drugs to WA.Credit: Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. WA Police seize $10kg of meth following Dianella raid Over a number of weeks, our officers from the [AFP] Transnational, Serious and Organised Crime squad and other officers assisted to reconstruct those identical packages, and drop 1.2 tonne of those drugs into the ocean, 40 miles off the coast of Joondalup., A man is arrested by WA Police as part of a seizure of drugs being imported into Australia,Credit: Police Media. The Aztec landed at Jandakot Airport just before 4pm. A police investigation would later reveal Micalizzi was a drug runner for the Comancheros, a middleman in an international drug syndicate led by Turkish-Australian gym junkie Hakan Ayik. The four charged are expected to face Perth Magistrate's Court again this afternoon (21 May 2021). Police seize drugs form the Ellenbrook home. Officers search the black sports bag containing nearly $8 million worth of drugs stored in the cargo hold. Every year we run public campaigns to highlight different ways that people can keep safe, report crime or be challenged about their own behaviour. In the first part of the vision, WA officers who had replaced the drug with plaster of paris and made sure the packaging was identical can be seen dumping large nets containing 1.2 tonnes of the fake cocaine that were attached to orange buoys into the water. Mr Blanch said almost two weeks after the arrests at Hillarys Boat Harbour, police received information from the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission that led to a search of a car on Great Eastern Highway near Coolgardie. Police arrested a 35-year-old man and a 42-year-old woman, both from Victoria, who were inside the vehicle. (modern). They paid for the fuel and he built up his hours. WA Police seize 2.4 tonnes of cocaine.Credit: Nine News Perth/Supplied, Another individual turned up from New South Wales and we will allege he took away 200 kilograms of that 1.2 tonnes.