Sydney, Nov 21 (UNI) Australian police have arrested and charged 19 people after disrupting a major international cannabis operation.
Police in the state of New South Wales (NSW) on Thursday announced that a strike force established in December 2023 has seized cannabis worth more than 80 million Australian dollars (52.1 million U.S. dollars) and arrested 19 people connected to an international organized crime network.
The strike force conducted a raid in April 2024 on a property in Kemps Creek, approximately 40 kilometers west of central Sydney, where police identified the property was being used as a purpose-built cannabis farm following the discovery of 16 commercial sized greenhouses and infrastructure designed to grow cannabis and refine it for distribution. Over 5,400 cannabis plants were found in the property.