Drug cartel

A secret international police operation has led to the seizure of 2.4 tonnes of cocaine and the arrest of 12 people with connections to a Mexican drug ...

They get a one off payment, and they’re dispensable. “The people that we are targeting are the people that are involved at the upper echelon because they’re harder to replace, and word gets out.” “The drugs had been seized, so the risk of 2.4 tonnes coming to our shores had been mitigated,” he said. “There’s only so much that will be gained by looking at the mules and the low-level individuals that are, I would say, a dime a dozen,” he said. “This was an opportunity to catch the syndicate, the group of people that were capable of receiving it, landing it and then distributing it across Australia. “We’ve all seen the movies, we know the reputation, and they just want to catch crooks.” “You’ve got young detectives sitting in Perth, Western Australia, and all of a sudden they’re doing a joint international operation with the DEA,” he said. “So you can see the benefit in the cartels and offshore syndicates in that they don’t need to get a great deal through, so they flood our borders because it’s worthwhile to them.” “I say that it’s a magnificent effort to defend our shores, to defend our country from the threat of organised crime,” Blanch said. Blanch said this was an “extraordinary job” by the people involved but said it was “not over”. “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.” “We had members from New South Wales, Northern Territory and one from the United States and we will allege that they were here to retrieve that 2.4 tonnes of cocaine and distribute it amongst our country.