Five men and women have been charged with drug offences, soon after detectives seized hashish plantations truly worth an estimated road value of $1.7 million from two rural attributes in the Lockyer Valley, west of Brisbane yesterday.
Detectives from the Crime and Intelligence Command’s Drug and Critical Crime Team, with assistance from the Ipswich Tactical Criminal offense Squad and Laidley police executed a research warrant at a Redwood Travel, Brightview rural house yesterday early morning.
The property consisted of 4 greenhouses containing 4,581 hashish crops of various dimensions, along with hydroponic escalating chemicals, irrigation and machinery, which police will allege was employed for the huge scale production of hashish.
Police also seized 28 kilograms of dried hashish located in a shed on the property.
5 adult men – two 27-calendar year-olds, a 46 calendar year-outdated, a 36-calendar year-aged and a 21-calendar year-old had been billed with making hazardous medications, possessing unsafe prescription drugs and possessing something employed in the fee of a criminal offense. All are owing to appear in Ipswich Magistrates Courtroom right now (May perhaps 18).
As portion of the investigation, detectives executed a next search warrant on a Boyces Highway Mount Tarampa house yesterday afternoon, in which a greenhouse with a refined hydroponics program and a more 144 hashish crops ended up seized.
State Drug Squad Detective Acting Inspector Stephen Thiry said law enforcement allege both attributes were being remaining employed by a felony syndicate for the significant scale generation of cannabis.
“This was a sizeable hashish manufacturing and we will proceed concentrating on and dismantling these productions and the illicit proceeds of prison syndicates specified the possibility they pose to the group,” Detective Acting Inspector Thiry reported.
“Investigations stay ongoing and we encourage the group to report suspicious conduct to Criminal offense Stoppers,” Detective Acting Inspector Thiry reported.
