The New South Wales government of Australia issued a statement on the 11th saying that the police seized 1.039 tons of cocaine near the coast of the state and arrested 5 suspects involved in the case.
The statement said that based on the intelligence obtained in advance, the police stopped a 13-meter-long motorboat 450 kilometers north of Sydney on the morning of the 9th and found 1.039 tons of cocaine packaged in 1,110 blocks on the boat.
The police arrested two men on the boat, aged 24 and 26 respectively. They were charged with participating in organized crime and supplying a large amount of prohibited drugs. On the same day, three other men were arrested while driving two cars to leave the nearby coast. They were aged 28, 29 and 35 respectively. They were charged with the same crime.
The Parramatta Bail Court in western Sydney refused bail for the five people on the 10th, and they will appear in court again on July 15 this year.
Australian Federal Police officer Stephen Dametto said that many criminal gangs are trying to use Australia’s long coastline to smuggle drugs by ship, and the Australian police will crack down on them resolutely.