20 people have been charged in a massive police operation targeting organised crime in Queensland’s Moreton district.
Police released footage today, showing officers kicking down doors, seizing drugs hidden in a toilet, and discovering cash stashed inside a couch as part of Operation Whiskey Pitt.
They seized $424,000 in cash, $100,000 worth of jewellery and a Lamborghini Huracan, valued at $350,000 during the multi-unit operation.
Police executed 21 search warrants throughout July at properties across North Brisbane including Beachmere, Joyner, Bellmere, Burpengary, Kallangur, Bray Park, Morayfield, Margate, Narangba, Murrumba Downs, Bracken Ridge, Cashmere, Chermside, Petrie, Hendra and Warner.
During the search warrants, police seized a quantity of cocaine, MDMA, mushrooms and steroids, in addition to 55kg of cannabis, 11 cannabis plants and two hydroponic set-ups.
The $350,000 Lamborghini Huracan was seized during a search warrant at Cashmere.
Of the 20 people charged, three of them were charged with trafficking dangerous drugs.
Charge details:
A 23-year-old Narangba man was charged with one count of trafficking dangerous drugs, four counts of supplying dangerous drugs, three counts of possessing anything used in the commission of crime defined in Part 2, and one couch each of possessing dangerous drugs Schedule 2 drug quantity of or exceeding Schedule 3 and receiving or possessing property obtained from trafficking or supplying.
He is due to appear in the Pine Rivers Magistrates Court on August 28.
A 40-year-old Kallangur woman has been charged with one count of trafficking dangerous drugs, seven counts of supplying dangerous drugs, two counts of possessing dangerous drugs Schedule 2 drug quantity of or exceeding Schedule 3 and one count each of contravening order about information necessary to access information stored electronically, possessing anything used in the commission of crime defined in Part 2, possessing dangerous drugs, receiving or possessing property obtained from trafficking or supplying and receiving or possessing property mortgaged/pledged/exchanged/converted from property obtained from trafficking or supplying.
She is due to reappear in the Pine Rivers Magistrates Court on September 16.
A 42-year-old Morayfield man has been charged with two counts of trafficking dangerous drugs, 118 counts of supplying dangerous drugs, two counts of possessing dangerous drugs Schedule 2 drug quantity of or exceeding Schedule 3 and one count each of contravening order about information necessary to access information stored electronically, possessing anything used in the commission of crime defined in Part 2, possessing dangerous drugs Schedule 1 drug quantity of or exceeding Schedule 3 but less than schedule 4, possessing dangerous drugs, receiving or possessing property obtained from trafficking or supplying, receiving or possessing property mortgaged/pledged/exchanged/converted from property obtained from trafficking or supplying, unlawful possession of weapons, authority to possess explosives and possess tainted property.
He has been remanded in custody and is due to reappear in the Pine Rivers Magistrates Court on September 23.
Other offences included in the total 223 charges include supplying dangerous drugs, possessing dangerous drugs, producing dangerous drugs, possessing proceeds crime, unlawful possession of weapons (taser), possessing tainted property.
