<\/b>Police have arrested seven people, seized drugs and more than $100,000 cash, as part of an ongoing investigation targeting a large-scale drug supply syndicate operating in the NSW Central Hunter region.<\/p>\n
Strike Force Yellowbox was established in June 2015 to investigate the supply of methylamphetamine by a drug syndicate operating in the Maitland area.<\/p>\n
About 7am yesterday (Tuesday 17 May 2016), Strike Force Yellowbox detectives, with assistance from neighbouring commands, the Dog Unit, Northern Region Operational Support Group and Northern Region Rescue executed a total of 18 search warrants.<\/p>\n
The warrants were executed at residential and industrial premises as well as a hotel and storage shed within the Central Hunter Local Area Command (East Maitland, Chisholm, Thornton and Rutherford), and the Port Stephens Local Area Command (Dungog, Raymond Terrace, Heatherbrae).<\/p>\n
Three women \u2013 aged 23, 49 and 42 \u2013 and two men \u2013 aged 23 and 44 \u2013 were arrested and taken to Maitland Police Station.<\/p>\n
Three of the warrants were executed in Queensland with assistance from the Gold Coast Criminal Investigation Branch.<\/p>\n
Two males \u2013 aged 29 and 45 \u2013 were arrested on the Gold Coast and police are awaiting their extradition today (Wednesday 18 May 2016).<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old man was charged with supply prohibited drug of a large commercial quantity and knowingly direct activities of a criminal group.<\/p>\n
The 45-year-old man was charged with supply prohibited drug of a large commercial quantity, supply prohibited drugs (x3) and knowingly direct activities of a criminal group.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old woman was charged with supply prohibited drugs (x6).
\nThe 42-year-old woman was charged with supply prohibited drugs on an ongoing basis (x5).<\/p>\n
The 44-year-old man was charged with supply prohibited drug (x3), supply prohibited drug on an ongoing basis, supply prohibited drug of commercial quantity and participate criminal group.<\/p>\n
They have all been refused bail to appear at Maitland Local Court today (Wednesday 18 May 2016).<\/p>\n
The 49-year-old woman was charged with supply prohibited drug (x3). She was released on bail to appear at Maitland Local Court today (Wednesday 18 May 2016).<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old man was issued a Future Court Attendance Notice for possess prohibited drug (x2), possession or use a prohibited weapon, deal with property suspected proceeds of crime and goods in custody.<\/p>\n
Central Hunter Local Area Command Acting Crime Manager, Detective Acting Inspector Mitchell Dubojski said the arrests are a culmination of a lengthy investigation by detectives.<\/p>\n
\u201cInvestigators have been involved in numerous inquiries with the objective of shutting down a significant drug supply operation,\u201d Detective Acting Inspector Dubojski said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of the officers involved should be extremely proud of their work.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI urge anyone with information about the manufacture or supply of illegal drugs to contact police immediately. Callers should contact their local police or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police have arrested seven people, seized drugs and more than $100,000 cash, as part of an ongoing investigation targeting a large-scale drug supply syndicate operating in the NSW Central Hunter region. Strike Force Yellowbox was established in June 2015 to investigate the supply of methylamphetamine by a drug syndicate operating in the Maitland area. About … Continue reading “Seven charged following investigation into alleged large-scale drug supply – Strike Force Yellowbox”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio16","category-tcrn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}