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Queensland police shut down $6.5 million interstate cannabis


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https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/queensland-police-shut-down-6-5-million-interstate-cannabis-ring-20181217-p50msq.html

 

 

Police have cracked a drug syndicate that allegedly grew and distributed 1.1 tonnes of cannabis, worth $6.5 million, during the past two years in Queensland, Victoria and Western Australia.

A "sophisticated grow house" in Sunnybank, on Brisbane's southside, containing 184 cannabis plants was raided on Thursday.

 

Police said the operation was so well-organised and professional that neighbours most likely didn't know what was going on inside.

Detective Superintendent Bruno Asnicar said other grow houses, similar to the one in Sunnybank, were found in Calamvale on the southside, Narangba, north of Brisbane, and Melbourne and Perth.

 

Mobile phones, electronic tablets, cash and equipment such as chemicals, scales and packaging items were seized from these houses.

He said they were able to supply cannabis on a "commercial" scale and stole electricity from surrounding houses to keep their power bills down and prevent suspicions being raised.

The homes were geenrally purchased by the sydnicate, isolated and well-covered and guarded to also prevent neighbours from seeing inside and reporting any suspicious activity.

 

Superintendent Asnicar said about 560 kilograms of cannabis had been found in Queensland and the rest in Victoria and Western Australia.

"The successful closure of an operation like Quebec Walkover is important because it deprives organised criminal syndicates of profit, making the community safer," he said.

 

"We will be alleging this was a sophisticated criminal enterprise involveded in the commercial production and distribution of cannabis.

"An offence which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison."

Detectives believed the syndicate had already distributed cannabis within the community, but officers were looking into it and authorities would try to recover the associated proceeds of crime.

 

Superintendent Asnicar said he was confident the sydicate had been stopped in its tracks, but police were always interested in any other potential grow houses across the state.

 

"If you’re seeing people turn up in vans and unloading 20-litre drums of growth formula or just lots and lots of product and it doesn’t seem to be fitting with the neighborhood ... they're the sort of things we're interested to hear about," he said.

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Yer that part was just fucked. If our power bill went up id call a electrician to find out why. They invest all this money but don't send a few grand for solar.

 

 

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If they're looking at power consumption as a pattern to identify grow houses having solar won't help.

 

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Unless u have a battery to run off at night, and solar [emoji108] [emoji106]

 

 

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Not even that. The power companies know what's going in and out of the grid, and can make some guesstimates. I wouldn't get solar for the purposes of masking my energy usage.

 

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