Cops’ shock find in juice bottles

Three men person been arrested aft allegedly attempting to import $400m worthy of meth hidden successful a consignment of foodstuff bottles successful a associated cognition with Canadian police.

The AFP launched an probe into an alleged transnational transgression syndicate aft Canadian constabulary identified 1.2 tonnes of liquid meth successful a shipment from Brazil successful May.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police replaced the meth with an “inert substance” earlier the shipment was allowed to proceed onwards to Queensland via a instrumentality ship.

The AFP swooped aft the shipment arrived successful the Sunshine State, arresting 3 men astatine a spot successful Jimboomba and astatine a buying centre successful Brisbane’s southbound past week.

The men, aged betwixt 30 and 43, person since been charged with attempting to person a commercialized quantity of an unlawfully imported borderline controlled drug.

If recovered blameworthy and convicted, the men look a maximum punishment of beingness imprisonment. They faced Brisbane Magistrates Court past week and stay successful custody connected remand.

Testing by Canadian authorities revealed the liquid meth had a purity level of up to 89 per cent, though the AFP said it would besides behaviour its ain investigating of the drugs.

AFP Acting Commander Adrian Telfer said if converted, the drugs equated to an estimated thoroughfare worth of astir $400,000 oregon equivalent to 4 cardinal idiosyncratic thoroughfare deals.

“If converted to crystal meth and sold into the Australian community, this magnitude of liquid methamphetamine would person led to home violence, assaults and contributed to the roadworthy toll arsenic good arsenic lined the pockets oregon organised crime,” helium said.

“Through this cognition the AFP, moving with our partners successful Canada, has prevented a ample magnitude of this illicit cause from reaching our communities and causing harm and enactment a sizeable dent successful the wallets of organised crime.”

The seizure was besides welcomed by Canadian authorities, with Royal Canadian Mounted Police Pacific Region Deputy Regional Commander Chief Superintendent Stephen Lee stating “transnational transgression has nary borders”.