Police searches follow ecstasy discovery

By Rebecca Fraser and Shaun Inguanzo
FEDERAL police scoured Dandenong last week for information relating to one of the country’s biggest police seizures of ecstasy.
On 30 June Australian Federal Police and Customs uncovered 1.2 million ecstasy tablets and made three arrests in an operation spanning Victoria and New South Wales.
The tablets weighed 350 kilograms and carried a street value of $40 million, police said.
The haul is believed to be the second largest seizure of the prohibited drug in Victoria and one of the largest in Australian history.
An AFP spokesman said soon after the arrests police searched suburbs across Victoria including Dandenong for evidence relating to the case.
The spokesperson said the container of drugs arrived from Canada, via Hong Kong, on 4 June and was selected by customs officers for inspection at its Port Melbourne facility where it was x-rayed and then unpacked.
Plastic containers filled with liquid were uncovered. On closer inspection customs officers allegedly found more than 1.2 million tablets. Of the 180 containers of ink, 67 were allegedly found to contain ecstasy tablets.
Authorities then replaced the drugs with fakes and monitored the delivery to an address in Clayton.
There, the boxes were unloaded and transferred to Sydney before being taken to a home in Yagoona, Sydney last Thursday.