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Police arrest 11 in early morning drugs raids

By GEORGIA WESTGARTH

A PROPERTY in Nicole Avenue Dandenong was targeted by police today as part of a Victoria Police investigation into drug manufacturing and trafficking.
A series of warrants were executed from 5am around Melbourne’s south-east, and three South Gippsland towns as part of the ‘Operation Conscripted’ which is aimed at tackling methamphetamine by an alleged drug syndicate.
Police arrested 11 people in the raids, including a 33-year-old Dandenong North man.
A warrant was also executed at a factory on Frankston Gardens Drive in Carrum Downs where police arrested a 33-year-old Carrum Downs man without incident.
He is currently in custody at Dandenong Police Station assisting police.
A firearm, excavators, a forklift, trailers, vehicles, cash and illicit drugs including what is believed to be ice and GHB were seized by police.

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