{"id":76977,"date":"2026-08-21T02:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T02:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/76977\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T02:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T02:34:09","slug":"brisbane-man-allegedly-facilitated-interstate-cocaine-shipments-through-trucking-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/76977\/","title":{"rendered":"Brisbane man allegedly facilitated interstate cocaine shipments through trucking business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A Brisbane man has been arrested at the airport as part of an ongoing investigation into Australia&#8217;s largest cocaine seizure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The search warrant was executed as part of Operation Minjiang. The operation has now seized 2.78 tonnes of cocaine and 142kg of methamphetamine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">AFP will allege members of a syndicate moved the cocaine from a suspected safe house in Petrie, north of Brisbane to another location in Loganholme, in Brisbane&#8217;s south.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Kangaroo Point man allegedly then facilitated the shipment of the cocaine interstate to New South Wales and Victoria through a legitimate transport business.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-06-18\/six-men-charged-drug-importation-distribution-afp-border\/106812950\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Six charged after federal police seize $100m of illicit drugs<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Authorities executing a search warrant at a property in Mount Cotton allegedly discovered 178 kilograms of cocaine and 142 kilograms of methamphetamine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The drugs were then moved to Londonderry in Sydney&#8217;s west, police allege.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police do not believe the trucking business has any involvement or knowledge of the offending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The electronic devices seized from the Kangaroo Point home will undergo further digital forensic analysis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man was charged with one count of possessing a commercial quantity of border controlled drugs and one count of dealing with property reasonable suspected of being proceeds of crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Brisbane man is expected to appear in Brisbane Magistrates Court today.<\/p>\n<p>Sydney man charged<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A separate search warrant was executed yesterday at the Loganholme residence where police found residual packaging alleged to have been used during the trafficking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">In NSW, a search warrant was executed in Erskine Park, where police believed another member of the syndicate lived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A 23-year-old man was arrested and charged with firearm and drug offences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">AFP officers found 28g of cocaine, a semi-automatic 9mm pistol and a single barrel break action sawn off shot gun loaded with one round at the property.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"an image of a black pistol with modifications\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/37ea957c33151712d5e2e91c988e1a4e.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">A Sydney man was charged with firearm offences. (Supplied: Australian Federal Police)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">There was also $10,000 in cash police suspect to be proceeds of crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He appeared before Penrith Local Court yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Operation Minjiang remains ongoing and further charges have not been ruled out,&#8221; AFP said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;A total of 12 people remain before the courts in Queensland and NSW in relation to this criminal enterprise.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brisbane man has been arrested at the airport as part of an ongoing investigation into Australia&#8217;s largest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[103,3340,1758,99,2668,114753,15566,6889,114754,1047,114755,114756],"class_list":["post-76977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brisbane","tag-afp","tag-arrest","tag-australian-federal-police","tag-brisbane","tag-cocaine","tag-cocaine-bust","tag-erskine-park","tag-kangaroo-point","tag-operation-minjiang","tag-police","tag-police-raid","tag-trucking-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}