{"id":194218,"date":"2025-09-02T13:33:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/194218\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T13:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:33:18","slug":"dockworkers-arrested-after-1116-pounds-of-cocaine-found-hidden-behind-fake-wall-in-shipping-container-in-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/194218\/","title":{"rendered":"Dockworkers arrested after 1,116 pounds of cocaine found hidden behind fake wall in shipping container in Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three Sydney dockworkers have been charged over a massive shipment of cocaine in a law enforcement investigation into trusted insiders importing illicit drugs into Australia, authorities said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The three, aged 25, 38 and 42, appeared in a Sydney court on Monday charged over 1,116 pounds of cocaine found hidden behind a false wall in a shipping container on the Sydney waterfront on the weekend, Australian Federal Police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afp.gov.au\/news-centre\/media-release\/three-alleged-trusted-insiders-charged-mast-following-failed-506kg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said in a statement<\/a>. The cocaine had a street value of more than $107 million.<\/p>\n<p>Police said investigators arrested the man the 25-year-old suspect as he exited the shipping container. Authorities found a crowbar, an angle grinder and other tools, which they allege the man was using to cut into the false wall of the shipping container.<\/p>\n<p>Police released\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spaces.hightail.com\/space\/EiRDTm04j8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">multiple images<\/a>\u00a0of the operation.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ap25244808977204.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"Australia Cocaine Charged \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  This photo released by the Australian Federal Police, shows a cache of cocaine concealed found behind a false wall of a shipping container at a Sydney Port, on Aug. 31, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                AP<\/p>\n<p>The older two men were forklift drivers employed by a global shipping and logistics company that authorities have not named.<\/p>\n<p>Police also found $216,240 in cash which they allege is the proceeds of crime.<\/p>\n<p>All three face potential life sentences if convicted.<\/p>\n<p>The 42-year-old man was released on bail but the others were remanded in custody. They will all appear in court next on Oct. 29.<\/p>\n<p>The shipping container was sent from Europe, but the source of the cocaine remained under investigation, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The men were arrested by the Multi Agency Strike Team. The team is made up of state and federal agencies who target &#8220;trusted insiders&#8221; within supply chains that allow organized crime groups to smuggle illicit drugs into Australia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To anyone lured in by the false promise of riches from drug importations \u2013 these offenses carry the potential of life in jail,&#8221; Detective Superintendent Peter Fogarty said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afp.gov.au\/news-centre\/media-release\/three-alleged-trusted-insiders-charged-mast-following-failed-506kg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ap25244808781913.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"Australia Cocaine Charged \" height=\"775\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  This photo released by the Australian Federal Police, shows a cache of cocaine concealed behind a false wall of a shipping container at a Sydney Port, on Aug. 31, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>                AP<\/p>\n<p>Last December, Australian police seized a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/police-seize-record-2-3-cocaine-fishing-boat-australia\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">record 2.3 tons of cocaine<\/a> and arrested 13 people in raids after a fishing boat broke down off the coast of Queensland.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three Sydney dockworkers have been charged over a massive shipment of cocaine in a law enforcement investigation into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":194219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4740,79726,50,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-194218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-cocaine","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}