Police have uncovered an illicit drug trafficking operation in central Queensland. Officers in Rockhampton have seized 1.6 kilograms of methamphetamine and more than 117-thousand dollars in cash in the past five months. 18 people have been charged with a total of 64 offences and more are expected.
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00:00 There are more charges coming for some of those individuals that have been charged already
00:05 as investigations are still continuing into the full extent of everybody's involvement
00:10 in these types of offending.
00:15 The seizure of drugs here in Rockhampton and also in other parts of the state was significant
00:19 for us in terms of what we see here in Rockhampton and also the cash as well.
00:26 We've had over $100,000 in cash seized in total for such a relatively short operation
00:31 is somewhat significant for this part of the state.
00:33 The value of that sort of dangerous drugs for methyl amphetamine is anywhere from $750,000
00:40 upwards to maybe a million dollars.
00:44 The people who deal in this type of product unlawfully will charge various prices so it
00:49 depends on a whole range of circumstances but we're confident that the value on a street
00:53 level is somewhere between three quarters to a million dollars.
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