VIC:Vic police in $1M drug bust

AAP General News (Australia)
02-02-2011
VIC:Vic police in $1M drug bust

Victorian police have seized drugs with a street value of more than one million dollars
during raids on three properties in Melbourne overnight.

Officers searched properties in Hawthorn .. in the city's east .. and Mentone and Moorabbin
in the southeast .. seizing about 500 ecstasy tablets .. 140 grams of methylamphetamine
and more than 50 thousand dollars cash.

The search warrants were executed after officers intercepted a package yesterday afternoon
.. containing two kilograms of a crystal substance believed to be methylamphetamine.

A 34-year-old Hawthorn man's been arrested .. and will appear at the Melbourne Magistrates
court today.

AAP RTV md/af

KEYWORD: ECSTASY (MELBOURNE)

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