Police have charged 47 people on 163 drugs and weapons offences as part of ongoing operations by the State Crime Command’s Drug and Serious Crime Group targeting the production and supply of cannabis across the Sunshine Coast, Wide Bay and Capricornia districts.
In a week of proactive and co-ordinated operational activity commencing November 24, a series of search warrants were executed by the State Drug Squad as part of Operation Romeo Factor as well as by the Major and Organised Crime Squad (Rural) together with the Firearms and Cannabis Team and Sunshine Coast and Wide Bay Tactical Crime Squads as part of Operation Pine.
During the operations police executed 53 search warrants across properties from the Sunshine Coast to Gladstone, locating 18 kilograms of dried cannabis, 593 cannabis plants and 26 hydroponic systems actively being used in the production of cannabis.
Police also located and seized weapons (including 10 firearms), cannabis oil and
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