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Officers from Major and Organised Crime Squad (Northern), State Crime Command have charged two people with 25 offences following the closure of a drug operation in Townsville yesterday.
Search warrants were executed at a residence and a business in Townsville as part of Operation Papa Ire, targeting the production and distribution of methylamphetamine in North Queensland.
It will be alleged during a search of the locations officers located approximately 250 grams of methylamphetamine as well as a quantity of cocaine and more than $66,000 in cash.
Police will further allege they located two illicit laboratory sites, a loaded shotgun, two tasers and a large quantity of items of equipment and chemicals used in the production of methylamphetamine.
A 40-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman from Gulliver have been charged with offences including the trafficking and production of dangerous drugs, possession of dangerous drugs and weapon offences.
They are both due to appear in Townsville Magistrates

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Four men have been charged after another man was allegedly violently assaulted over a half-hour period outside of a licensed premises in Richmond, west of Charters Towers last month.
It will be alleged on August 23 around 11.40pm a fight broke out between a group of men in the bar area of the Goldring Street business.
It is further alleged that during the altercation a 32-year-old man was knocked to the floor and continually punched before being dragged to the outside footpath by group of men.
The men allegedly continued to kick and punch the man’s head as he lay on the ground before going back inside the premises, leaving him in the gutter.
It is then alleged that one of the men came back outside and photographed the man as he lay on the ground, kicking him back down when he attempted to sit up.
Soon after, the same group of men approached the

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A 24-year-old man will face drugs and explosives charges in Warwick Magistrates Court later this month following the discovery of an alleged clandestine laboratory in Myrtle Street, Warwick.
Police officers from the  Major & Organised Crime Squad (MOCS) Rural, Warwick Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) and State Crime Command’s Illicit Laboratory Investigation Team executed a search warrant at the residential dwelling at 8am on Monday, September 3.
It will be alleged during a search of the property, police located a bedroom which had been used for producing methamphetamine on a number of occasions and over a period of time.
It will be further alleged a quantity of glassware and chemicals associated with the production of methylamphetamine was also seized for further forensic examination, as well as a quantity of illegal pistols and ammunition.
A 24-year-old man has been charged with 14 drug and weapons related offences including possessing and producing dangerous drugs and unlawful possession

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