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One hell of a candy store…

In a pretty cooked seizure that makes Pablo Escobar look unimaginative AF, Aussie police have stopped millions of dollars of cocaine lollies and meth lollipops from entering the country. It seems drug traffickers are continuing to mix up how they bypass border security and the Aussie police force, but not even drugs of the confectionary kind can get past our boys in blue.

NSW police stopped a whopping 16 packages coming into Australia between November 2020 to March this year, which contained 5.83 kilograms of meth and 655 grams of cocaine in total. They’ve also traced the shipments’ intended destinations to the Northern Beaches, Parramatta, Macquarie Park, Chatswood and Ryde.

Speaking on the composition of the drugs, Northern Beaches Police Area Commander, Superintendent Patrick Sharkey said “The manufacturing and packaging of these drugs was sophisticated; and they could have easily been mistaken for the sweets they were disguised as by both children and adults.”

“It is very concerning given the drugs were uncut and had a potency that could potentially cause serious injury or death if ingested.”