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News (https://www.the-independent.com/news) Australian police uncover 3 tons of cocaine Police say 3 tons of cocaine found on a property on Sydney’s outskirts is Australia’s largest ever seizure of the drug Rod McGuirk (https://www.the-independent.com/author/rod-mcguirk)Sunday 21 June 2026 23:54 EDT • Copy link • Bookmark Bookmark popover Removed from bookmarks Close popover Australian police uncover 3 tons of cocaine Show all 2 Your support helps us to tell the story Read more Support Now (https://www.the-independent.com/donate?regSourceMethod=Donations) From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. 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The drug was found on June 19 in plastic tubs buried in underground bunkers hidden beneath three shipping containers on a semirural property in the suburb of Londonderry (https://www.the-independent.com/topic/londonderry) on Sydney’s western edge, the Queensland (https://www.the-independent.com/topic/queensland) Joint Organized Crime Taskforce said in a statement. The containers had false floors that provided access to the cocaine, which police estimate had a street value of 816 million Australian (https://www.the-independent.com/topic/australian) dollars ($572 million). Two Sydney (https://www.the-independent.com/topic/sydney) residents, men aged 21 and 25, were arrested at the property and charged with possessing a commercial quantity of an illicit drug. They face potential sentences of life in prison. Australia’s previous record cocaine haul was 2.34 metric tons (2.58 tons) seized in 2024 from a fishing boat near K’gari, formerly known as Fraser Island, off the Queensland state coast. Police said the cocaine found in Sydney, the capital of New South Wales state and Australia's most populous city, landed by boat at Midge Point in the sparsely-populated Queensland tropics. They allege that a Sydney organized crime group transported the drug by road to the city, a distance of 1,800 kilometers (1,100 miles), police said. 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Six people have been charged over that cocaine and 142 kilograms (313 pounds) of methamphetamine that was also found in the investigation. They suspect the mother ship to be MV Wealth, a Belize-flagged cargo ship that has been seized by authorities in Solomon Islands on suspicion of involvement in transitional organized crime. The Solomons are 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) northeast of Queensland. Australian Federal Police Commander Stephen Jay said organized crime groups were increasingly targeting Queensland’s 13,000-kilometer (8,000-mile) coastline to smuggle drugs. Australians pay some of the world’s highest prices for cocaine, which makes Australia a lucrative market for drug traffickers. 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