{"version":1,"id":"au/nsw","name":"New South Wales, Australia","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/country/au/nsw/","count":10,"totals":{"reports":10,"arrested":87,"plants_destroyed":70003,"hectares":0,"kg_seized":3103.69,"deaths":0},"by_type":{"eradication":2,"seizure":1,"raid":7,"arrest":0,"prosecution":0,"sentence":0,"execution":0,"death":0},"latest":"2024-11-21","reports":[{"id":"nsw-strike-force-heradale-80m-cannabis","code":"CET-XTKFBX","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/nsw-strike-force-heradale-80m-cannabis/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/XTKFBX/","date":"2024-11-21","added_at":"2026-11-04T00:50:26.078Z","added_at_source":"recorded","updated_at":null,"country":"au/nsw","country_name":"New South Wales, Australia","place":"Kemps Creek, Bringelly, Rossmore, Calderwood and Canley Vale, Sydney and Illawarra","coordinates":[-33.82,150.77],"precision":"district","type":"raid","also":["arrest"],"title":"NSW police charge 19 in $80m syndicate raids across Sydney and Illawarra","summary":"NSW Police say an 11-month operation against a transnational crime network growing cannabis on an industrial scale ended with 19 arrests and seizures of more than 23,000 plants and 586 kilograms of harvested cannabis, valued by police at more than $80 million.","status":"verified","figures":{"arrested":19,"kg_seized":586,"plants_destroyed":23000,"value":{"amount":80000000,"currency":"AUD"}},"tags":["strike-force-heradale","transnational-crime","hydroponic"],"cover":null,"media":[{"kind":"photo","url":"https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-21/police-seize-80-million-in-cannabis-and-arrest-19-people-in-nsw/104629218","media_url":"https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/e905af8f92d50c51fd0d2fe98c0b8bd9?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=3333&cropW=5000&xPos=0&yPos=0&width=862&height=575","publisher":"ABC News","caption":"A large shed found by NSW Police at Kemps Creek, supplied by NSW Police.","archived":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260221102724/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-21/police-seize-80-million-in-cannabis-and-arrest-19-people-in-nsw/104629218"}],"cfi_id":null,"created_by_model":"muse-code/muse-spark-1.3#xhigh","open_questions":["The wire report counts over 5,400 plants at Kemps Creek and over 20,000 plants overall while the ABC quotes police as over 4,400 and more than 23,000; the report uses the ABC figures.","The opened sources name none of the 19 people arrested and give no court outcomes; police said investigations were continuing.","Other NSW Police-supplied photographs on the ABC page are no longer served at recoverable direct addresses, so only the Kemps Creek shed photo is listed."],"sources":[{"title":"Police seize $80 million in cannabis and arrest 19 people in NSW","url":"https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-21/police-seize-80-million-in-cannabis-and-arrest-19-people-in-nsw/104629218","publisher":"ABC News","date":"2024-11-21","archived":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260221102724/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-21/police-seize-80-million-in-cannabis-and-arrest-19-people-in-nsw/104629218"},{"title":"Australian police charge 19 people in major cannabis bust","url":"https://dailyworld.in/international/australian-police-charge-19-people-in-major-cannabis-bust-585056.html","publisher":"DailyWorld","date":"2024-11-21","archived":null}]},{"id":"dandry-record-cannabis-seizure","code":"CET-5GT9AG","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/dandry-record-cannabis-seizure/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/5GT9AG/","date":"2022-01-18","added_at":"2026-11-04T00:19:45.031Z","added_at_source":"recorded","updated_at":null,"country":"au/nsw","country_name":"New South Wales, Australia","place":"Dandry, New South Wales","coordinates":[-31.15,149.3667],"precision":"locality","type":"seizure","also":["arrest"],"title":"Police seize 19,000 cannabis plants in record NSW bust","summary":"Strike Force Harthouse detectives raided a rural property at Dandry in January 2022, seizing more than 19,000 cannabis plants valued at about A$66.8 million. Six people aged 23 to 42 were arrested and charged over what police called the biggest cannabis bust on the New South Wales record.","status":"verified","figures":{"arrested":6,"charged":6,"value":{"amount":66800000,"currency":"AUD"}},"tags":["dandry","strike-force-harthouse","record-seizure"],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":null,"created_by_model":"muse-code/muse-spark-1.3#xhigh","open_questions":["The exact police tally of 19,082 plants and about 11.5 tonnes comes from the ACIC and NSW Police release, whose page timed out and could not be reopened; the report uses the outlet's rounded figures.","The same article reports a separate February 2022 raid at Ellangowan seizing 16,500 plants, a different event left out here.","No trial or sentencing outcomes for the six charged were reported in the opened source.","No event photo could be verified: the article's image could not be matched to this raid, and the police release page would not open."],"sources":[{"title":"NSW Police Cannabis Blitz","url":"https://tafemedia.com/nsw-police-cannabis-blitz/","publisher":"TAFE Media","date":"2022-02-25","archived":null}]},{"id":"taree-minimbah-13353-plants-raids-2020","code":"CET-G28V59","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/taree-minimbah-13353-plants-raids-2020/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/G28V59/","date":"2020-10-23","added_at":"2026-11-03T13:03:16.421Z","added_at_source":"recorded","updated_at":null,"country":"au/nsw","country_name":"New South Wales, Australia","place":"Minimbah, Melinga and Moorland, near Taree, New South Wales","coordinates":[-31.911,152.461],"precision":"district","type":"raid","also":["arrest","seizure"],"title":"NSW Police seize 13,353 cannabis plants near Taree and arrest 14","summary":"Detectives spent 22 and 23 October 2020 raiding three rural properties near Taree, seizing 13,353 cannabis plants and 39 pounds of dried cannabis worth a police-estimated A$40 million. Fourteen Vietnamese nationals were arrested and refused bail in what police called possibly the largest Australian cannabis seizure since the 1970s.","status":"verified","figures":{"arrested":14,"kg_seized":17.69,"plants_destroyed":13353,"value":{"amount":40000000,"currency":"AUD"}},"tags":["strike-force-harthouse","indoor-grows","vietnamese-nationals"],"cover":null,"media":[{"kind":"photo","url":"https://www.australiantimes.co.uk/news/giant-nsw-cannabis-crop-worth-40-million-goes-up-in-smoke/","media_url":"https://www.australiantimes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/00b29233-cannabis-2.jpg","publisher":"Australian Times (NSW Police)","caption":"Seized cannabis going up in smoke after the Taree raids"},{"kind":"photo","url":"https://www.australiantimes.co.uk/news/giant-nsw-cannabis-crop-worth-40-million-goes-up-in-smoke/","media_url":"https://cdn.australiantimes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/c562f6f9-cannabis-1.jpg","publisher":"Australian Times (NSW Police)","caption":"Part of the cannabis crop found near Taree"}],"cfi_id":null,"created_by_model":"muse-code/muse-spark-1.3#xhigh","open_questions":["The raids ran over 22 and 23 October, so 23 October is the end of the two-day operation rather than a single raid date.","The opened reports do not give the outcome of the charges beyond the refusal of bail.","One outlet prints \"13 million plants\" in a headline but gives 13,353 in its text, so this report uses the 13,353 figure both outlets state."],"sources":[{"title":"Police make 14 arrests after $40million cannabis drug bust on NSW mid north coast","url":"https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-8878297/Police-make-14-arrests-40million-cannabis-drug-bust-NSW-mid-north-coast.html","publisher":"Daily Mail Australia","date":"2020-10-26","archived":null},{"title":"Giant NSW cannabis crop worth $40-million goes up in smoke","url":"https://www.australiantimes.co.uk/news/giant-nsw-cannabis-crop-worth-40-million-goes-up-in-smoke/","publisher":"Australian Times","date":"2020-10-27","archived":null}]},{"id":"mudgee-turill-cannabis-crop-2009","code":"CET-S628Z8","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/mudgee-turill-cannabis-crop-2009/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/S628Z8/","date":"2009-03-06","added_at":"2026-11-03T23:10:04.600Z","added_at_source":"recorded","updated_at":null,"country":"au/nsw","country_name":"New South Wales, Australia","place":"Cliffdale Road, Turill, 80 km north of Mudgee, New South Wales","coordinates":[-25.764,134.304],"precision":"country","type":"raid","also":["arrest","eradication"],"title":"Strike Force Bokhara seizes $4m cannabis crop near Mudgee","summary":"More than two dozen NSW police raided an isolated 600-acre farm at Turill on 6 March 2009, seizing about 1,500 mature cannabis plants worth an estimated $4 million. Four men were arrested at the scene after days of covert surveillance.","status":"verified","figures":{"arrested":4,"plants_destroyed":1500,"value":{"amount":4000000,"currency":"AUD"}},"tags":["strike-force-bokhara","drug-squad"],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":null,"created_by_model":"muse-code/muse-spark-1.3#xhigh","open_questions":["Both opened pages reproduce the same NSW Police account, so the facts rest on a single police source.","The four men were taken to Mudgee Police Station to assist inquiries; no charges were reported.","Police announced TV footage and still photographs of the operation, but no direct photo or video address could be recovered.","Officers also searched an address at Lake Heights and seized documents; that search's outcome was not reported."],"sources":[{"title":"Drug Squad detectives seize and destroy $4m cannabis crops – Mudgee","url":"https://www.bluelight.org/community/threads/the-australian-nz-drug-busts-mega-thread-part-deux.364641/page-8","publisher":"NSW Police Force (media release reprinted on Bluelight)","date":"2009-03-06","archived":null},{"title":"Police seize $4m cannabis crop near Mudgee","url":"https://stickypointmagazine.com/cannabis_news_2009_03_march.php","publisher":"Cowra Community News (via StickyPoint Magazine)","date":"2009-03-07","archived":null}]},{"id":"nimbin-cannabis-eradication-operation","code":"CET-STQ0CR","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/nimbin-cannabis-eradication-operation/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/STQ0CR/","date":"2009-02-06","added_at":"2026-11-03T21:20:17.474Z","added_at_source":"recorded","updated_at":null,"country":"au/nsw","country_name":"New South Wales, Australia","place":"Nimbin and surrounding districts, Northern Rivers","coordinates":[-28.596,153.222],"precision":"locality","type":"eradication","also":["arrest"],"title":"1,790 cannabis plants seized around Nimbin; seven arrested","summary":"Police searched a dozen districts around Nimbin over five days, seizing 1,790 cannabis plants worth $3.5 million. Seven people face cultivation charges.","status":"verified","figures":{"arrested":7,"charged":7,"plants_destroyed":1790,"value":{"amount":3500000,"currency":"AUD"}},"tags":["nimbin","cannabis-eradication-program"],"cover":null,"media":[{"kind":"photo","url":"https://www.420magazine.com/community/threads/drug-raid-chopper-makes-a-school-stopover.88324/","media_url":"https://www.420magazine.com/gallery/data/759/EGN-raids_2.JPG","publisher":"Echo News (via 420 Magazine)","caption":"A police helicopter lifts a sling-load of seized cannabis plants during the eradication operation"},{"kind":"photo","url":"https://www.420magazine.com/community/threads/drug-raid-chopper-makes-a-school-stopover.88324/","media_url":"https://www.420magazine.com/gallery/data/759/EGN-raids_1.JPG","publisher":"Echo News (via 420 Magazine)","caption":"A police helicopter flying low over the bush during the cannabis eradication operation"}],"cfi_id":null,"created_by_model":"muse-code/muse-spark-1.3#xhigh","open_questions":["The original Echo News page could not be opened; its text and photos were read in a 420 Magazine mirror of the article.","The court outcomes for the seven arrested people are not in this report."],"sources":[{"title":"Drug Raid Chopper Makes A School Stopover","url":"https://www.420magazine.com/community/threads/drug-raid-chopper-makes-a-school-stopover.88324/","publisher":"Echo News (via 420 Magazine)","date":"2009-02-11","archived":null},{"title":"Nimbin Good Times, February 2009 (front page)","url":"https://nimbingoodtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2025/11/NGT-0209-01.pdf","publisher":"Nimbin Good Times","date":"2009-02-01","archived":null}]},{"id":"blair-athol-hydro-houses-raids-2008","code":"CET-SXK6M1","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/blair-athol-hydro-houses-raids-2008/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/SXK6M1/","date":"2008-05-16","added_at":"2026-11-03T22:56:53.733Z","added_at_source":"recorded","updated_at":null,"country":"au/nsw","country_name":"New South Wales, Australia","place":"Blair Athol, Sydney","coordinates":[-34.05,150.79],"precision":"locality","type":"raid","also":["arrest"],"title":"Six cannabis hydro-houses raided in Blair Athol, six arrested","summary":"Police raided six houses concealing hydroponic cannabis farms in Blair Athol in south-west Sydney in the week ending 16 May 2008, seizing more than a thousand plants police valued at around $10 million. Six people were arrested and a child was removed from one of the houses.","status":"verified","figures":{"arrested":6,"value":{"amount":10000000,"currency":"AUD"}},"tags":["blair-athol","hydroponic","sydney"],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":null,"created_by_model":"muse-code/muse-spark-1.3#xhigh","open_questions":["The reports give the week's haul only as \"more than a thousand\" plants plus \"hundreds\" seized on Friday, so no exact plant count was published.","No names or charges for the six people arrested were published in the opened accounts.","No photograph of the Blair Athol raids with a recoverable direct image address was found in the opened pages."],"sources":[{"title":"Gang behind drug house cluster","url":"https://stickypointmagazine.com/cannabis_news_2008_05_may.php","publisher":"News.com.au (AAP), via StickyPoint Magazine","date":"2008-05-15","archived":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260711202345/https://stickypointmagazine.com/cannabis_news_2008_05_may.php"},{"title":"Two More Cannabis Drug Houses Raided","url":"https://www.420magazine.com/community/threads/two-more-cannabis-drug-houses-raided.76107/","publisher":"NINEMSN (AAP), via 420 Magazine","date":"2008-05-17","archived":null}]},{"id":"greenfield-park-hydroponic-raids-2006","code":"CET-C8RT8Z","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/greenfield-park-hydroponic-raids-2006/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/C8RT8Z/","date":"2006-08-07","added_at":"2026-11-03T21:50:53.804Z","added_at_source":"recorded","updated_at":null,"country":"au/nsw","country_name":"New South Wales, Australia","place":"Smithfield Road, Greenfield Park, Sydney","coordinates":[-33.8718,150.8923],"precision":"locality","type":"raid","also":[],"title":"Two hydroponic cannabis houses raided in Greenfield Park","summary":"Police raided two empty houses on Smithfield Road in Greenfield Park on 7 August 2006, seizing 360 cannabis plants and processed cannabis worth about one million Australian dollars. No one was home, no charges were laid, and investigations continued.","status":"verified","figures":{"plants_destroyed":360,"value":{"amount":1000000,"currency":"AUD"}},"tags":["greenfield-park","hydroponic","wetherill-park"],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":null,"created_by_model":"muse-code/muse-spark-1.3#xhigh","open_questions":["Only one opened source, a Wikinews report citing an NSW Police media release, could be found; the release itself was not opened.","The quantity of the processed cannabis seized alongside the 360 plants was not specified.","No one was home during the raids, no charges were laid, and no outcome was reported.","The Wikinews page carries only a generic file photo, not a picture of this raid."],"sources":[{"title":"Police seize $1 million worth of cannabis in southwestern Sydney","url":"https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Police_seize_%241_million_worth_of_cannabis_in_southwestern_Sydney","publisher":"Wikinews","date":"2006-08-08","archived":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260509010200/https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Police_seize_$1_million_worth_of_cannabis_in_southwestern_Sydney"}]},{"id":"narrabri-jacks-creek-record-seizure-2004","code":"CET-2EWTET","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/narrabri-jacks-creek-record-seizure-2004/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/2EWTET/","date":"2004-04-08","added_at":"2026-11-03T12:03:18.000Z","added_at_source":"git","updated_at":"2026-11-04T00:13:26.000Z","country":"au/nsw","country_name":"New South Wales, Australia","place":"Jacks Creek via Narrabri, New South Wales","coordinates":[-30.41,149.77],"precision":"locality","type":"raid","also":["seizure","arrest"],"title":"Record 2.5-tonne cannabis haul seized at Jacks Creek; 16 arrested","summary":"Drug squad detectives raided the rural property 'Valala' at Jacks Creek near Narrabri at dawn on 8 April 2004, uncovering 2.5 tonnes of dried cannabis worth an estimated A$35 million, then the state's biggest haul. Sixteen people were arrested at the farmhouse, nearby and at three camouflaged crop and drying sites on the property.","status":"verified","figures":{"arrested":16,"kg_seized":2500,"value":{"amount":35000000,"currency":"AUD"}},"tags":["drug-squad","record-seizure"],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":null,"created_by_model":"muse-code/muse-spark-1.3#xhigh","open_questions":["The final sentences of the other people arrested at the property are still not recorded here."],"sources":[{"title":"Police seize record $35m marijuana haul","url":"https://www.bluelight.org/community/threads/news-45-million-pot-bust-sydney.131969/","publisher":"The Sydney Morning Herald (via Bluelight forum mirror)","date":"2004-04-08","archived":null},{"title":"Giammaria v Regina; Karagiannis v Regina [2006] NSWCCA 63","url":"https://www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/549fcb3f3004262463bcb48c/export.pdf","publisher":"NSW Court of Criminal Appeal (via NSW Caselaw)","date":"2006-03-14","archived":null},{"title":"DELFINO, Raymond Joseph v R [2008] NSWCCA 18","url":"https://www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/549fdbc53004262463c08144/export.pdf","publisher":"NSW Court of Criminal Appeal (via NSW Caselaw)","date":"2008-02-25","archived":null}]},{"id":"dubbo-30000-plants-syndicate-raid-2004","code":"CET-W0M64J","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/dubbo-30000-plants-syndicate-raid-2004/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/W0M64J/","date":"2004-01-29","added_at":"2026-11-03T09:21:08.000Z","added_at_source":"git","updated_at":"2026-11-03T12:01:30.000Z","country":"au/nsw","country_name":"New South Wales, Australia","place":"Isolated woodland near Dubbo, New South Wales","coordinates":[-32.2569,148.6011],"precision":"locality","type":"eradication","also":["arrest"],"title":"More than 30,000 cannabis plants seized near Dubbo; 12 arrested","summary":"New South Wales police raided a camouflaged syndicate plantation in isolated woodland near Dubbo on 29 January 2004, seizing more than 30,000 cannabis plants police valued at about $50 million. Twelve people, including sentries and three alleged ringleaders, were arrested.","status":"verified","figures":{"arrested":12,"plants_destroyed":30000,"value":{"amount":50000000,"currency":"AUD"}},"tags":["dubbo","nsw-police","syndicate"],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":null,"created_by_model":"meta/muse-spark","open_questions":["Only one source for this event could be opened; no second newsroom account was found.","The article was published on 30 January 2004 and describes the raid as the previous day's work; no separate date for the first arrests is stated.","No court outcome for the twelve arrested people was reported in the opened source.","No photograph of the plantation or the raid with a recoverable direct image address was found in the opened source."],"sources":[{"title":"Police raid $50m marijuana crop","url":"https://www.bluelight.org/community/threads/news-12-arrested-over-20-million-marijuana-crop.119492/","publisher":"The Australian (via Bluelight)","date":"2004-01-30","archived":null}]},{"id":"nimbin-cafes-raid-three-arrested-2001","code":"CET-J2PS6J","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/nimbin-cafes-raid-three-arrested-2001/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/J2PS6J/","date":"2001-05-14","added_at":"2026-11-04T02:07:12.701Z","added_at_source":"recorded","updated_at":null,"country":"au/nsw","country_name":"New South Wales, Australia","place":"Nimbin, New South Wales","coordinates":[-28.594,153.223],"precision":"locality","type":"raid","also":["arrest"],"title":"Police raid three Nimbin cannabis cafes and arrest three","summary":"Thirty-five police officers with two sniffer dogs raided three cannabis cafes in Nimbin on 14 May 2001, arresting Andrew Kavasilas, Donald Fuggle and Allen Moore; more than 100 residents followed police to the station in protest, and 200 people rallied at Lismore courthouse on 4 June.","status":"verified","figures":{"arrested":3},"tags":["nimbin","cafes","sniffer-dogs"],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":null,"created_by_model":"muse-code/muse-spark-1.3#xhigh","open_questions":["Green Left Weekly reports 35 police officers while the MardiGrass history says 29; the report uses 35.","No quantities of cannabis seized in the raid were published.","No court outcomes for Kavasilas, Fuggle or Moore are recorded here."],"sources":[{"title":"Police harassment spurs drug reform campaign","url":"https://www.greenleft.org.au/2001/452/news/police-harassment-spurs-drug-reform-campaign","publisher":"Green Left Weekly","date":"2001-06-20","archived":null},{"title":"MardiGrass Dreaming 2007","url":"https://www.nimbinmardigrass.com/archives-history/2022/archives/mghist07/","publisher":"Nimbin MardiGrass","date":null,"archived":null}]}]}