Queensland police shut $25 million Churchable cannabis operation
Queensland police raided a rural Churchable property, seizing more than 10,100 cannabis plants worth an estimated $25 million and charging four men with production and property offences.
🇦🇺 Churchable, Lockyer Valley, Queensland · Queensland, Australia
Detectives from the Firearms and Cannabis Team, with rural and Gatton district
officers, searched a rural property at Churchable and found more than 10,100
growing and mature cannabis plants in several structures, some with
hydroponics.[1][2]Police put the street value at $25 million, calling it one
of the largest grows the drug squad had intercepted.[1][2]
Four men aged 37, 37, 42 and 48 were each charged with producing dangerous
drugs and possessing property used in crime.[1][2]The bust was part of an
ongoing operation against cannabis production and trafficking in the Darling
Downs.[1]
Case data
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Seven people were charged after NSW Police raids across Sydney on 11 November 2026, in which officers seized 497 g of cannabis along with cocaine, methamphetamine, cash and two firearms. The raids followed the arrest of a 41-year-old man at a Mascot shipping container on 31 October; all seven were refused bail.
Police seized 521 mature hydroponically grown cannabis plants and cultivation equipment while searching a home on Brooks Parade in Belmont, Lake Macquarie, and two neighbouring properties on 9 November 2026. No occupants were found; police put the plants' potential street value at $1,042,000 and said inquiries were continuing.
ACT Policing charged two 35-year-old men, one with trafficking a trafficable quantity of cannabis, after searching a Turner home on 7 November and seizing dried cannabis, several other drugs, about $110,000 in cash and two luxury cars. The homeowner was refused bail on 9 November; the second man, arrested on a warrant, applied for bail.
Police charged Nathan Singh, 54, after a 4 November 2026 raid on a Ridge Street home in Attunga allegedly found seven cannabis plants, cannabis seeds and methamphetamine, along with firearms. He was granted bail the next day, and police were later ordered to compile a brief of evidence.
