Hume detectives searched a property at Crooked Corner, north-west of Goulburn, on 18 March 2021 and seized 3,513 cannabis plants and more than 100 kilos of dried leaf worth up to $7.5 million. Three men were charged with large-commercial-quantity cultivation and supply and refused bail.
🇦🇺 Junction Point Road, Crooked Corner, near Goulburn · New South Wales, Australia
Hume Police District detectives searched a farm property on Junction Point
Road at Crooked Corner, about 80 kilometres north-west of Goulburn, on the
morning of Thursday 18 March 2021 after a tip about cannabis cultivation.[1][2]
Inside three large outdoor greenhouses they found 3,513 cannabis plants
being grown, and seized more than 100 kilos of dried cannabis leaf; police
put the combined estimated street value at up to $7.5 million.[1][2]
Three men aged 26, 27 and 35 were arrested at the property and taken to
Goulburn Police Station.[1][2]Each was charged with cultivating a
prohibited plant in a large commercial quantity and supplying a prohibited
drug in a large commercial quantity.[1][2]All three were refused bail to
appear before Goulburn Local Court the next day.[1][2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
3
Charged
3
of them seized
3,513
Cannabis
100 kg
Value (official estimate)
AUD 7,500,000
Agency
NSW Police Force
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Living plants (3,513 plants); Herbal cannabis (100 kg)
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