About 9.15am on Wednesday 11 February 2026, Murray River Police District officers, with the Southern Region Enforcement Squad and State Crime Command, executed a search warrant at a rural property at Neimur, about 80 kilometres north-west of Deniliquin.[1] During the search, police allegedly located about 5,000 cannabis plants in dense bushland on the 306-hectare property, with a potential value of $10 million.[1] ABC reported the crop was detected by aerial surveillance before the raid.[2]
Murray River Detective Chief Inspector Mick Fuller said the plants were hard to spot because they sat within dense forest, and that people had made efforts to conceal the grow.[2] Police catalogued and photographed the plants, then uprooted and burnt them on site with help from the Rural Fire Service.[2][1] Two men in their 40s and two women in their 60s were arrested at the property and taken to Deniliquin Police Station.[2] All four were charged with cultivating a large commercial quantity of a prohibited plant and possessing a commercial quantity of a prohibited plant, refused bail, and were due to appear before Bail Division Court 5 on Thursday 12 February.[1]
Fuller said police used resources including State Crime Command, southern region support, a police dog squad and a drone, which he said helped ensure safe arrests and destruction of the cannabis.[1]
