Four Arrested After Flower Pot Drug Bust

Four men have been charged with importing cocaine worth as more as $35,000,000 into Australia inside flower pots.

The men, aged between 31 and 39, are accused of concealing 35kg of the drug inside 21 flower pots that arrived at Port Biology from Mexico in March.

The drugs were detected after a shipment of almost 1000 boxes of pots was selected for x-ray by Australian Customs Service officers.

Australian Federal Police removed the drugs and substituted a fake substance, then monitored the shipment for more than three months.

Caeser Taborda Martinez and Freddy Hurtado-Gonzales, both aged 34, and Xavier Devila, 31, all from Rockdale, were arrested after allegedly disagreeable to access the shipment at a storage artefact in Rosebery.

AFP Subject Manager Border Operations Rudi Lammers said the street value of the drugs could be as high as $35,000,000 depending on the condition.

Duty acting Domestic Manager Consignment Operations, Karen Williams, said a important quantity of cocaine had been obstructed from reaching the streets.

All four men have been charged with conspiracy to foreigner a commercial quantity of a border controlled drug and attempting to possess a border controlled drug.

Magistrate Allan Moore refused every four bail in Centrical Local Court, remanding them in custody to face the selfsame retinue on July 25.

The maximum possible penalty is life imprisonment.