A regulation traffic stop quickly turned into something far less humdrum on Tuesday, when two men were found with one kilogram of methylamphetamine at Albion Park.
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Around 1.30pm on Tuesday, police stopped and searched a car travelling south on the Princes Highway at Albion Park.
Officers found one kilogram of "ice" in the car’s boot, hidden inside a sports bag.
Police say the drugs were valued at $1 million.
Two men from Epping, aged 33 and 37, were arrested and taken to Wollongong police station.
Following the arrest, Organised Crime Squad officers from Strike Force Doven raided four properties at Hurstville, Epping and West Ryde.
Two cars were also searched.
Detectives seized four pistols, $40,000 in cash, money counters, chemistry equipment, mobile phones, laptops, documents, and numerous other items believed to have been used in the supply of illicit drugs.
The Epping men, neighbours Kui Ling Oui and Leo Yan Lai Cheung, were charged with large commercial drug supply and appeared in Port Kembla Local Court on Wednesday, where they did not apply for bail and it was formally refused.
They will appear before Port Kembla court again on December 17.
Strike Force Doven was set up by the Organised Crime Squad earlier this year to investigate drug supply activities in Sydney’s south.
“The offence of supplying a large commercial quantity of drugs in NSW carries a penalty up to life imprisonment,” said Organised Crime Squad commander, Detective Superintendent Scott Cook.
“Every time we seize illicit drugs we’re not only hitting the pockets of organised criminals, we’re preventing the poison they peddle from reaching the wider community.”
