More arrests as cops launch airport drug raid

TERRITORY police have made another methamphetamine drug bust.

Early yesterday morning they swooped on a flight from Brisbane and arrested a 39year-old woman.

Police seized 224g of meth- amphetamine, understood to be worth about $200,000.

Detective Senior Sergeant Mark Stringer of the Organised Crime Division said the woman was arrested at Darwin Airport disembarking from a flight from Brisbane about 1.30 on Saturday morning.

Police will allege that dur- ing a search two packages containing methamphetamine were found taped to her body.

The woman was arrested and charged with possess and supply commercial quantity of a schedule 1 drug. Two mobile phones were also seized.

She was remanded in custody to appear in Darwin Local Court tomorrow. The latest drug raid comes hot on the heels of recent unrelated police successes. An international drug ring worth more than $1 million was thwarted after four men were recently arrested and charged in the Northern Territory. Officers from Taskforce Nemesis, a cross border multi-agency police operation, made arrests on Wednesday.

Stephen Donnelly, 36, and Sebastien Ducros, 24, were arrested along with UK national Tommy Ransley, 31, and Darwin man Marcus Hansch, 41, following a four-month operation targeting an alleged “sophisticated syndicate that transported MDMA and cocaine from the United Kingdom to Darwin”.

The four men faced Darwin Local Court Friday, charged with supplying a commercial quantity of a schedule one drug, while Ducros and Hansch were also charged with possession.