Canadians arrested in Australia drug bust

Australian police say they’ve busted a Canadian-led syndicate that imported nearly two tonnes of drug-making materials worth almost $300 million to the country. Eight Canadians and two Australians are in custody. Police said the weekend arrests followed the seizure last month in Melbourne of 650 kilograms of pseudoephedrine that had been hidden in vanilla powder jars. They said the chemical came from India and is used to produce crystal meth. Three of the Canadians — Catherine McNaughton, 30, Edmond Proko, 46, and James Kelsey, 27 — appeared in a Melbourne court Monday charged with drug trafficking.