Updated: 8:28 pm, Saturday, 18 February 2017
It comes after a major covert investigation known as Operation Atlanta, which targeted organised crime in the area.
Four men, allegedly major players in a distribution network that had links to the Hells Angels Outlaw Motorcycle Gang, are facing over 650 separate criminal charges as a result of the investigation.
A 41-year-old has been charged with 244 offences, a 55 year-old property developer has been charged with 296 offences and a 46-year-old has been charged with 26 offences.
All three have been charged with trafficking and supplying ice and cocaine.
The 41-year-old man was also charged with producing ice.
A 55-year-old Gold Coast man was charged by the CCC last month as part of the operation, with 91 offences including trafficking ice and cocaine and 74 counts of supplying drugs.
It will be alleged the men were involved in an ice production and distribution site was running out of Tedder Avenue, Main Beach
The wholesale value of the ice is approximately $250,000 but would have a significantly larger street value after being cut, repackaged and sold.
A range of weapons were also seized during the operation including a pump action shotgun, rifle, butterfly knife and a taser.
The men were bailed and are expected to appear in the Southport Magistrates Court on 3 March 2017.
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Major cocaine, ice racket smashed in Qld
Updated: 8:28 pm, Saturday, 18 February 2017
The Queensland Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) says it has
smashed a major cocaine and ice racket on the Gold Coast linked to Hells Angels.
It comes after a major covert investigation known as Operation Atlanta, which
targeted organised crime in the area.
Four men, allegedly major players in a distribution network that had links to
the Hells Angels Outlaw Motorcycle Gang, are facing over 650 separate criminal
charges as a result of the investigation.
A 41-year-old has been charged with 244 offences, a 55 year-old property
developer has been charged with 296 offences and a 46-year-old has been charged
with 26 offences.
All three have been charged with trafficking and supplying ice and cocaine.
The 41-year-old man was also charged with producing ice.
A 55-year-old Gold Coast man was charged by the CCC last month as part of the
operation, with 91 offences including trafficking ice and cocaine and 74 counts
of supplying drugs.
It will be alleged the men were involved in an ice production and distribution
site was running out of Tedder Avenue, Main Beach
The wholesale value of the ice is approximately $250,000 but would have a
significantly larger street value after being cut, repackaged and sold.
A range of weapons were also seized during the operation including a pump action
shotgun, rifle, butterfly knife and a taser.
The men were bailed and are expected to appear in the Southport Magistrates
Court on 3 March 2017.
Updated: 8:28 pm, Saturday, 18 February 2017