CANBERRA, ACT, Jan. 10 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release:
This is a joint release between Australian Federal Police, Western Australia Police, Australian Border Force, Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission and AUSTRAC
A Perth man charged over his alleged role in a plot to import and distribute more than 525kg of cocaine is expected to appear in Perth Magistrates Court today (Saturday, 10 January, 2026).
The Western Australia Joint Organised Crime Taskforce (WA JOCTF) arrested the man, 44, in the Perth suburb of Mariginiup yesterday. The man, from Myaree, is the sixth person charged since the cocaine was found in the ocean off the WA coast in November, 2025.
A WA JOCTF investigation was already underwa...