Police bust drug ring
EXCLUSIVE Grant Taylor
December 8, 2014, 2:53 am
Police bust drug ring
Police have busted a multimillion-dollar drug distribution ring that was allegedly being run right under their noses from an apartment building next door to the homicide squad's headquarters in Perth.
Officers from the organised crime squad raided the Aberdeen Street property on Saturday and seized just under 3.5kg of methylamphetamine with an estimated street value of between $2 million and $3 million.
About $100,000 cash was also seized during the raid, which resulted in the arrest of two men and a woman - all Chinese nationals - who appeared in court yesterday charged with drug trafficking.
Few details about the operation have been released, but it is understood detectives became suspicious about the property while conducting inquiries into two other men who did not live at the address.
It is understood the drugs were high purity and inquiries are continuing into whether they had been imported into WA direct from China.
In court yesterday, the three accused claimed to speak very little English but did acknowledge that they understood the seriousness of the charges they were facing.
Prosecutors said there was "absolutely no chance" of bail, given the size of the drug haul and the lengthy jail terms they were facing if convicted.
A Mandarin-speaking interpreter would be required before an application could be heard at their next court appearance on December 22.
Hong Xiang Chen, 25, and Jian Cheng, 27, are understood to have lived in the rented apartment with the woman, 27-year old Luting Yu, but no other details were revealed in court.
Construction of the building where they were living was completed only this year and the homicide squad is not the only police unit nearby.
The arresting officers had to travel only about 400m from their base at Curtin House on Beaufort Street, which is also home to several other big police units.
In October, State and Federal police made the State's biggest "ice" bust, seizing 90kg of the drug from two homes in Perth.
It was claimed at the time that South East Asian drug rings were sending young foreigners to Perth to run their operations.
The West Australian
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