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Blair Athol: the leafy suburb next door

17/05/2008 10:06:00 AM
Police last night made another raid as part of Operation Moonlight, which has so far uncovered seven drug houses in Blair Athol alone.

Last night, police raided a home in Auburn, bringing the total of drug houses uncovered by Operation Moonlight officers to nine since Friday last week, with most of them being in Blair Athol.

Police moved on the Auburn house, just after 7pm yesterday (Friday) and located a number of documents and other records allegedly pertaining to the co-ordination of drug cultivation in Blair Athol.

It follows three other raids at Blair Athol earlier that day which led to the arrests of four people and the removal of a young girl from one of the houses.

A 40-year-old man has been charged with cultivating a commercial quantity of a prohibited plant.

A 38-year-old man was charged with altering or adding to electricity installation for metering, cultivating a commercial quantity of a prohibited plant and enhanced indoor cultivation for a commercial purpose.

A 36-year-old woman was charged with enhanced indoor cultivation for a commercial purpose and cultivating commercial quantity of a prohibited plant.

All three were refused bail and will appear in Parramatta Local Court later today. A third man was released pending further inquiries.

DRUG RAIDS SO FAR

· 9 May: The Parkway, Bradbury: $750,000 worth of cannabis

· 12 May: The Kraal Drive, Blair Athol, $4.2 million worth of cannabis

· 14 May: Blair Athol Drive, Blair Athol, $1.5 million worth of cannabis

· 14 May: The Kraal Drive, Blair Athol, $1.2 million worth of cannabis

· 15 May: The Kraal Drive, Blair Athol, $1.6 million worth of cannabis

· 16 May: The Kraal Drive, Blair Athol, more than $500,000 worth of cannabis

· 16 May: Mary Brown Place, Blair Athol, more than $500,000 worth of cannabis

· 16 May: St Monica Way, Blair Athol, $1.5 million worth of cannabis.

Anyone with information about drug houses should contact Crime Stoppers on 1 800 333 000.

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Inside one of the Blair Athol houses. Picture: NSW Police
Inside one of the Blair Athol houses. Picture: NSW Police

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