North West Metro Regional Crime Squad detectives have charged a man following an investigation into an alleged aggravated burglary in East Melbourne on 4 September.
On Monday detectives executed a search warrant at a storage facility on Pascoe Vale Road, Essendon. During the warrant investigators located and seized various ammunition and a significant quantity of drugs, including:
• Approximately 1.5kg of Methyl-amphetamine
• Approximately 100g of Cocaine
• Approximately nine litres of 1,4-Butanediol
Today detectives executed a further search warrant at an address on Chetwynd Street in North Melbourne, seizing a further quantity of drugs of dependence.
At that location detectives arrested a 50-year-old man in relation to the drugs seized on Monday.
He has been charged with:
• Traffick large commercial quantity Methylamphetamine
• Traffick commercial quantity 1,4-Butanediol
• Traffick cocaine
• Possess ammunition
He will appear before Melbourne Magistrates' Court today.
Earlier this month and last month a number of other people were charged in relation to the aggravated burglary and a spate of other alleged incidents since July in suburbs including: Armadale, South Yarra, Maribyrnong, South Morang, Campbellfield, Lynbrook, East Melbourne, and Sunbury.
Senior Constable Darcie Sword
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