Cocaine bricks: Major breakthrough as Daniel Wayne John Roberts is arrested ... trends now
Police claim to have arrested the ringleader behind the botched importation of 900kg of cocaine into Australia that instead washed up as mysterious 'bricks' along the eastern coastline.
Australian Federal Police officers have accused Daniel Wayne John Roberts of being the Australian leader of an international drug smuggling operation.
It's believed the syndicate failed to pick up the illegal shipment, leaving it be picked up and deposited at spots along the NSW coastline by the tide.
Police swooped on Roberts who was at an address in Brisbane's northern suburbs on Wednesday afternoon.
Police believe they have arrested the Australian ringleader behind a botched drug importation that left 'bricks' of cocaine washing up on the eastern coastline
He was scheduled to appear at in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Thursday.
The first of the tightly wrapped and taped packages of cocaine was found on
