Guns, tasers and more than $4500 worth of cash and drugs, including MDMA and ice were found after police busted a drug ring during an operation targeting ice sale and trafficking in the Whitsundays.
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Police charged 26 people with 172 offences, including six people charged with trafficking dangerous drugs in a serious criminal network after the six-month investigation.
![Police have charged 26 people with 172 offences after undergoing an investigation targeting drug trafficking and the sale of Ice in the Whitsundays. Photo: Queensland Police Service Police have charged 26 people with 172 offences after undergoing an investigation targeting drug trafficking and the sale of Ice in the Whitsundays. Photo: Queensland Police Service](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/silverstone-ct-migration/bb6d3629-4df3-48ca-88ee-a3f529c75333/r0_0_480_320_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
Multiple house raids were conducted in Cannonvale, Proserpine and Mackay where four firearms, tasers and more than $4500 worth of cash as well as ice, MDMA, cannabis and substances believed to be performance- and image-enhancing drugs were found.
A 30-year-old Cannonvale man has been charged with trafficking and possessing dangerous drugs, possessing a pump action shot gun and a rifle and dangerous drugs procession of proceeds of drug trafficking.
He appeared on January 31 and was remanded in custody to reappear at the Bowen Magistrates Court on April 10.
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A 42-year-old Hideaway Bay man has been charged with trafficking dangerous drugs and 14 counts of supplying dangerous drugs.
He appeared at the Bowen Magistrates Court on February 5 and was remanded in custody to reappear on April 2.
A 25-year-old East Mackay man has been charged with trafficking dangerous drugs and unlawful supply of a pump action shot gun, a rifle, a sawn off shotgun and stealing.
He appeared at the Mackay Magistrates Court on February 5 and was remanded in custody to reappear on February 20.