Overview
- NSW police found about 5,000 plants on a 306-hectare Niemur property after aerial surveillance located crops hidden in dense forest.
- Two men and two women were arrested in the NSW operation, refused bail, and charged with cultivating and possessing a large commercial quantity.
- Victoria Police uncovered roughly 4,700 plants in 10 greenhouses at Milnes Bridge, charging four foreign nationals with large commercial cultivation and trafficking.
- The four men faced Bendigo Magistrates' Court and were remanded to May 13, while a fifth suspect fled the scene and remains at large.
- Forensic teams spent three days dismantling the Victorian site, seizing electronic devices, CCTV gear, and alleged power-bypass equipment, with plants in NSW burnt on site after cataloguing.