Drugs allegedly bound for Schoolies celebrations are among a $170,000 haul seized by police in a two-month-period in Victoria.
Mornington Peninsula police arrested nine people as well as seizing the drugs between late September and the end of November.
Search warrants were executed at Capel Sound, Carrum Downs, Dromana, Frankston South, Mornington, Rosebud, and Rye.
Mornington Peninsula police arrested nine people as well as seizing the drugs between late September and the end of November. (The Age)
Police allege some of the confiscated drugs, including cocaine, ketamine, MDMA, GHB, meth, and cannabis, were meant to be sold at Schoolies celebrations on the peninsula.
A 24-year-old Dromana man was arrested on November 18 at a home on Beach Street, where police allegedly seized $70,000 worth of cocaine and dozens of MDMA pills.
Police will allege the man was seeking to supply drugs to celebrating school leavers.
He was charged with trafficking and ecstasy possession.
Two men, aged 25 and 55, were arrested at a Rye home on October 23, after police allegedly seized drugs including cocaine, GHB, meth, ketamine, cannabis, and ecstasy, along with four fake guns, a machete, and cash.
The 25-year-old was charged with weapon and trafficking offences and the older man was charged with cultivating a commercial cannabis crop. They remain before the courts.
A 45-year-old man was charged with trafficking meth in Carrum Downs and has a warrant out for his arrest after he failed to appear in court.
Two men, aged 23 and 26, were arrested in Frankston South and charged with trafficking cocaine and possessing a fake gun. They will next appear in court in the new year.
A 45-year-old man was charged after an alleged cannabis crop house was dismantled on York Street, Rosebud.
And a 56-year-old Mornington woman was charged and issued a caution for alleged cannabis possession.