{"id":4901,"date":"2025-07-19T04:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T04:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/4901\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T04:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T04:07:08","slug":"perth-couple-60-and-52-jailed-over-car-tyre-drug-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/4901\/","title":{"rendered":"Perth couple, 60 and 52, jailed over car tyre drug plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A married\ufeff couple will spend up to nine years in prison each over a drugs plot which saw them try and import 56kg of cocaine worth $18m from Switzerland hidden in car tyres.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bThe man, aged 60, and his wife, 52, from Nollamara in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/western-australia\/2\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Perth \">Perth<\/a> were found guilty last November and received their sentences yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>They were convicted of the attempted possession of a commercial quantity of unlawfully imported cocaine.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/11138db4-5377-4cfe-962b-3e3a23c40224.jpeg\"   alt=\"A married&#xFEFF; couple will spend up to nine years in prison over a drugs plot which saw them try and import 56kg of cocaine from Switzerland hidden in car tyres.&#x200B;The man, aged 60, and his wife, 52, from Nollamara Perth were convicted last November.\"\/>ABF officers found packages of white powder stuffed behind the rims of the performance wheels at the Perth cargo facility. (Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>ABF officers found packages of white powder stuffed behind the rims of the performance wheels at the Perth cargo facility.<\/p>\n<p>The consignment was transferred to the AFP and forensic specialists found 56 packages of white powder, which contained 37.67kg of pure cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>The drugs were replaced before the tyres were delivered to a Nollamara home on 5 July, 2022.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/27948a66-b4b5-4079-90ee-f370e1ce96be.jpeg\"   alt=\"A married&#xFEFF; couple will spend up to nine years in prison over a drugs plot which saw them try and import 56kg of cocaine from Switzerland hidden in car tyres.&#x200B;The man, aged 60, and his wife, 52, from Nollamara Perth were convicted last November.\"\/>AFP acting Superintendent Chris Colley said drug traffickers were &#8220;motivated by greed and did not care about the harm they caused.&#8221; (Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>The next day the couple used tools and knives to cut apart the car tyres to get the black plastic-wrapped packages of drugs inside.<\/p>\n<p>The father and son flew in from Sydney that week, collected the packages and headed to a hotel.<\/p>\n<p>They opened at least one of the plastic-wrapped blocks before dumping them all in a skip bin outside a shopping centre.<\/p>\n<p>The AFP arrested the pair, before searching the home.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>AFP acting Superintendent Chris Colley said drug traffickers were &#8220;motivated by greed and did not care about the harm they caused.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/e5d3429a-de5c-4036-92b6-3b6066b868c9.jpeg\"   alt=\"A married&#xFEFF; couple will spend up to nine years in prison over a drugs plot which saw them try and import 56kg of cocaine from Switzerland hidden in car tyres.&#x200B;The man, aged 60, and his wife, 52, from Nollamara Perth were convicted last November.\"\/>\u200bThe man, aged 60, and his wife, 52, from Nollamara Perth were convicted last November. (Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This amount of cocaine had the potential to be sold as about 280,000 individual street deals of 0.2 grams and put about $18.2 million in the pockets of criminals,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>ABF acting Superintendent Carmen Lee said &#8220;the skills and vigilance of ABF officers at the border ensured this dangerous cargo was stopped before it could reach Australian streets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This outcome should act as a warning to anyone considering drug trafficking. Do not be blinded by greed, you will be found out and face serious jail time,&#8221; a\/Supt Lee said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A married\ufeff couple will spend up to nine years in prison each over a drugs plot which saw&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-4901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}