{"id":495976,"date":"2026-02-22T03:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/495976\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T03:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:31:10","slug":"police-uncover-28-kilograms-of-cocaine-hidden-behind-tv-on-luxury-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/495976\/","title":{"rendered":"Police uncover 28 kilograms of cocaine hidden behind TV on luxury bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>M\ufeffore than 28 kilograms of cocaine has been seized from a luxury bus held on a ship in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/south-australia\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"South Australia\">South Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Australian Border Force officers searched a bus aboard a &#8220;roll on roll off&#8221; vessel anchored at Outer Harbor, in the Port of Adelaide, on February 16.<\/p>\n<p>Using videoscopes and detector dogs, a forensic search of the luxury bus uncovered several one-kilogram packages of a white powdered substance hidden behind a built-in TV.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/1cfa70f2-171c-4ae4-8850-ba448f81b318.png\"   alt=\"Cocainefound inside luxury bus Outer Harbour, SA, February 16 2026.\"\/>The drugs were concealed behind a built-in television. (Australian Federal Police)<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/6549c9d5-0e12-4d60-8065-b2deb4894f20.png\"   alt=\"Cocainefound inside luxury bus Outer Harbour, SA, February 16 2026.\"\/>Officers used videoscopes and drug detector dogs to locate the parcels. (Australian Federal Police)<\/p>\n<p>Police discovered a total of about 28 kilograms of the substance, which tested positive for cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>Australian Federal Police officers seized the illicit drugs and started further investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Had the drugs reached the Australian community, they would have had an estimated street value of about $9 million.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Criminals are driven by their own greed and profit and will attempt any method to import harmful illicit substance into our country,&#8221; AFP Detective Acting Superintendent Simon Lalic said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/d0a5baed-a808-42cb-a397-2a6f76f7a50b.png\"   alt=\"Cocainefound inside luxury bus Outer Harbour, SA, February 16 2026.\"\/>Police uncovered several one kilogram packages inside the bus.  (Australian Federal Police)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No matter how creative these criminals attempt to be, our message is clear \u2013 we are on to you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As many as 140,000 street-level deals could have occurred if authorities hadn&#8217;t intercepted the cocaine packages.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every detection of illicit drugs at the border reduces drug-related crimes in the Australian community and takes money out of the hands of international criminal syndicates,&#8221; Australian Border Force Superintendent Griswood said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I commend the highly skilled officers involved, who were vital to the detection of this large quantity of cocaine, thereby preventing significant community harm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>National Alcohol and Other Drug hotline 1800 250 015<\/p>\n<p>Support for families and friends of individuals experiencing alcohol or drug dependency:<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"M\ufeffore than 28 kilograms of cocaine has been seized from a luxury bus held on a ship in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-495976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495976","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=495976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}