{"id":605134,"date":"2026-04-14T00:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/605134\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T00:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:14:14","slug":"cleaner-stumbles-across-major-drug-explosives-and-cash-haul-at-melbourne-rental-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/605134\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleaner stumbles across major drug, explosives and cash haul at Melbourne rental property"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police say a cleaner stumbled across drugs, firearms, explosives and more than a million dollars in cash in a Melbourne short-term rental in January.<\/p>\n

Victoria Police said authorities were called on January 24 after the stash was discovered at the property at Keilor East.<\/p>\n

Incendiary devices were found at the property, prompting the Bomb Response Unit and the Australian Defence Force to conduct controlled detonations.<\/p>\n

Victoria Police said the property had been rented for weeks in January.<\/p>\n

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Police were called to the property on January 24 after a cleaner found drugs, explosives and cash. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

Police interviewed a man in relation to the booking and he’s been released pending further enquiries.<\/p>\n

Investigators have released images of a man they want to speak to, who was captured on CCTV filling up a white Toyota Camry.<\/p>\n

The Camry travelled to the Keilor East property repeatedly during the period the property was rented.<\/p>\n

The images were taken at a service station on the Western Ring Road at Ardeer on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n

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Police want to speak to a man captured on CCTV fuelling a white Toyota Camry linked to the property. (Supplied: Victoria Police)<\/p>\n

The vehicle was hired from a car rental company, but police said the man in the image was not the person who hired it.<\/p>\n

Police say the man who hired the vehicle is not cooperating with police.<\/p>\n

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Police say the white Camry made several visits to the Keilor East property. (Supplied: Victoria Police)<\/p>\n

Detective Inspector Jamie Walker, from the Major Drug Squad, urged anyone who recognises the man seen with the white Camry or has information to contact police.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“This was not a run of the mill seizure of drugs and cash. There were incendiary devices and a large quantity of firearms. This is organised crime,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We will track down those responsible and hold them to account. It would be in your best interests to tell us what you know now.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say a cleaner stumbled across drugs, firearms, explosives and more than a million dollars in cash in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,242626,1730,44,1158,15466],"class_list":{"0":"post-605134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bomb-squad","11":"tag-drugs","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-police","14":"tag-weapons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605134","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=605134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}