Sydney cocaine syndicate allegedly used empty Bankstown home as storage facility
From the outside it looked like a nondescript western Sydney house, but police claim it was being used as a storage facility for a gang.
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From the outside it looked like a nondescript house, but it was allegedly being used as a drug and gun armoury by a western Sydney gang.
Police claimed a raid on the single storey home on Prairie Vale Rd Bankstown discovered the bare minimum of furniture, empty bedrooms and no people.
Inside was allegedly a collection of illegal firearms, almost 10kg of cocaine and just under 5kg of MDMA.
Police alleged in court the house was used as a storage facility by a gang that sold cocaine blocks featuring the likeness of infamous Columbian cocaine lord Pablo Escobar and the words “El Patron” which translates to “the boss” or “the lord” in Spanish.
Details of the house were revealed during the court case of one of the accused Western Sydney gang members, Mohammed Libdy, who was found not guilty of 15 charges relating to the alleged drug operations.
“This is a house that had been rented … by a person who when police went to speak to him, didn’t know anything about the fact that he was a tenant,” the Crown Prosecutor told the court.
In a shed at the rear of the house, police found a Honda Jazz, which had a secret compartment that was operated by “an elaborate set of switches”, the prosecutor told the court.
Libdy was arrested two years ago after police seized more than $600,000 in cash, 11 guns, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and $14 million worth of drugs in raids across the city’s southwest.
But when Libdy’s trial ended in the Downing Centre District Court last month, he was found not guilty of 15 charges, including large commercial cocaine supply, and gun possession.
“Mr Libdy strenuously denied these allegations and was vindicated,” his lawyer Mahmoud Abbas said.
Libdy pleaded guilty to charges relating to about 40gm of cocaine and $40,000 cash.
He is yet to be sentenced.
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