Boroondara police crack down on dangerous illicit drugs

Drugs, cash and a gun have been seized by police following arrests across Boroondara’s affluent leafy inner-suburbs.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of illicit drugs were pulled off Boroondara’s streets within two days, highlighting their prevalence within the community, police say.

Cocaine, methylamphetamine and GHB were discovered during police raids at properties across the municipality earlier this month.

Cops pulled over a car about 4.30am on June 7 after they noticed it being driven erratically along Canterbury Rd in Canterbury.

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Inside they allegedly found more than 80g of ice, prescription drugs and more than 9 litres of GHB, detective Senior Sergeant Daryl Cullen said.

Warrants were then executed at a Hawthorn storage facility linked to the two men in the car allegedly revealed a further 15 litres of GHB and $40,000 cash, he said.

A raid a day earlier at a Warrigal Rd home in Surrey Hills by Whitehorse police also allegedly uncovered more than a kilogram of cocaine — which usually sells for $311 a gram on the street — $30,000 cash and a 9mm pistol, he said.

And while it was difficult to say if the two drug trafficking operations were linked, he said it highlighted the substances were in demand.

He said people under the influence of drugs posed a danger to themselves, as well as the wider community due to their impaired judgment and erratic

“These are all life-threatening drugs that are being used,” Sen-Sgt Cullen said.

“To the operational police person, the ice-affected person is the most difficult to deal with.”

He praised the hard work of police in charging those allegedly involved in the drug rings, including a 29-year-old St Kilda man, a 34-year-old Hawthorn man and a 45-year-old Surrey Hills man.