NSW Police arrest two men over alleged MDMA supply as part of extensive drug supply investigation

Police are refusing to rule anything out as they hunt for the supplier that could be behind the drugs Alex Ross-King took before her death.

Two men have been charged on the Central Coast over an ongoing investigation into alleged drug supply. Picture: NSW Police

NSW Police could be narrowing in on the MDMA that led to the death of beloved Central Coast teen Alex Ross-King after charging two men as part of an ongoing drug supply investigation.

Officers descended on a home in Mount Elliot on the Central Coast just before 12pm yesterday, arresting a 20-year-old man and a 23-year-old man.

Inside the property’s granny flat, detectives found and seized 26 capsules believed to be MDMA, 14g of a substance believed to be methylamphetamine, $1275 in cash, and mobile phones.

Two men were charged over an ongoing drug supply investigation in NSW.

The two young men were taken to Gosford Police Station where they were both charged with drug offences and granted conditional bail.

The 20-year-old man will front Gosford Local Court on February 5, charged with supply prohibited drug.

The 23-year-old man will face court on the same day, charged with possess prohibited drug, two counts of supply prohibited drug and two counts of supply prohibited drug.

One of the men is searched by NSW Police.

Some of the MDMA capsules seized by police on the Central Coast yesterday.

NSW Police was unable to say if the drugs seized at the Central Coast home yesterday were related to the death of 19-year-old Alex Ross-King, who died at FOMO music festival in western Sydney at the weekend.

A NSW Police spokeswoman told news.com.au officers were continuing to investigate the death of Ms Ross-King on behalf of the coroner.

The spokeswoman said information provided during NSW Police’s ongoing drug supply investigation, including from yesterday’s arrests, had led to new lines of inquiry.

It’s understood police are working around the clock to find the person who supplied the potentially tainted MDMA to Ms Ross-King, before she died in Westmead Hospital on Saturday night.

“We can’t rule anything out,” the police spokeswoman said.

Ms Ross-King’s family released a statement earlier this week, where they revealed they would be asking for an audience with NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and described pill testing as an “opportunity for intervention”.

“We are deeply grieving the sudden loss of our beautiful girl Alex,” the family said.

“We encourage government to courageously take all active measures possible to reduce the risk, in particular, festival goers, through intensifying current initiatives as well as implementing other harm reduction strategies.

“Pill testing is only one measure. There is no safe level of drug consumption BUT, it is an opportunity for intervention.”

The family said it would be requesting an audience with the NSW premier to “confer and exchange views”.

Alex Ross-King died after being rushed to Westmead Hospital on Saturday night.

Ms Berejiklian has held firm on her opposition to pill testing saying she is yet to be presented with evidence it will work. Five people have died from drugs at NSW festivals in the past four months.

Diana Nguyen and Joseph Pham died on September 15 after the Defqon.1 festival in Sydney.

Callum Brosnan, who attended the city’s Knockout Games of Destiny dance party, died on December 9. Joshua Tam was killed at the Lost Paradise festival near Gosford on December 29.

On Saturday, Central Coast teenager Ms Ross-King died in hospital after taking drugs at the FOMO festival in western Sydney.

Appearing on the Today show on Monday, Ms Berejiklian said she was worried pill testing would give young people “a false sense of security”.

The NSW Premier said young people should instead be better educated and told it’s OK to seek medical attention if something was wrong.

Before Ms Ross-King died in Westmead Hospital from a suspected MDMA overdose, the teenager had sought medical attention at FOMO festival.

The spate of drug deaths also led to the NSW coroner announcing an inquest into the five tragedies earlier this week.