This is one of Australia’s largest ever drug busts. And these kinds of busts are so important.

Drug crime is linked to funding more illegal activity, with proceeds often used in connection to everything from more drugs to guns.

In this case, a criminal syndicate was producing an industrial-scale cannabis crop in northern NSW.

Fourteen men have been charged after raids on the mid-north coast recently netted 13,353 cannabis plants at rural properties in Minimbah, Melinga and Moorwood.

Drug and Firearms Squad Commander Detective Superintendent John Watson said the seizure was one of the most significant in Australian history.

In total, more than $60 million worth of cannabis was seized. 19 people were arrested.

The strike force has now dismantled this sophisticated operation across six rural properties.

This is a huge criminal operation – only matched by the huge police operation that busted this criminal activity.

It’s just another sign of how incredibly resourced organised criminal syndicates, particularly international ones, are becoming.

Police report six Vietnamese men were arrested in this operation, including some who were in Australia on visas.

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