The authorities’ fears come as two alleged Mexican cartel members were charged after police seized $30 million worth of crystal meth — or “ice” — in a raid in Sydney in July.
Members of a deadly Mexican drug cartel — responsible for kidnappings, beheadings and thousands of murders — have set up shop in Australia.
Drug criminals from Mexico’s most powerful drug cartel, the Sinaloa Federation, are basing themselves in eastern states to distribute hundreds of kilograms of drugs, including ice, heroin and cocaine.
Federal crime-fighting authorities are concerned that Sinaloa and other Mexican cartel members are increasingly coming here to profit from our lucrative drug market.
Australian Crime Commission chief Chris Dawson said the nation’s peak policing groups were working with US Drug Enforcement Administration officers to combat the threat.
“You only need to look to the violence on the streets in Mexico and the thousands of people who have died at the hands of Mexican drug cartels, to realise how dangerous these groups are,” Mr Dawson said.
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