By JESSE GRAHAM
FIVE people will front court after a Healesville business and three residential properties were raided by police last week in an operation to crack down on drug offences.
Police officers from Croydon Divisional Tasking Unit (DTU) executed search warrants at four locations, including two in Healesville, one in Badger Creek and one in Kilsyth.
The DTU members allegedly located methamphetamine (ice), cannabis and cash on the properties.
Two Healesville men, aged 36 and 37, and a 24-year-old Kilsyth man have been charged with trafficking ice, possessing cannabis and other drug offences.
A 32-year-old Badger Creek man and a 46-year-old Kilsyth woman have been charged with drug offences, and all five will be appearing at Ringwood Magistrates’ Court at a later date.
The warrants were executed at a business on Crisp Street, Healesville, and residential properties at Old Fernshaw Road, Healesville, Hannover Road, Badger Creek and Carina Court in Kilsyth.
Residents told the Mail that the business had been closed around 4pm on the day, but the business was running as per usual the following day.
Croydon DTU Detective Senior Sergeant Jim Sutherland said that police would target drug activity in the eastern suburbs, to try and damage drug supply networks.
“Operations like this disrupt the trafficking of illicit substances and has the potential to make a real difference in drug supply throughout the eastern suburbs,” he said.
“We will continue these sorts of operations in order to reduce the threat of such volatile substances in the community.”
