Eight Austra­lian men were charge­d with offenc­es carryi­ng a maximu­m senten­ce of life impris­onment­SYDNEY: Australian police said on Friday they had seized a record 1.2 tonnes of methamphetamine with a street value of more than A$1 billion ($771 million) after a raid in a remote area of the west Australian coast. Eight Australian men were charged with offences carrying a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, police in Western Australia state said in a statement. “We are striking at the top end of drug trafficking before it gets further down the distribution chain,” Western Australia Police Commissioner Chris Dawson said. Police arrested the van’s three occupants, all from the eastern Australian state of New South Wales. Drug pusher convictedThree others were arrested on the Valkoista and the remaining two were charged in Perth.

Source: The Express Tribune December 22, 2017 07:41 UTC