‘Blow ’em up bro’: Cops confronted explosive scene in high seas raid of drug boat

Police raiding a drug boat in high seas off Newcastle found a growing fire on board that threatened to ignite a cache of fireworks and fuel cans packed alongside the largest ever cocaine haul seized in Australia.

Giles-Adams, 28, and Preca, 34, were transporting at least 1.5 tonnes of pure cocaine distributed through 77 hessian packages. They picked up the cargo from a mothership, a Chinese vessel, 190 nautical miles off the coast. After discovering the fire, police hastily removed handcuffs from the men they had arrested and evacuated them to the NSW Police vessel Nemesis.Officers then extinguished the fire and discovered a large number of incendiary items in the hull storage area. There were two boxes of fireworks, branded “BLOW EM UP BRO”, and 16 full jerry cans intermingled with the cocaine packages.

On the morning of the raid, the seas were described by police as “very rough” with swells of 3.5 metres. During the boarding of the boat, an officer fell overboard and had to be rescued. Giles-Adams’ barrister Peter Lange urged Judge Penelope Hock to consider that his client had good prospects of rehabilitation, was unlikely to reoffend, was relatively young, was of prior good character and had expressed remorse about his offending.

fergushunter “observed it meeting with the Chinese mothership that had entered Australian waters.” What happened to the Chinese mothership and is Chinese ships smuggling drugs to Australia a common thing? Feel there is more to this story.

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