News & Media

Two Sydney men have been charged in connection to the 2020 seizure of 156 kilograms of pseudoephedrine, as a result of Operation Ironside.

Australian Federal Police detectives working on Operation IRONSIDE EAST-GALVESTON have charged a 32-year-old Hurstville woman with money laundering and drug trafficking offences.

Five Australian Federal Police (AFP) members will today receive accolades in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. 

Editor’s Note: footage and photographs available via Hightail A man and a woman have been charged following an investigation spanning more than two years into employees of an airport ground services provider allegedly involved in drug trafficking at Sydney Airport.

AFP statement on the legislative powers used for Operation Ironside.

Five men have been arrested in Western Australia over the importation of 77 kilograms of heroin, which Australian Border Force allegedly found in a consignment of industrial kitchen equipment that arrived from Malaysia.

A 51-year-old man from the Hunter region is facing court today following the seizure of millions of dollars in cash suspected to be the proceeds of crime from a rural property near Cessnock, NSW.

Editor's note: Images and vision from this operation can be downloaded via Hightail. Twenty-nine people have been charged, 31 firearms taken from criminals, more than 76 kilograms of illicit drugs intercepted and $9.5 million of alleged criminal cash seized in Western Australia under the Australian Federal Police’s Operation IRONSIDE.

The Australian Federal Police’s Operation IRONSIDE EAST infiltrated encrypted communications of criminal groups targeting New South Wales, resulting in the arrest of 55 people and seizure of more than 1.5 tonnes of illicit drugs and more than $19 million in cash in the last week.

Editor’s note: Images and vision from this operation can be downloaded via Hightail.  95 alleged offenders have been arrested, over 600 kilograms of illicit drugs intercepted, 30 firearms seized, almost $2 million in cash restrained and a number of murder plots disrupted in South Australia under Australian Federal Police Operation Ironside.