An elderly Melbourne couple got a shock after signing for a misdirected mail parcel which turned out to contain an estimated $10 million worth of the drug ice.
The package was delivered to their Hoppers Crossing home on Wednesday afternoon, but the couple called police when they found it contained bags of white powder.
Police say it allegedly contained about 20kg of the drug ice, worth an estimated $10 million.
The investigation led police to raid an address in Bundoora later the same day, when they found another 20kg of ice, also with an estimated value of $10 million.
A 21-year-old Bundoora man was arrested returning to the property and charged with importing a marketable quantity of a border controlled drug.
He has been remanded in custody to appear at Melbourne Magistrates Court on Thursday.
Acting Senior Sergeant Matthew Kershaw said it was a "quite significant" bust.
"It's quite a large find to take off the streets," he said.
"That's 800,000 hits off the street that we've intercepted."
The acting senior sergeant said the elderly couple weren't sure what was in their mystery package and he praised them for calling police.
"We're just assuring them that they've done absolutely nothing wrong," he said.
In a separate case, police seized "significant amounts" of cannabis being grown in houses at Wyndham on Thursday, with arrests and drug seizures expected.
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