NSW police have seized more than $5 million worth of cannabis, MDMA and other drugs and charged nine people after a raid on properties linked to the Lone Wolf outlaw motorcycle gang (OMCG) in northern NSW.
A 30-year-old man was arrested on Thursday after police found more than 900 plants and 50kg of dried cannabis leaf on a property at Jiggi - 20km northwest of Lismore.
He was hit with two charges of cultivating large commercial quantities of a prohibited plant, deal with proceeds of crime, supplying commercial quantities of a prohibited drug and using electricity without authority.
He is due to appear at Lismore Local Court on Friday.
Among the other eight to be charged on Thursday, one 65-year-old man had two hydroponic set-ups with 57 cannabis plants and $13,000 cash on the property, while a further 18 plants and numerous ecstasy pills were seized from the East Lismore home of a 22-year-old man, while others had OMCG paraphernalia.
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Police also issued firearms prohibition orders and consorting warnings to nine members of the Lone Wolf OMCG, including one man whose firearms licence was suspended and had registered firearms seized.
