THE CROSS-BORDER DRUG BUST
* Police swooped on a drug-laden plane in Deniliquin, NSW, close to the Victorian border on Wednesday afternoon
* Part of an eight-month investigation targeting bikie-linked criminals
* Since January, police have seized 38 guns, 100 ecstasy pills and small amount of ice
* Investigations ongoing
NSW
* 67-year-old Queensland pilot of the light plane arrested in Deniliquin
* 45kg of cannabis and 4kg of controlled precursor to the drug ice seized
* Three search warrants executed simultaneously in Hay, 120km north of Deniliquin
* Four men - aged 38, 29, 43 and 46 - arrested in Hay and charged with ongoing gun supply
SA
* 10 Adelaide properties searched
* Six men aged between 26 and 52, who allegedly organised supply and transport of drugs by light plane, arrested
* Three more men - aged 26, 29, and 59 - and a 26-year-old woman arrested and charged with drug trafficking offences
* 18kg of cannabis seized, with a potential street value of $180,000
* 700 ecstasy pills seized, with a potential street value of $17,500
* Two firearms found
* Counterfeit currency seized
QLD
* Several properties on the Gold Coast and in Brisbane searched
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