500 kgs of drugs netted in raids

ALMOST 500kg of drugs have been seized and six men arrested in Sydney and Colombia as part of an international drug investigation.

The federal, Colombian and New South Wales police investigation netted 230kg of liquid methylamphetamine and 250kg cocaine in raids in Sydney and South America.

Police reported the cocaine was seized in Bogota, Colombia in late January, while the meth was discovered in a Sydney raid in December, concealed in 20,000 flavoured water bottles. Five Australians and one Colombian man were arrested.