Guilty verdict after 5kg cocaine bust
A man has been found guilty of importing five kilograms of cocaine into Australia from Mexico.
Hector Munar Mayor was on trial in the West Australian Supreme Court this week, accused of importing and exporting commercial quantities of border controlled drugs and trafficking commercial quantities of controlled drugs.
Prosecutor Darren Renton told the court Mayor exchanged text messages with another person in January 2014 to arrange delivery of the drugs, but US officials intercepted the packages - one containing 2.4kg and the other 2.6kg.
An Australian Federal Police officer then posed as a delivery driver and brought the packages, which had a listening device concealed inside, to a home in East Perth.
Officers swooped on the property and arrested Mayor, who was assisted during the trial by a Spanish interpreter.
He will be sentenced on April 1.
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