Two men arrested following Operation Wing, a six-month operation investigating the selling, supplying and producing of Class A-controlled LSD and Class B-controlled MDMA (ecstasy) faced more charges when they appeared in the Invercargill District Court yesterday.
The men, who were granted name suppression, faced two charges each of importing the drug ecstasy and one was also charged with possession of cannabis. They were remanded in custody to October 20.
Detective Sergeant Grahme Bartlett, of Queenstown, said a large number of charges had been laid in relation to the seven people arrested on September 30.
An Australian man, originally from the United Kingdom, appeared before Judge Graeme Noble in the Invercargill District Court on October 1 and was remanded in custody.
A third Queenstown man, who was arrested in Christchurch, was remanded in custody. More charges would be laid against him in Christchurch tomorrow.
An Oamaru man charged with producing the drug ecstasy was remanded on bail to reappear in the Oamaru District Court on October 14. Aaron Joshua Wylie (34), freezing worker, appeared before Judge Mary O'Dwyer on Wednesday after the charge was transferred from Queenstown. The offending was alleged to have occurred in Queenstown on or about September 22. The charge was laid indictably.
Two men appeared in the Dunedin District Court on October 1 and were remanded in custody by consent for two weeks.
