In April 2003, 125 kilograms of heroin with an estimated street value of $160 million landed off the coast of Victoria near the town of Lorne.

Two men in a rubber dinghy had brought it over from an oceangoing vessel called the Pong Su. In the process of meeting their threeman shore party, the dinghy capsized and one of the men drowned.
The Australian Federal Police had known about the drug running operation for some weeks and had undercover surveillance in place. But when the arrests occurred they could only find three persons of interest – one was still missing.

As a special operations group dramatically boarded the fleeing ship, the Victoria Police found their missing man and because he held a GPS (Global Positioning System) in his pocket they were able to virtually retrace every step made by the smugglers.

Like Hansel and Gretel, the forensic team came across breadcrumbs of evidence that would seal the four men's fate and put them behind bars for 16 years.

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