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Operation Avon Takes Down Christchurch Comancheros | Auckland News
Operation Avon smashed Christchurch’s Comancheros chapter in a seven-month sting that led to 29 convictions, seizing five kilograms of Class A drugs, 11 guns, $250K in cash, and freezing $1.9M in assets—including a house and cars. A parallel raid, Operation Leith, nabbed eight more in the South Island. The club, deeply entrenched in drug trafficking and money laundering across New Zealand, moved meth and cocaine worth over $1 million wholesale—potentially $15 million street value—and operated a weekly drug and cash pipeline between the islands. Police say wiping out the entire Christchurch…
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