Couple locked up over $820 million drug import plan

US authorities seized almost 1.3 tonnes of methamphetamine and 16kg of cocaine bound for Australia. (Erik Anderson/AAP PHOTOS)

An American couple were expecting to rake in their share of $820 million when they organised a tonne of methamphetamine and cocaine to be shipped into Australia. 

But Nasser Abo Abdo, 57, and Leonor Fajardoa, 52, will instead spend time behind bars after their plan was thwarted by US Homeland Security and Australian police.