Star Wars, Lord of the Rings and police station Lego are among 74 toy sets that have been seized by Victoria police from an alleged drug trafficker in Melbourne.
The seizure on Thursday also included more than $2m worth of chemicals that can be turned into illicit drugs. Victoria police said the Lego collection was suspected of being the proceeds of crime.
Vision of a police property search in South Melbourne shows officers pushing trolleys carrying the large Lego collection and the chemicals before packing them into a car.
A 45-year-old man was arrested after searches in South Melbourne, Brunswick, Essendon North and Morwell on Thursday.
Officers said they found almost 70kg of chemicals that could be used to make $2m worth of methyl amphetamine and about $600,000 worth of a drug that mirrors GHB called 1,4-Butanediol.
They also found 74 boxes of Lego and five luxury watches, plus a handgun, an extendable baton and ammunition.
The Lego seized included the Star Wars Millennium Falcon model, which retails for $1,299, and the now-retired police station model.
It’s not the first time Victoria police have seized valuable Lego collections, with 1,130 boxes worth more than $200,000 confiscated during an alleged Melbourne meth lab raid in November.
On Thursday, the Morwell man was charged with 10 offences including trafficking a large commercial quantity of a drug of dependence and committing an indictable offence while on bail.
Act Sgt Brad Hobbs said offenders often imported drugs as an industrial product and the substance that mirrored GHB could cause enormous community harm.
“The drug can be unpredictable and the difference between survival and a fatal overdose can be very small,” he said.
“There is absolutely no safe amount to ingest. That’s why we’re committed to removing it from unintended hands.”
