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Savannah Meacham

Police put brakes on 'drug superhighway' in $44m bust

Two men in Queensland's far north have allegedly been caught with 110kg of cocaine. (Supplied/AAP PHOTOS)

Police say they will not let organised crime turn the Pacific into an "illicit drug superhighway" after two men were allegedly caught with 110kg of cocaine in Queensland's remote north.  

The men - both aged 39 - have been accused of travelling to the Cape York Peninsula to collect more than $40 million worth of the drug from a small boat in the Torres Strait on Tuesday afternoon.

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