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US national Justin Wetherbee pleads guilty after being charged over record cocaine haul linked to Mexican cartel

Police stopped 2.4 tonnes of cocaine from getting into Western Australia — said to be the biggest drug bust in Australia's history.  (Supplied: WA Police)

A second person in as many days has admitted their involvement in Australia's biggest ever drug bust that saw $1 billion worth of cocaine — linked to a Mexican drug cartel — seized by police in Western Australia.

American Justin Lujan Wetherbee, 39, was arrested at the end of December last year, amid a secret police investigation that started after the US Drug Enforcement Administration intercepted the 2.4 tonnes of cocaine off the South American coast.

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