Former ABC presenter arrested and charged with 23 offences
A former ABC news presenter has been arrested after a police investigation found a stash of illegal drugs in two hotel rooms.
Ashley Hall was arrested in Sydney’s CBD on Wednesday after police raided two hotel rooms and found illegal drugs worth a whopping $600,000.
The 52-year-old was arrested and charged with 23 offences, including eight counts of supplying a prohibited drug at an indictable commercial quantity.
Soon after his arrest, police conducted a search of two hotel rooms in Wentworth Street and Bond Street, Sydney.
During the search warrants, officers seized 500 MDMA tablets, 100g of cocaine, 3.2kg of 1,4-butanediol, 700g of methylamphetamine, more than a 1kg of cannabis, and more than $70,000 cash.
"That male would come and go from those hotel rooms to meet with different buyers of those drugs where he would supply large quantities of GHB, cocaine, meth and MDMA," Detective Acting Superintendent Ben Kinns said.
Hall was denied bail and is due to appear in court in February 2023.
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