A 44-year-old man from Boorloo/Perth has been charged with smuggling alcohol and other drugs into the Kimberley region.
Kimberley Police intercepted a vehicle on the Great Northern Highway in Broome, suspected of trafficking drugs and alcohol into the region on New Year's Eve.
Police told media that during a search of the vehicle, they found alcohol - including but not limited to 44 boxes of four-litre cask wine, 120 cans of Emu Export Lager, and five bottles of Jack Daniel's Bourbon - and 2.5 kilograms of cannabis.
The man allegedly travelled from Perth to Broome with the intention of sly grogging.
Police allege the drugs and alcohol were going to be sold at highly inflated prices in remote Aboriginal communities in the Kimberley, the ABC reports.
The Bassendean man faced Broome Magistrates Court on January 2.
Last month a prominent Kimberley figure Cyril Mark Yeeda appeared in court charged over the alleged sale of alcohol at inflated prices in dry communities in the Kimberley, sparking debate over long-standing alcohol restrictions in the region.
