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WA Police have seized 33 kilograms of methamphetamine and 50,000 pills allegedly found hidden under a bed in a motorhome after it entered the state.
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Police allege Mr Oueida is the principal person behind the operation
He has been remanded in custody and will reappear in court on May 12
Police said the rented motorhome was monitored by officers as it entered WA on Thursday, April 15 after crossing the border at Eucla from Melbourne.
Officers from the Drug and Firearm Squad stopped the vehicle near Kellerberrin, in WA s Wheatbelt, at about 7:30pm on Friday.
Police arrested a 35-year-old man and a 42-year-old woman, both from Victoria, who were inside the vehicle.
The clean-up is beginning in the wake of ex-Cyclone Seroja, with homes damaged and destroyed as the storm made landfall overnight in Western Australia.
A severe weather warning previously in place in the state s south-east has now been cancelled as the storm drifts off the coast, with Seroja downgraded to a tropical low this morning.
Winds of up to 170km/h were recorded at Karlbarri, north of Geraldton on the WA coast, overnight after the cyclone hit just after 7pm (AWST).
Ex-cyclone Seroja dealt out heavy damage when made landfall in WA overnight.(9News)
A roof lies on the road in Kalbarri.(Darius Winterfield/9News)
A red alert is in place for an 800km-stretch of coastline south of Carnarvon to Lancelin. People in those areas are being warned to stay at home or inside an evacuation centre.
Cyclone Seroja Snapped Tree Limbs ‘Like Carrots’
The West Australian town of Kalbarri has suffered widespread damage in the wake of tropical cyclone Seroja, which tore across the midwest coast overnight.
Seroja made landfall south of the town, about 8 p.m. on Sunday, as a category three storm with wind gusts up to 170 km/h.
Kalbarri, which lies 580 kilometres north of Perth, is home to about 1,400 people.
“I’ve never experienced anything in my life like we experienced last night,” resident and caravan park manager Debbie Major told ABC television on Monday.
“It’s only a small town … half of it has been flattened.”
Residents across an 800km stretch of Western Australia have been told to stay at home as Tropical Cyclone Seroja makes landfall on the state's mid west coast.