Cocaine importation trial: Phone messages led to bag of cocaine buried in Auckland

Detectives in an international drug smuggling case pieced together information from notes and text messages to find a black rubbish bag of cocaine buried in the mud of an Auckland park, RNZ reports. Ryszard Wilk, Patryk Lukasik and Aleksandr Cherushev are on trial at the High Court in Auckland for importing and dealing 4kg of cocaine in 2016 and 2017. The three were alleged to have shipped and dealt the drug in New Zealand.