Police anticipate further drug arrests and charges in the coming weeks as Strike Force Idlewild continues to investigate.
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Their raids have now resulted in 20 arrests in the Ulladulla, Nowra, Batemans Bay and Moruya districts.
A total of six men from the Milton-Ulladulla district are charged with drug offences after last week’s actions along the coast.
Three were arrested on Tuesday and three on Wednesday as Shoalhaven and South Coast police teamed up with Strike Force Idlewild and the State Protection Group’s Tactical Operations Unit.
Four of the men are from Ulladulla, one is from Burrill Lake and one from Kioloa.
Two Ulladulla men, aged 36 and 52, are charged with multiple counts of supplying a prohibited drug.
A 38-year-old man from Burrill Lake is charged with four counts of supplying a prohibited drug and supplying a prohibited drug on an ongoing basis.
They will appear at Milton court on Thursday, June 16.
Heard by residents, police fired tactical rounds at one location during arrests in Ulladulla.
“It sounded bloody real, not live ammo but made a lot of noise,” one witness said.
On Wednesday police arrested two more Ulladulla men and one from Kioloa.
A 29-year-old Ulladulla man charged with supplying a prohibited drug and and a 29-year-old Kiola man charged with two counts of supplying a prohibited drug will appear at Nowra court on June 20.
A 19-year-old Ulladulla will appear at Milton court on July 28, charged with supplying a prohibited drug and taking part in the supply of a prohibited drug.
Initially nine people were charged following raids in Worrigee, Ulladulla, Burrill Lake, Batemans Bay, Moruya, Surfside and Catalina on Tuesday.
Four appeared at Bega and were refused bail.
After further investigations eight more from Nowra, Ulladulla, Kiola, Batemans Bay, Catalina and Moruya were arrested on Wednesday.
Now another two 40-year old women and a 41-year old man from the Bay area have been charged and bailed.
Stephen Brian Ecclestone, 52, from Catalina - one of four men refused bail in Bega Court because the prosecution said there was a risk he would fail to appear again - asked “so what happens about my dog and house?”
He appeared before magistrate Doug Dick dressed in a faded green prison tracksuit.
