An Australian fitness model has been arrested on charges of drug smuggling after a late-night police raid in Brisbane.
Mary Molloy, 25, boasts 70,000 followers on Instagram and describes herself as a "WBFF Fitness Pro". She was taken into custody alongside her former boyfriend, 32-year-old Jason Atkins.
The pair have been charged as part of an MDMA smuggling ring operating out of Queensland and were picked up as part of a string of raids in the Brisbane districts of Teneriffe and Newstead.
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Their charges include trafficking, the supply of MDMA, possession of MDMA and possession of articles used in a crime. Molloy has also been charged for cocaine trafficking.
Police in Queensland are attempting to link the couple to other raids back in November, which picked up two other suspects, Lucy Molloy and Russell Johnston.
Atkins is accused of being part of a syndicate that transported the drugs from Sydney up to Brisbane, a distance of almost 1000 kilometres, and link him to a property at which they found industrial quantities of drugs.
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They claim that the 24,000 MDMA pills that were seized in the raids had a street value of $1 million Australian Dollars - around £540,000.
Molloy had been in a relationship with Mr Atkins until just three weeks ago, writing, 'I love my human, I'm so lucky' in a post with Atkins.
They appeared in court together on Wednesday and were granted bail, with a summons to return on April 30th to stand charges.
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Queensland, the state in which Molloy and Atkins live, has some of the toughest drug laws in Australia. There was a statewide crackdown on so-called bikies, or motorcycle gangs, who are associated with the drug trade, which resulted in seemingly harmless acts such as wearing motorcycle club colours and owning tattoo parlours.
It also sought to classify bikers under the same terms as paedophiles and terrorists. The law was struck down, but other legislation has been proposed to supposedly tackle drug-related bikie gangs.
While most Western countries have been in the process of legalising and regulating marijuana, Queensland chose in 2016 to reclassify soft drugs such as cannabis to be liable for the same punishments as hard drugs like crystal meth, heroin and cocaine.