Sydney's love affair with cocaine has exploded in the last 20 years, with the appetite for the drug across the city becoming increasingly 'insatiable'.
TV actors, models and wannabe gangsters who pose on Instagram in bikinis or with luxury cars displaying their tattoos and gangster bling have been arrested, convicted and sent off to jail.
NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics figures released this year showed a 12.5 per cent increase of cocaine use and possession arrests over the five years until 2020, whereas drugs like ecstasy had declined in popularity.
Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission suggests the nation's base of cocaine users is 'broadening', with a growing social acceptability of the drug.
Drug manufacturers of cocaine in South America see Australia as a lucrative market for large exports due to its high price - about $300 a gram - on Sydney streets.
NSW Police Minister David Elliott slammed the 'cocaine culture' which is particularly rife in Sydney's eastern suburbs.
Glamorous Bondi 'drugs pin-up girl' Danielle Tara Hogan has just been jailed for a maximum three years and 10 months for supplying 580 bags of cocaine in 370 deliveries across Sydney.
The 26-year-old, who posted photos of her lavish holidays, designer clothes and dinners at trendy beachfront bars despite being unemployed, is in prison for at least 17 months and won't be eligible for parole until April 2023.
Last year, hairdresser and glamour model Wethbet Almaali, also known as Lara Dior, was found unconscious behind the wheel of her pink Mercedes less than five months after she was caught driving with cocaine in her system.
She pleaded guilty to drug driving and was slapped with a fine.
Some, like former reality TV star Jordan Finlayson who fell into the grip fo a $5000-a-week drug habit and lost years of her young life to cocaine-fuelled parties, only received a relatively short sentence.
Glamorous Bondi 'drugs pin-up girl' Danielle Tara Hogan has just been jailed for a maximum three years and 10 months for delivering 600 bags of cocaine across Sydney
The 26-year-old (being arrested, above) who posted photos of lavish holidays and designer clothes, is in prison for at least 17 months and won't be eligible for parole until April 2023
Bondi party boy Darren John Mohr, 46, was jailed for a maximum 32 years over a $150m cocaine importation plot
The onetime Beauty and the Geek runner-up and ex-Penthouse model was caught dealing drugs in April 2020 and was jailed for a maximum 2 years and 3 months, but released in September this year.
Although her 18 months among female criminals in three different women's prisons left her traumatised and 'deeply ashamed', her jailing comes as no surprise after years of massive cocaine busts.
In April this year, police arrested designer-clad bikies after raids on gang strongholds where they seized bags of cash amounting to $1.2m, luxury cars, Rolex watches, Louis Vuitton sunglasses and 12.5kg of illicit drugs worth $12m, including Christian Dior-plated bricks of cocaine.
Just two months earlier, a massive 13kg of cocaine worth $5.8million was found hidden inside an air cargo consignment from Greece to Sydney of Capri wafer ice cream cone packets. If you liked this information and you would like to get more information relating to บาคาร่า kindly see our own website.
Last year, Bondi party boy Darren John Mohr, 46, was jailed for a maximum 32 years over a $150m cocaine importation plot.
The hulking former cafe owner had conspired to import 500kg of cocaine from Chile to the Sydney fish markets by boat in 2016.