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BREAKING | CRAIG LEMBKE JAILED OVER COCAINE YACHT IMPORT

Newcastle musician, Craig Lembke has been jailed for at least 6 years for helping import hundreds of millions of dollars of cocaine on board a yacht.

Lembke was sentenced to a maximum 9 years in Coffs Harbour District Court this afternoon.

The 50-year was found guilty of sailing the 13-metre catamaran, which was packed with 700-kilograms of cocaine, from Tahiti to Toronto in 2017.

He’s the third person to be jailed over the drug haul.

Lembke will be eligible for parole in November 2023.

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Tyson Cottrill

Tyson Cottrill is a senior reporter and newsreader for Nine NBN News, based in Newcastle. As the Chief Court Reporter, Tyson has covered some of the biggest court cases from across the Hunter and northern New South Wales. Tyson started with the Nine Network in 2007 and has worked in newsrooms in Sydney, the Gold Coast, and Brisbane. A proud Novocastrian, Tyson has spent the majority of his journalism career reporting on the stories that matter in his hometown. Tyson has a Bachelor of Communications from Charles Sturt University.

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