Two-time Olympic medalist Scott Miller was arrested on drugs charges after a series of raids in Sydney on Wednesday.
Police said they found handguns, drugs, a large amount of cash and a commercial pill press after raiding the storage facility of an alleged ecstasy ring.
Police said they found a pill press capable of producing 27,000 pills an hour and a professional tablet counter after searching th storage facility in northern Sydney.
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Miller, 33, and Mark Catchpole, the son former Australian rugby great Ken Catchpole, were arrested shortly afterwards.
Miller, now retired, won a silver medal in the 100m butterfly and a bronze medal in the 4x100m medley relay at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996. Catchpole, son of former Wallabies skipper Ken Catchpole, played representative rugby at state level.
Catchpole, 40, was refused bail yesterday after appearing in court on charges including possession of a prohibited drug, firearms offenses, supplying a prohibited drug and dealing with proceeds of crime.
Miller was granted bail to face court on May 7 on charges of possessing a tablet press, possessing a prescribed restricted substance and possessing an offensive weapon.
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