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Cocaine catamaran case: Craig Lembke found guilty of importing 700 kilograms of cocaine

By Sam Rigney
Updated October 24 2019 - 8:20am, first published October 23 2019 - 8:00pm
GUILTY: Craig Lembke was on Wednesday found guilty of importing a commercial quantity of a border controlled drug, which carries a maximum of life imprisonment.
GUILTY: Craig Lembke was on Wednesday found guilty of importing a commercial quantity of a border controlled drug, which carries a maximum of life imprisonment.

CRAIG Lembke was a talented saxophonist and an accomplished flautist, an established and well-known member of the Newcastle music scene for the past three decades with his upmarket wedding band Saxanova. And he was a regular at yacht clubs in Newcastle and Lake Macquarie, a passionate sailor and teacher who hoped to make a living picking up and delivering yachts for the super rich.

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