Tasmania Police is today extraditing a man and a woman from New South Wales to Hobart, after they failed to appear in the Supreme Court last Monday, 14 October.

The 48-year-old woman and 49-year-old man are on trial for trafficking in a controlled substance, where it is alleged they were involved in the importing of approximately $700,000 worth of illicit drugs into Tasmania in 2019.

The investigation into the drug trafficking formed part of Operation Advance which was a joint operation between Tasmania Police and the Australian Federal Police (AFP).

Tasmania Police and AFP would like to recognise the assistance provided by NSW Police in the extradition, after officers arrested the pair on Sunday.