EXCLUSIVE: From running a coffee truck to a comical $200MILLION drug blunder: Inside the life of a man 'caught smuggling 273kg of ice after crashing into two parked police cars'
- Police made extraordinary claims about about an unlucky alleged drug runner
- Simon Tu, 26, is accused of ploughing his van into two police cars on Monday
- Investigators claim he did not stop and was pulled over by cops an hour later
- Officers found 273kg worth of ice in back of the van Tu was driving
- Before his alleged crime, Tu worked as a franchisee for a coffee van business
This is the man accused of being the world's unluckiest criminal, allegedly caught with a $200 million drug shipment after crashing into two parked police cars.
New South Wales police claim Simon Tu, 26, caught their attention when he accidentally smashed his van into the cars on Monday.
Tu allegedly failed to stop after the brutal smash outside the local police station in Eastwood, Sydney.
He was pulled over by officers an hour later, but officers never could have anticipated what they would find in the back of his van.
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Accused: Simon Tu, 26, was charged with supplying a large commercial quantity of a prohibited drug, negligent driving and failing to give his particulars to police
The damage: Officers were certainly going to notice after Tu's van allegedly sideswiped their car out the front of a police station in Eastwood on Monday
How it happened: Tu is accused of accidentally ramming two parked police cars in Eastwood (left) on Monday morning and then failing to stop. He was later pulled over 3km away in Ryde
Investigators will allege that the white Toyota HiAce Tiwas driving was crammed full of 13 cardboard boxes packed with a total of 273kg in crystal methylamphetamine.
'(He) has certainly had a very, very bad day,' said Detective Chief Inspector Glyn Baker.
'Crashing into a police vehicle with that amount of drugs on board is somewhat unheard of.'
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Police raided Tu's family home in Berala on Tuesday afternoon, with neighbours taken aback by the scale of his alleged drug run.
Until recently, Tu was working as a franchisee of a mobile coffee van business, Cafe2U, in the Greenacre area.
Daily Mail Australia understands one of Simon's two older brothers brought him into the coffee business, but it was not to last.
What was hiding in the back: Police allege 13 cardboard boxes crammed with crystal methylamphetamie, or ice, were in the back of the van
In a media release, police said officers seized 273kg of ice in total - with an estimated potential street value of more than $200 million
The cardboard boxes were loaded out of the van and meticulously pored through by gloved New South Wales police officers
'I wanted to expand and I also wanted to help out my younger brother,' one sibling said in an interview with a small business magazine in 2015.
'I suggested he come out with me on my run - he instantly understood why I loved it so much.'
(There's no suggestion whatsover of a link between Simon's alleged plot, the business he once worked for or Simon's siblings.)
Neighbourhood in shock: Nobody answered the buzzer at the Tu family home in Sydney's south-west on Wednesday - a coffee truck parked out the front
A floored neighbour who witnessed the police raid on Simon Tu's home could only shake his head and exclaim '$200 million!' when told what he was allegedly involved in.
The neighbour said he had never seen the van Tu allegedly drove on Monday at the family home.
He said that his only issue with Tu was when he allegedly fired an arrow at the adjoining fence several years ago.
'They (the family) are good, usually,' he said.
Police have charged Tu with large commercial drug supply, negligent driving and failing to notify a police officer of an accident.
He appeared in front of Burwood Local Court by video link on Tuesday. He did not apply for bail and it formally refused.
Outside court, his lawyer Raymond Zhai said: 'My client has exercised his right to silence and I'm declining to comment on his behalf.
Mr Zhai said his client was doing 'as well as a man can be in custody.'
Tu will return to court on September 25. Police are beginning to search for whoever else was involved in the alleged drug plot.
