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Australian police busted an international drug smuggling ring, arresting five people in connection with a billion-dollar haul discovered on a tiny Western Australian island.

And they owe it all to a giant, angry seal.

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On Tuesday, Sept. 3, police found Frenchman Antonine Robert Dicenta, 51, and Briton Kurt Palmer, 34, crouching on Burton Island with over 900 kilograms of crystal meth, cocaine and ecstasy, hidden in bags under a mass of seaweed.

Police went to the island after receiving reports of a yacht that had run aground nearby. Concerned about the yacht’s occupants after noticing its dinghy was missing, they searched the surrounding area using planes. A crayfisherman then noticed one of the men hiding in the island scrub, according to Damien Healy, a volunteer marine rescue service member.

Once spotted, Dicenta and Palmer allegedly tried to run for it — only to be blocked by a sleeping, “big, huge seal.”