Drugs worth $150k found in man's swag Police have found a commercial quantity of drugs stashed in luggage on a bus in Alice Springs overnight.

Police were checking the bus from Adelaide when sniffer dogs found an estimated $150,000 worth of drugs in a 24-year-old man's swag.

They say more than 2.5 kilograms of cannabis and 45 ecstasy tablets were found.

Duty Superintendent Bob Rennie says the man was not supposed to be on the bus.

"This chap was driving up in his own car from Adelaide, broke down near Coober Pedy, left his car there and jumped on the bus to come to Alice," he said.

"He was arrested and charged with related offences of possess supply commercial quantity of cannabis and a trafficable quantity of MDMA."

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swag can be used figuratively to mean luggage, or literally (possessions wrapped in blanket & carried on the back)

traditional swag carried by by men on the road back in the olden days either workers heading for their next job, or unemployed men trying to find a job in hard times

modern swags used by campers/hikers