A 59-year-old man has been charged with drug possession and other offences after a police raid on a Mareeba home on Sunday found cocaine and methylamphetamine buried in a sock in the backyard.

When police raided the Fraser Street, Mareeba, home, they allegedly found methylamphetamine, cocaine, cannabis and $5000 cash.

The Mareeba man was charged with a range of drug-possession offences, possessing drug utensils, and possession of property suspected of being acquired with proceeds of an offence.