Free abelian subgroups of SL(3,$\mathbb{Z}$)

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Does SL(3,$\mathbb{Z}$) have any free abelian subgroup of rank > 2?

I want to find 3 $\times$ 3 integer matrices with determinant 1 such that the matrices are commutative, but there exists no other "relation" between the matrices.