{"id":224610,"date":"2025-10-19T07:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T07:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/224610\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T07:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T07:21:07","slug":"more-than-6-million-of-cocaine-and-methylamphetamine-seized-during-vehicle-stop-in-southern-nsw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/224610\/","title":{"rendered":"More than $6 million of cocaine and methylamphetamine seized during vehicle stop in southern NSW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A man has been charged after police allegedly seized a commercial quantity of illicit drugs in a vehicle stop in south-west New South Wales.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">At about 2pm on Friday, highway patrol officers on the Sturt Highway at Hay, in the NSW Riverina region, stopped a black luxury SUV to conduct a random breath test and roadside drug test on the driver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The 30-year-old driver of the vehicle returned a negative breath test for alcohol but a positive result for drugs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The man was then searched and police allegedly found cocaine and cash in his possession.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police then searched the vehicle and allegedly seized more than 5kg of methylamphetamine and more than 11kg of cocaine, more than $130,000 in cash and two mobile phones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">NSW Police estimate the street value of the drugs seized is more than $6.3 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The driver was arrested and charged with seven offences, including two counts of supply prohibited drug equal or more than large commercial quantity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He was refused bail and will appear before Griffith Local Court on October 29.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged after police allegedly seized a commercial quantity of illicit drugs in a vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8879,42895,1730,25975,43,54582,3977,44,4277,102349,33924,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-224610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-cash","tag-cocaine","tag-drugs","tag-hay","tag-headlines","tag-methylamphetamine","tag-mobile-phones","tag-news","tag-nsw-police","tag-riverina","tag-sturt-highway","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}