{"id":224783,"date":"2025-10-19T09:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T09:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/224783\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T09:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T09:12:08","slug":"man-charged-after-police-allegedly-find-estimated-6-3-million-worth-of-drugs-in-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/224783\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after police allegedly find estimated $6.3 million worth of drugs in car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 30-year-old man has been accused of possessing a commercial quantity of cocaine and ice worth a combined estimated street value of more than $6.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>The man was arrested on the Sturt Highway at Hay in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/new-south-wales\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"NSW Riverina region\">NSW Riverina region<\/a> after police stopped \ufeffhis car as a part of routine patrols at 2pm on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Police asked the man to take a roadside breath test, which returned a negative result.<\/p>\n<p>Officers then asked the man to \ufeffcomplete a roadside drug test, which allegedly returned a positive result.<\/p>\n<p>Police searched the vehicle where they allegedly found more than five kilos of methlyamphetamine, almost 11kg cocaine, more than $130,000 cash and two mobile phones.\u00a0\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>The driver was arrested and taken to Hay Police Station where he was charged with seven offences.<\/p>\n<p>This includes two counts of supplying a prohibited drug equal to or more than large commercial quantity, recklessly deal with proceeds of general crime with value of $100,000 or more, three counts of goods in personal custody suspected being stolen (not motor vehicle) and possessing a prohibited drug.<\/p>\n<p>The man will appear before Griffith Local Court on Wednesday, October 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 30-year-old man has been accused of possessing a commercial quantity of cocaine and ice worth a combined&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-224783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224783","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=224783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}