{"id":309009,"date":"2025-11-26T02:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T02:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/309009\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T02:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T02:45:11","slug":"two-young-new-zealand-women-facing-life-in-prison-over-33-million-find-in-their-suitcases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/309009\/","title":{"rendered":"Two young New Zealand women facing life in prison over $33 million find in their suitcases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>T\ufeffwo New Zealand women have been charged after more than $33 million worth of meth was found inside their suitcases at Melbourne Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The pair, both aged 22, were chosen for a baggage examination after they arrived in Australia from Malaysia yesterday. \ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Border force officers allegedly found while crystal substance in both suitcases, totalling 36kg.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/f31b401d-15f5-4339-9421-6608cfe91cc2.png\"   alt=\"T&#xFEFF;wo New Zealand women have been charged after more than $33 million worth of meth was found inside their suitcases at Melbourne Airport. \"\/>T\ufeffwo New Zealand women have been charged after more than $33 million worth of meth was found inside their suitcases. (Australia Border Force)<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/6c3feaf9-7662-4b28-a324-9d6a82de9399.png\"   alt=\"T&#xFEFF;wo New Zealand women have been charged after more than $33 million worth of meth was found inside their suitcases at Melbourne Airport. \"\/>Border force officers allegedly found while crystal substance in both suitcases. (Australian Border Force)<\/p>\n<p>That substance tested positive for meth. <\/p>\n<p>The quantity of the drug had an estimated street value of more than $33 million.<\/p>\n<p>The women were arrested and both charged with \ufeffimporting a commercial quantity of a border-controlled drug and possessing a commercial quantity of a border-controlled drug.<\/p>\n<p>They are facing a maximum penalty of life in prison.<\/p>\n<p>The pair will spend the holidays behind bars ahead of their next appearance at the Melbourne Magistrates&#8217; Court in March.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/a0f8a1ec-8e0e-4e05-90f8-9b87245338d9.png\"   alt=\"T&#xFEFF;wo New Zealand women have been charged after more than $33 million worth of meth was found inside their suitcases at Melbourne Airport. \"\/>The women were arrested and both charged. (Australian Border Force)<\/p>\n<p>Australian Border Force \ufeffSuperintendent Ian Beasant said officers were seizing significant quantities of drugs at the border.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Organised crime groups share one motivating factor for their nefarious activities and that is accumulating profit,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ABF will continue working closely with our partners using intelligence-led targeting to ensure our border is secure.&#8221;\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"T\ufeffwo New Zealand women have been charged after more than $33 million worth of meth was found inside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-309009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309009","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=309009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}