{"id":437895,"date":"2026-01-26T04:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/437895\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T04:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:56:14","slug":"son-in-law-of-mp-lenora-qereqeretabua-among-five-charged-in-vatia-drug-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/437895\/","title":{"rendered":"Son-in-Law of MP Lenora Qereqeretabua among five charged in Vatia drug bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Hill, the son-in-law of MP Lenora Qereqeretabua, is among the five people charged in relation to the Vatia drug bust.<\/p>\n<p>Hill was produced at the Ba Magistrates Court today alongside four others as investigations into the seizure continue.<\/p>\n<p>Before entering the courtroom, Hill shared a brief message directed at his loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>He held a note to the media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry Mama and Jhaday. I \u2764\ufe0f U\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The five accused have been charged following consultations with the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. Police investigations into the matter are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonathan Hill, the son-in-law of MP Lenora Qereqeretabua, is among the five people charged in relation to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-437895","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\/437895","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=437895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}