{"id":494206,"date":"2026-02-21T07:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T07:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/494206\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T07:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T07:52:08","slug":"drugs-with-estimated-street-value-of-1-45-million-seized-in-traffic-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/494206\/","title":{"rendered":"Drugs with estimated street value of $1.45 million seized in traffic stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police say they have seized drugs with an estimated street value of almost $1.5 million from a vehicle during a traffic stop on a New South Wales highway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police said the 22-year-old male driver was stopped by Highway Patrol officers at 12:40am on Saturday on the Pacific Highway at Nabiac, on the state&#8217;s Mid North Coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">It is alleged the man tested positive for cocaine following a roadside drug test.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Following his arrest, the vehicle he was driving was searched and police said they found 4 kilograms of cocaine and 45kg of cannabis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police have estimated the total street value of the drugs is $1.45 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A total of $980 in cash and several electronic devices were also found in the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">It is alleged the driver provided officers with a a fake driver&#8217;s licence before it was discovered the man was a suspended learner driver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He was charged with numerous offences including the supply and possession of prohibited drugs, and driving while suspended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He was refused bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say they have seized drugs with an estimated street value of almost $1.5 million from a vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[100471,64,63,10697,42895,5864,1730,249236,44,249235,1158,182471,125075,5866],"class_list":{"0":"post-494206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-arrested","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-cannabis","12":"tag-cocaine","13":"tag-driver","14":"tag-drugs","15":"tag-highway-patrol","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-pacific-highway","18":"tag-police","19":"tag-seized","20":"tag-seizure","21":"tag-vehicle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494206","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=494206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}