{"id":818231,"date":"2026-07-23T07:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T07:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/818231\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T07:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T07:02:13","slug":"police-seize-kilogram-of-cocaine-during-bass-highway-traffic-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/818231\/","title":{"rendered":"Police seize kilogram of cocaine during Bass Highway traffic stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 34-year-old Launceston man has been charged after police allegedly seized about a kilogram of cocaine during a traffic stop on the Bass Highway near Deloraine.<\/p>\n<p>Officers allegedly noticed a vehicle being driven erratically and pulled it over about 8:45am on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A Tasmania Police spokesperson said officers \u201clocated a kilogram of cocaine concealed inside a bag\u201d during a search of the car.<\/p>\n<p>The man was taken into custody and later charged with serious drug and firearm offences.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators then executed a search warrant at a residential property, where they allegedly located evidence relating to drug offences, a quantity of ammunition and a stolen firearm.<\/p>\n<p>Police will allege the firearm is linked to an aggravated burglary reported in Beaconsfield earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The man was detained to appear in the Launceston Magistrates Court today. Investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 34-year-old Launceston man has been charged after police allegedly seized about a kilogram of cocaine during a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-818231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818231","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=818231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}