{"id":897506,"date":"2026-09-19T08:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T08:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/897506\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T08:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T08:04:09","slug":"woman-charged-after-police-intercept-drug-importation-bound-for-mildura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/897506\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman charged after police intercept drug importation bound for Mildura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A woman has been arrested and charged in Mildura after police intercepted an illegal drug importation en route to the regional Victorian city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Victoria Police allege the 33-year-old attempted to import about 500ml of 1,4-Butanediol, also known as bute, which Australian Federal Police describe as &#8220;a harmful substance that is linked to sexual assaults and overdoses&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The woman&#8217;s arrest was part of a multi-agency investigation, with Australian Border Force intercepting the drugs at Melbourne Airport in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Detectives from the Mildura Divisional Response Unit arrested the woman at a Mildura address on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">She was charged with the Commonwealth offence of importing a marketable quantity of a border-controlled substance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">She has been remanded to appear before the Mildura Magistrates Court on December 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has been arrested and charged in Mildura after police intercepted an illegal drug importation en route&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[45387,64,63,466220,466219,6013,79972,93534,48066,44,16642],"class_list":["post-897506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-arrest","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-butanediol","tag-bute","tag-drug","tag-drug-importation","tag-import","tag-mildura","tag-news","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897506","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=897506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}