{"id":180260,"date":"2025-12-12T13:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/180260\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T13:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:53:10","slug":"whangamata-meth-bust-police-seize-drugs-after-community-tip-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/180260\/","title":{"rendered":"Whangamat\u0101 meth bust: Police seize drugs after community tip-off"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThis great catch was a direct result of information provided to police by members of the public.<\/p>\n

\u201cThanks to the information they have given us, we were able to intercept a significant amount of methamphetamine, that was packaged and ready for sale to vulnerable members of our community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamilton said a \u201csignificant amount of harm\u201d had been prevented thanks to people picking up the phone and coming to see police.<\/p>\n

\u201cPolice have no tolerance for this type of offending, and it\u2019s great to see members of the public standing up for their community and reporting suspicious and criminal behaviour.<\/p>\n

\u201cDrugs like methamphetamine cause untold harm to its users, their families, and the community as a whole.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople steal to feed their habits and the damage keeps on going. Taking out these suppliers does a world of good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Police are encouraging anyone with information about any kind of offending to get in touch.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour identity will be well protected, so please contact us via 105 or come and see us at the local station,\u201d Hamilton said.<\/p>\n

Anonymous reports can also be made through Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThis great catch was a direct result of information provided to police by members of the public. \u201cThanks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,14798,29950,1259,25137,1757,71,305,42,9832,296,1868,13240,43,675,39728,19862,114781,114782,40,38,41,39,2951,99704],"class_list":["post-180260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-anonymous","tag-bust","tag-community","tag-disrupt","tag-drugs","tag-from","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-helped","tag-into","tag-meth","tag-methamphetamine","tag-news","tag-police","tag-seize","tag-supply","tag-tipoff","tag-tipoffs","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-town","tag-whangamat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}