{"id":19718,"date":"2025-09-13T08:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T08:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/19718\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T08:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T08:52:09","slug":"cocaine-sawn-off-shotgun-and-ammo-seized-in-queenstown-police-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/19718\/","title":{"rendered":"Cocaine, sawn-off shotgun and ammo seized in Queenstown police stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">A large quantity of small plastic bags and a set of electronic scales were also seized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIllegal firearms have no place in our community,\u201d Otago Lakes Central area commander Inspector Paula Enoka said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cTaking weapons and drugs off Queenstown streets makes everyone in our town safer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">Enoka said the message was clear: drug dealing and the harm that comes with it \u201cisn\u2019t welcome here\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPolice will continue to focus on disrupting the supply of drugs and hold to account those who are financially gaining through this harm,\u201d Enoka said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">If you have concerns about illegal drug use in your community, please call 111 if there is an immediate risk to safety or to make a report, please call 105.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large quantity of small plastic bags and a set of electronic scales were also seized. \u201cIllegal firearms&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20931,74,7818,20929,20934,95,1873,20926,9881,15226,1874,42,78,20932,43,675,20930,20927,12641,20933,20928,1324,40,38,41,39,6845],"class_list":["post-19718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-30yearold","tag-after","tag-allegedly","tag-ammo","tag-ammunition","tag-and","tag-charges","tag-cocaine","tag-facing","tag-firearm","tag-found","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-modified","tag-news","tag-police","tag-queenstown","tag-sawnoff","tag-seized","tag-shells","tag-shotgun","tag-stop","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19718","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=19718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}