{"id":217505,"date":"2026-01-05T07:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/217505\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T07:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:49:09","slug":"homeless-woman-allegedly-had-20kg-of-meth-in-luggage-at-auckland-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/217505\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeless woman allegedly had 20kg of meth in luggage at Auckland Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">A woman has been charged with allegedly bringing more than 20kg of meth into the country in her checked luggage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">By Finn Blackwell of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/583229\/woman-charged-with-allegedly-bringing-22kgs-of-meth-into-the-country-in-her-checked-luggage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RNZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The 33-year-old was arrested at Auckland International airport on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Court documents claimed she arrived on a flight from Singapore with roughly 22kg of methamphetamine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">She had been charged with importing a class A controlled drug.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The maximum sentence was life imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Court documents show the woman was both unemployed and had no fixed abode.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">She was expected to appear in Manukau District Court on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has been charged with allegedly bringing more than 20kg of meth into the country in her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-217505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-auckland","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217505","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=217505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}