{"id":217855,"date":"2026-01-05T13:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/217855\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T13:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:13:12","slug":"woman-charged-with-bringing-22kgs-of-meth-into-the-country-in-her-checked-luggage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/217855\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman charged with bringing 22kgs of meth into the country in her checked luggage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4LN7SQL_Auck_Airport_1_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"496\" alt=\"Auckland Airport international terminal\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nThe woman had arrived at Auckland International Airport from Singapore. (File photo)<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Samuel Rillstone\n<\/p>\n<p>A woman has been charged with bringing more than 20 kilograms of meth into the country in her checked luggage.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old was arrested at Auckland International airport on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents claim she arrived on a flight from Singapore with roughly 22 kilograms of methamphetamine.<\/p>\n<p>She had been charged with importing a class A controlled drug.<\/p>\n<p>The maximum sentence was life imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents show the woman was both unemployed and had no fixed abode.<\/p>\n<p>She was expected to appear in Manukau District Court on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The woman had arrived at Auckland International Airport from Singapore. (File photo) Photo: RNZ \/ Samuel Rillstone A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-217855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217855","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=217855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}