{"id":316263,"date":"2026-03-06T16:49:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/316263\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T16:49:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:49:26","slug":"tip-off-leads-to-cannabis-raid-at-cromwell-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/316263\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip-off leads to cannabis raid at Cromwell address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"File photo: Gregor Richardson\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-default\" data-delta=\"2\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cromwell_sign.jpg\" width=\"4562\" height=\"1586\"\/><\/p>\n<p>File photo: Gregor Richardson<\/p>\n<p>Two 50-year-olds were arrested when Cromwell police using a search warrant found cannabis for supply at the pair&#8217;s address.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the raid followed a tip-off through a Crime Stoppers report.<\/p>\n<p>Officers found $8000 cash and around two kilograms of cannabis at a residential address.<\/p>\n<p>A man and woman, both aged 50, were taken into custody without incident, polcie said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Otago Lakes Central Area commander Inspector Paula Enoka said it was a &#8220;great result&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will always work hard to disrupt the supply of illicit drugs within our communities, however we cannot do this alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cromwell police wanted to thank whoever provided the anonymous information.<\/p>\n<p>The 50-year-old man and woman were due to appear in Alexandra District Court on 12 March, charged with possessing cannabis for supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File photo: Gregor Richardson Two 50-year-olds were arrested when Cromwell police using a search warrant found cannabis for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-316263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","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\/316263","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=316263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}