{"id":411006,"date":"2026-05-04T08:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T08:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/411006\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T08:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T08:36:14","slug":"power-gel-explosives-guns-drugs-found-at-murchison-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/411006\/","title":{"rendered":"Power gel explosives, guns, drugs found at Murchison property"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 60-year-old man is facing charges after police located guns and explosives at a property in Murchison.<\/p>\n

Last week, police were at the rural address investigating reports of illegal firearms.<\/p>\n

Inquiries resulted in the search of the property and the recovery of a shotgun, a .22 rifle, a revolver, ammunition and drugs.<\/p>\n

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(Source: New Zealand Police)<\/p>\n

Senior Sergeant Micaela Rolton noted the firearms were “all loaded and not secured in a safe”.<\/p>\n

Police also found more than 17 power gel sticks of explosives.<\/p>\n

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(Source: New Zealand Police)<\/p>\n

Rolton said the explosives and ordinance disposal team from the New Zealand Defence Force were advised, and the team arrived and safely disposed of the explosives shortly after.<\/p>\n

“The Explosives Ordinance Disposal team from the New Zealand Defence Force were advised and the team arrived and safely disposed of the explosives shortly after.”<\/p>\n

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(Source: New Zealand Police)<\/p>\n

The 60-year-old was arrested, and has been charged with unlawful possession of firearms, unlawful carrying and possession of an explosive device, possession of methamphetamine for supply, and possession of cannabis.<\/p>\n

He is due to appear in the Nelson District Court later this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 60-year-old man is facing charges after police located guns and explosives at a property in Murchison. Last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,43,2224,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-411006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-tasman","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411006","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=411006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}