{"id":428457,"date":"2026-05-15T05:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/428457\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T05:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:14:07","slug":"police-uncover-125-bags-of-synthetic-drugs-in-hamilton-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/428457\/","title":{"rendered":"Police uncover 125 bags of synthetic drugs in Hamilton raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been arrested after 125 individually packaged bags of synthetic drugs were found by officers during a Hamilton raid. <\/p>\n<p>Police said the drugs appeared to be ready for sale, with a total estimated street value of around $2500. <\/p>\n<p>Officers also found cannabis, drug utensils, illegally held ammunition, and cash believed to be the proceeds of offending.  <\/p>\n<p>A 58-year-old man was charged with supplying a psychoactive substance and possession of cannabis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This type of product can have serious adverse effects when consumed, as well as addiction and associated offending,&#8221; police said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police are committed to disrupting the supply of such harmful substances from our communities.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested after 125 individually packaged bags of synthetic drugs were found by officers during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,9001,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-428457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-hamilton-waikato","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\/428457","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=428457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}