{"id":429137,"date":"2026-05-15T15:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/429137\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T15:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:26:10","slug":"3-men-in-custody-after-suspected-drugs-found-in-nasinu-magistrates-court-compound-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/429137\/","title":{"rendered":"3 men in custody after suspected drugs found in Nasinu Magistrates Court compound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three men are in police custody after they were allegedly found in possession of illicit drugs in the Nasinu Magistrates Court compound.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the men were suspected of carrying drugs, and drugs were found during a search.<\/p>\n<p>They have not been charged yet as police await the results of drug analysis.<\/p>\n<p>The incident has drawn attention following a viral video circulating on social media, which appears to show officers allegedly using force while arresting the three men within the court compound.<\/p>\n<p>The footage also shows an officer climbing over a fence, searching for other individuals who may have fled and hidden nearby.<\/p>\n<p>A taxi seen in the video was also searched by officers during the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three men are in police custody after they were allegedly found in possession of illicit drugs in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[219634,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-429137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-drugs-feature","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429137","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=429137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}