{"id":458351,"date":"2026-06-03T06:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T06:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/458351\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T06:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T06:06:08","slug":"wellington-airport-drug-bust-39kg-of-meth-found-disguised-as-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/458351\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellington Airport drug bust: 39kg of meth found disguised as tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">Customs said the seizure had an estimated street value of $13 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">Central and Southern Airports manager Brittany Small said the case highlighted how young New Zealanders were being \u201clured and exploited into dangerous criminal activity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Two women were charged with the importation of a Class A controlled drug after 39kg of methamphetamine was seized by Customs at Wellington Airport. Photo \/ Customs\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Two women were charged with the importation of a Class A controlled drug after 39kg of methamphetamine was seized by Customs at Wellington Airport. Photo \/ Customs<\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis is not a shortcut to riches. This is a surefire way to change the trajectory of your life \u2013 risking your freedom, your future, and to end up spending your best years in jail,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">The women appeared in Wellington District Court yesterday, charged with the importation of a Class A controlled drug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Customs said the seizure had an estimated street value of $13 million. Central and Southern Airports manager Brittany&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[232824,74,2681,7818,806,1558,29950,13239,17899,13919,3401,1874,305,1868,13240,111,43,139,69,1118,23421,12641,27319,52,2248],"class_list":["post-458351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-39kg","tag-after","tag-airport","tag-allegedly","tag-as","tag-been","tag-bust","tag-charged","tag-customs","tag-disguised","tag-drug","tag-found","tag-have","tag-meth","tag-methamphetamine","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-officers","tag-seized","tag-tea","tag-wellington","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458351","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=458351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}