{"id":469660,"date":"2026-06-10T05:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T05:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/469660\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T05:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T05:24:10","slug":"operation-phoenix-police-raids-underway-in-northland-and-auckland-amid-meth-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/469660\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Phoenix: Police raids underway in Northland and Auckland amid meth investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>10 Jun, 2026 04:35 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Police are currently executing search warrants in both Northland and Auckland as part of an ongoing methamphetamine operation investigation. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Search warrants are currently being executed across Northland and Auckland as police target an alleged methamphetamine manufacture and supply operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The police said today\u2019s activity forms part of an ongoing inquiry into the offending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The National Organised Crime Group has been leading the investigation, known as Operation Phoenix, with assistance<br \/>\n         from Northland Police.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">Though no further details can be given during the raids, police are holding a media stand-up tomorrow at the Whang\u0101rei Police Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 10 Jun, 2026 04:35 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2840,1554,534,95,51,682,186,170701,78,12898,184904,1868,13240,111,43,139,1067,69,17286,57694,675,37058,1870,19862,8225,58455,46730],"class_list":["post-469660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-across","tag-alleged","tag-amid","tag-and","tag-auckland","tag-being","tag-currently","tag-executed","tag-in","tag-investigation","tag-manufacture","tag-meth","tag-methamphetamine","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-northland","tag-nz","tag-operation","tag-phoenix","tag-police","tag-raids","tag-search","tag-supply","tag-target","tag-underway","tag-warrants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469660","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=469660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}