{"id":474754,"date":"2026-06-13T03:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/474754\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T03:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:13:09","slug":"woman-arrested-over-importation-and-supply-of-fantasy-in-nelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/474754\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested over importation and supply of fantasy in Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman in the Nelson area has been arrested and charged with importing and supplying GBL, otherwise known as fantasy. <\/p>\n<p>Detective Sergeant Glen Lindup said a raid was carried out by police and Customs at a Redwood Valley property on Saturday as part of an investigation into the importation and supply of the class B drug.<\/p>\n<p>A 36-year-old woman was arrested and charged with importing GBL, possessing GBL for supply, and possessing methamphetamine.<\/p>\n<p>She was due to appear in Nelson District Court on June 15.<\/p>\n<p>Lindup said police and Customs had \u201cno tolerance\u201d for the importation and supply of illicit drugs and would continue working to investigate drug offending in the Nelson area. <\/p>\n<p>GBL \u2013 commonly known as fantasy or liquid ecstasy \u2013 is a depressant which can make users feel nauseous, groggy, confused and cause memory lapses.<\/p>\n<p>It was the drug involved in one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/08\/28\/nzs-largest-haul-of-fantasy-seized-at-the-border-four-arrested\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New Zealand&#8217;s largest ever drug seizures,<\/a> after 1950 litres was uncovered by a joint police and Customs investigation in August last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman in the Nelson area has been arrested and charged with importing and supplying GBL, otherwise known&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[67,91,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-474754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-nelson","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474754","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=474754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}