{"id":485366,"date":"2026-06-19T11:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T11:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/485366\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T11:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T11:59:14","slug":"auckland-police-target-organised-crime-groups-in-major-cannabis-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/485366\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland police target organised crime groups in major cannabis bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>19 Jun, 2026 04:06 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 seized about 486 cannabis plants in Auckland. Photo \/ NZ Police<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police have seized hundreds of cannabis plants after an operation targeting organised crime groups in Auckland. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Acting Senior Sergeant Corey Foster, of Auckland City West Police, said officers executed four search warrants on Tuesday at properties in Hillsborough, New Windsor, Mt Roskill and Mt Albert as part of \u201cOperation<br \/>\n         Green\u201d to target criminal activity in the area.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAs a result, police located and dismantled several sophisticated indoor cultivation setups, seizing approximately 486 cannabis plants in varying sizes, along with associated equipment,\u201d Foster said.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Police searched four properties across Auckland as part of &quot;Operation Green&quot;. Photo \/ NZ Police\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Police searched four properties across Auckland as part of &#8220;Operation Green&#8221;. Photo \/ NZ Police<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cBy locating and seizing these cannabis plants, we have prevented them receiving payment that would have gone to fund a range of organised criminal activity in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 19 Jun, 2026 04:06 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,51,29950,17285,6147,28450,305,24176,78,661,111,43,139,69,17286,31425,5301,675,12641,8225,17902],"class_list":["post-485366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-auckland","tag-bust","tag-cannabis","tag-crime","tag-groups","tag-have","tag-hundreds","tag-in","tag-major","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-operation","tag-organised","tag-plants","tag-police","tag-seized","tag-target","tag-targeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485366","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=485366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}