{"id":504583,"date":"2026-07-01T13:59:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/504583\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T13:59:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:59:20","slug":"darfield-arrest-police-find-large-stash-of-drugs-after-driver-flees-on-wrong-side-of-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/504583\/","title":{"rendered":"Darfield arrest: Police find large stash of drugs after driver flees on wrong side of road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Irvine said police followed at a distance and located the alleged offender\u2019s home address, where they found skid marks over the gravel driveway and the vehicle parked out back \u2013 with the engine and tyres still hot.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Some of the items police seized from a property in Darfield. Photo \/ NZ Police\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Some of the items police seized from a property in Darfield. Photo \/ NZ Police<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cA search of the vehicle uncovered the large amount of drugs, before more specialist staff and a police dog unit assisted of a further search of the property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAs a result, police seized three cannabis plants, with LSD, 500g of cocaine, steroids, a box of .22 and shotgun ammunition and a high-powered taser.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">A 40-year-old man was arrested and was due to appear in the Christchurch District Court today facing 12 charges, including: <\/p>\n<p>Reckless drivingUnlawfully possessing ammunitionPossessing for supply of cannabis plantCultivating cannabisPossessing for supply of LSDPossessing for supply of cocaineUnlawfully possessing a restricted weaponBreaches of the Medicines Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irvine said police followed at a distance and located the alleged offender\u2019s home address, where they found skid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,20934,24744,14466,11924,1558,8126,50514,19552,1757,1866,19553,1874,42,1345,3242,43,1118,90,675,1314,3175,6102,80801,40,38,41,39,14191,25152],"class_list":["post-504583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-ammunition","tag-amount","tag-arrest","tag-arrested","tag-been","tag-canterbury","tag-darfield","tag-driver","tag-drugs","tag-find","tag-flees","tag-found","tag-headlines","tag-home","tag-large","tag-news","tag-of","tag-on","tag-police","tag-road","tag-rural","tag-side","tag-stash","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-weapons","tag-wrong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504583","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=504583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}