Police have shut down a suspected methamphetamine manufacturing laboratory after executive a search warrant in Riverhead, north-west of Auckland.<\/p>\n
The discovery came after an operation targeting a group \u2013 with links to the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club \u2013 who were believed to be involved in methamphetamine manufacture.<\/p>\n
Police detective Senior Sergeant Josh Lautogo said the investigation led officers to a Ridge Rd address. Officers then executed a search warrant at 5.30am today.<\/p>\n
“A search of the property found sufficient equipment and chemicals to identify the site as a clandestine methamphetamine laboratory.<\/p>\n
“Items located included hydrochloric acid, flasks, a condenser, and caustic waste from a previous methamphetamine cook.”<\/p>\n
Two people at the property were taken into custody without incident.<\/p>\n
Lautogo said investigators would continue to target those manufacturing illegal drugs.<\/p>\n
“This result reflects police’s ongoing focus on disrupting organised crime groups involved in the manufacture and supply of illicit drugs.”<\/p>\n
A 55-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman are set to appear in Wait\u0101kere District Court tomorrow, charged with manufacturing methamphetamine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have shut down a suspected methamphetamine manufacturing laboratory after executive a search warrant in Riverhead, north-west of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-505947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-auckland","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505947","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=505947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}