{"id":507482,"date":"2026-07-03T06:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T06:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/507482\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T06:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T06:46:08","slug":"traffic-stop-on-state-highway-5-leads-police-to-130g-meth-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/507482\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic stop on State Highway 5 leads police to 130g meth haul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"KGVqebHjEg\" style=\"display:none\">The vehicle was seized, and a subsequent search  uncovered more than $1000 in cash, several phones and about 130g of methamphetamine, Keenleyside said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KGVqebHjEg\" style=\"display:none\">Keenleyside thanked the members of the public who alerted police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"KGVqebHjEg\" style=\"display:none\">A 30-year-old man has been remanded on bail and is  to appear in the Rotorua District Court on July 9, charged with possession of utensils.  Further charges are being considered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The vehicle was seized, and a subsequent search uncovered more than $1000 in cash, several phones and about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[252993,74,30701,5504,71,29955,305,26755,22055,1868,13240,130,51720,111,43,139,69,90,193,675,12641,13672,1324,75000,131,61,3946,6845],"class_list":["post-507482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-130g","tag-after","tag-complaints","tag-following","tag-from","tag-haul","tag-have","tag-highway","tag-leads","tag-meth","tag-methamphetamine","tag-more","tag-motorists","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-other","tag-police","tag-seized","tag-state","tag-stop","tag-stopping","tag-than","tag-to","tag-traffic","tag-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507482","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=507482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}