A 70-year-old man and 50-year-old woman are facing drug charges after being caught at the Picton ferry terminal allegedly carrying meth intended for distribution. <\/p>\n
The man disembarked from the ferry and was found with one ounce of methamphetamine, estimated to be worth between $5000 and $7000, on October 1. <\/p>\n
The 70-year-old was facing 13 charges related to the supply of methamphetamine and cannabis.<\/p>\n
A 50-year-old woman, described by police as an “associate”, was charged with supplying methamphetamine.<\/p>\n
“We believe these drugs were intended for distribution in the Marlborough region,” Detective Sergeant Ben Smith said. <\/p>\n
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Both offenders were due to appear in the Blenheim District Court on November 24. <\/p>\n
A search was carried out by police yesterday, and further arrests were being considered. <\/p>\n
Smith urged the public to help police with its probe. <\/p>\n
“We welcome information from anyone who has concerns about methamphetamine production or distribution in their community,” he said. <\/p>\n
Anyone with information was asked to report it online, by calling 105, or 111 if it was happening now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 70-year-old man and 50-year-old woman are facing drug charges after being caught at the Picton ferry terminal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,16256,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-57130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-crime-and-justice","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-marlborough","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57130","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=57130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}