{"id":579981,"date":"2026-08-25T15:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T15:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/579981\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T15:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T15:34:09","slug":"hawkes-bay-drug-arrests-couple-charged-as-police-seize-700000-in-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/579981\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawke\u2019s Bay drug arrests: Couple charged as police seize $700,000 in assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">Once forfeited, the proceeds could be directed to initiatives that reduce the harmful impacts of drug-related and organised crime, supporting efforts to create safer and more resilient communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">Last year, the Eastern District Police Organised Crime Unit commenced Operation Sleep, an investigation into the supply and distribution of controlled drugs by a couple in Hawke\u2019s Bay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">A 34-year-old man and 34-year-old woman, were charged with multiple counts of supplying drugs and possession for supply.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"A ute seized by police investigating drug sale and supply in Hawke's Bay.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>A ute seized by police investigating drug sale and supply in Hawke&#8217;s Bay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">Both were set to appear in Hastings District Court on September 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">The Police Asset Recovery Unit also obtained restraining orders for assets police claim belonged to the couple.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cBy targeting illicit benefits obtained by drug offending, the offenders are denied the success of their offending,\u201d Kennard said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Once forfeited, the proceeds could be directed to initiatives that reduce the harmful impacts of drug-related and organised&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[93169,74,11924,31746,806,19092,1561,6932,13239,8414,3401,1976,78,296,35199,130,111,43,139,69,384,675,1133,39728,12641,19862,131],"class_list":["post-579981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-93169","tag-after","tag-arrested","tag-arrests","tag-as","tag-assets","tag-bay","tag-cash","tag-charged","tag-couple","tag-drug","tag-hawkes","tag-in","tag-into","tag-investigations","tag-more","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-people","tag-police","tag-sale","tag-seize","tag-seized","tag-supply","tag-than"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579981","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=579981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}