Two men were arrested after Auckland police flagged a vehicle of interest that was later found to contain drugs, cash, weapons and ammunition.<\/p>\n
The 53-year-old driver was found to have outstanding fines of $26,000, and was put into the back of a police vehicle.<\/p>\n
During the initial search of the offender’s vehicle drug paraphernalia was spotted, leading authorities to deepen the check.<\/p>\n
Acting Shift Inspector Ian Scoulding said a variety of dangerous items were then recovered.<\/p>\n
“The officer unravelled more than initially thought, after locating $30,000 cash, a one-kilogram silver bar, a taser, a knife, a firearm, and ammunition,” he said. <\/p>\n
“Three ounces of methamphetamine, one ounce of cocaine, and one ounce of cannabis were also located.”<\/p>\n
The driver was charged with two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition, possession of an offensive weapon, and possession of methamphetamine, cocaine, cannabis plant, and ecstasy for supply.<\/p>\n
A 37-year-old was then taken into custody after he tried to talk with the arrested driver by opening the door to the police vehicle.<\/p>\n
He was charged with two counts of resisting police, interference with a motor vehicle and communicating with a prisoner.<\/p>\n
The 53-year-old was due to appear in Auckland District Court on Saturday, while the 37-year-old was set to attend on September 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men were arrested after Auckland police flagged a vehicle of interest that was later found to contain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591604,"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-591603","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\/591603","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=591603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}