{"id":607667,"date":"2026-09-22T00:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T00:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/607667\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T00:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T00:52:12","slug":"man-charged-after-police-find-large-scale-cannabis-operation-in-remuera-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/607667\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after police find large-scale cannabis operation in Remuera, Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">Police allege five rooms in the home were being used for the operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">After seeing police, the occupant allegedly fled through a rear window. <\/p>\n<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">A man was observed by the police Eagle helicopter running through nearby Newmarket Park and was found by a police dog unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">A 41-year-old man has been charged with cultivating cannabis and will appear in Auckland District Court today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">Burrow encouraged anybody with information on drug-related offending to come forward. <\/p>\n<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe community is vital in locating these operations, and we ask anyone who sees unusual activity or identifies aromas of cannabis, to please let us know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">Bassett Rd was the scene of infamous machine gun murders in Remuera in 1963, when two men were killed with a .45-calibre machine gun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">It was the first time such a weapon, famously favoured by legendary gangster Al Capone, had been used in a crime in New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police allege five rooms in the home were being used for the operation. After seeing police, the occupant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,51,9767,17285,13239,1866,1874,305,42,78,13739,5158,43,17286,675,23497,15267,17294,40,38,41,39,23498],"class_list":["post-607667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-auckland","tag-burglary","tag-cannabis","tag-charged","tag-find","tag-found","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-largescale","tag-man","tag-news","tag-operation","tag-police","tag-remuera","tag-reported","tag-suburb","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-upmarket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607667","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=607667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}