{"id":629257,"date":"2026-10-13T11:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T11:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/629257\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T11:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T11:14:10","slug":"patched-gang-member-among-three-arrested-after-guns-drugs-seized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/629257\/","title":{"rendered":"Patched gang member among three arrested after guns, drugs seized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A patched gang member and a youth are among three people arrested after $10,000 worth of suspected gamma-Butyrolactone (GBL) and four firearms were seized in Wellington last week.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they were called to a Cannons Creek address in eastern Porirua on October 9 after a firearm was discharged. No one was injured in the incident. <\/p>\n<p>Senior Sergeant Jen Blackwood said frontline, investigations, and specialist police staff worked together to arrest a patched gang member and two associates across two addresses. <\/p>\n<p>During a search of the properties, police seized four firearms, ammunition, suspected ketamine, GBL, and about 48 drug-laced vapes.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/in-a-search-of-the-locations-four-firearms-suspected-ketamin-H2ABGVX6QJHZPLXF6RGQC4R33Q.png\" alt=\"In a search of the locations, four firearms, suspected Ketamine, GBL, around 48 drug-laced vapes, and ammunition were seized, police said.\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">In a search of the locations, four firearms, suspected Ketamine, GBL, around 48 drug-laced vapes, and ammunition were seized, police said. (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>GBL \u2013 commonly known as fantasy or liquid ecstasy \u2013 is a depressant which can make users feel nauseous, groggy, confused and cause memory lapses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This operation has brought together our resources effectively to remove dangerous weapons and harmful drugs from our community,&#8221; Blackwood said.<\/p>\n<p>Two men and a youth had been charged with &#8220;various offences&#8221; and were set to appear in the Porirua District Court at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A patched gang member and a youth are among three people arrested after $10,000 worth of suspected gamma-Butyrolactone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,111,43,139,69,52],"class_list":["post-629257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629257","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=629257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}