{"id":643885,"date":"2026-10-28T15:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T15:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/643885\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T15:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T15:20:13","slug":"south-auckland-cocaine-haul-137kg-worth-an-estimated-40million-guns-found-in-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/643885\/","title":{"rendered":"South Auckland cocaine haul: 137kg worth an estimated $40million, guns found in facility"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An investigation is underway after the discovery of an estimated $40million concealment of cocaine in Auckland. Photo \/ NZ Police<\/p>\n

Police have launched an investigation after an estimated $40million worth of cocaine was found in South Auckland.<\/p>\n

Officers were called to a facility yesterday morning after staff discovered several suspicious bags in a container.<\/p>\n

The haul weighed 137kg and consisted of 137 individual bricks of the class A drug.<\/p>\n

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\n Inspector Karen Bright said a further search also uncovered two Glock pistols, ammunition magazines and around 200 rounds of ammunition.\n <\/p>\n

The shipment arrived from Netherlands via Balboa, Panama, she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[315674,315675,74,8831,51,20926,40147,11163,1874,7815,29955,305,42,78,12898,1743,43,675,1240,40,38,41,39,19985],"class_list":["post-643885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-137kg","tag-40million","tag-after","tag-an","tag-auckland","tag-cocaine","tag-estimated","tag-facility","tag-found","tag-guns","tag-haul","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-investigation","tag-launched","tag-news","tag-police","tag-south","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-worth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643885","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=643885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}