{"id":69360,"date":"2025-10-10T05:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/69360\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T05:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:53:09","slug":"half-a-tonne-of-cannabis-seized-in-raids-across-aucklands-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/69360\/","title":{"rendered":"Half a tonne of cannabis seized in raids across Auckland&#8217;s west"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">More than half a tonne of cannabis was seized by police in Auckland yesterday, following a series of raids across the city&#8217;s inner west. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">A man was also arrested on a raft of charges. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Detective Senior Sergeant Anthony Darvill said the searches were part of a police effort to crack down on criminals profiting from the sale of drugs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">\u201cDuring the searches of the properties, significant commercial cannabis grow set-ups were located,&#8221; Darvill said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">More than 500kg of cannabis was seized, as well as a &#8220;significant amount&#8221; of cash, MDMA, and ketamine. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/some-of-the-cannabis-seized-by-police-UO3MVKSFRFHJ5AJP7VZB5G2RVU.png\" alt=\"Some of the cannabis seized by police. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Some of the cannabis seized by police.  (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Cultivation of cannabis at this level is organised crime, and the action taken by police will impact those facilitating this activity and lessen the residual harm being caused,&#8221; Darvill said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;We\u2019re particularly pleased to remove the MDMA and ketamine from circulation, given the significant risk that it creates in the community\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">A 26-year-old man was due to appear in the Auckland District Court on October 15, facing cultivation of cannabis charges. Darvill said further charges were likely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than half a tonne of cannabis was seized by police in Auckland yesterday, following a series of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-69360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-crime-and-justice","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69360","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=69360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}