{"id":533938,"date":"2026-04-16T10:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T10:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/533938\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T10:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T10:46:14","slug":"m62-van-stop-check-leads-police-to-large-mdma-drug-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/533938\/","title":{"rendered":"M62 van stop-check leads police to large MDMA drug haul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police who pulled a van over for a stop-check on a motorway found a large stash of suspected MDMA pills and powder. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The van was stopped on the M62 at Junction 7, near Rainhill, at about 19:20 BST on Tuesday to &#8220;check documentation&#8221;, Merseyside Police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The force said thousands of pills and &#8220;multiple kilos&#8221; of powder were seized and would now be forensically examined. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 41-year-old man, from Crosby on Merseyside, has been arrested on suspicion of possessing a Class A drug with intent to supply and driving while disqualified. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police who pulled a van over for a stop-check on a motorway found a large stash of suspected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-533938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}