Two further arrests have been made in relation to a Queenstown drug operation that police say involved class A drugs with an estimated street value of $100,000.
Richard Templeton (32) and Tuahine Taylor (33) appeared in the Invercargill District Court yesterday, charged jointly with six counts of possessing methamphetamine for supply and one representative charge of selling the class A drug.
They were arrested yesterday by Southern District police, following the five-month police operation "Operation Moses".
A 30-year-old Queenstown woman, who was arrested in April, was also further charged with six counts of possessing methamphetamine for supply.
She was granted interim name suppression when she first appeared in court.
Detective Senior Sergeant Malcolm Inglis said police were still seeking a Queenstown man in relation to the operation.
In April, four men were arrested in Queenstown and one in Auckland, after police from both centres spent five months targeting a methamphetamine supply chain based in Queenstown and Invercargill. The drugs had been sourced from Auckland.
The men, who face drugs charges are aged from 31 to 34.
Police seized meth, ecstasy, cannabis and firearms when search warrants were executed in Queenstown as the result of the operation, which involved local police and the Dunedin-based Southern District Organised Crime Group. A drugs lab was also discovered in Auckland.
Police believe more than 100g of the drug, with an estimated street value of $100,000, had been distributed through the supply chain.
Twenty Invercargill and Queenstown police were involved in the operation.
