Drugs

A Rotorua woman has been jailed for selling cannabis to undercover police -- just months after her daughter was jailed for the same crime.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Mfat) says it has been in contact with a heavily pregnant New Zealand woman and her partner being held in a Japanese jail accused of smuggling methamphetamine into the country.

A pregnant Auckland woman and her partner are among the rising number of New Zealanders caught smuggling drugs into other countries for "a bit of extra cash".

People sought in connection with a suspected P lab fire in west Auckland on Saturday may be in the country illegally, police say.

The Government has confirmed it is considering a drug court pilot where offenders can be sent to rehab instead of jail.

The arrest of five men, including four alleged members of a bikie gang, will crush an organised drug syndicate operating from a bikie clubhouse in Melbourne's west, police say.

A group of 10 Malaysians travelling as part of a tour group tried to smuggle about $10 million worth of methamphetamine in through Auckland International Airport in their shoes yesterday.

A California truck driver has been sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison for hauling nearly nine tonnes of marijuana smuggled through a tunnel between the US and Mexico.

A Wanganui man has been jailed for four years after arranging a fake drug deal which ended in the brutal beating and BB gun shooting of another man.

Cannabis bullets wrapped in tinfoil and stashed in a woman's bra yesterday set off an airport security checkpoint detector at Queenstown, police say.

Children have been found at Opotiki tinnie houses during police drugs raids.

Nine people have been arrested today on drug charges throughout the Wellington district. An operation targeting the manufacture, supply and use of methamphetamine involved 60 police staff from across the district.

Police recovered weapons and enough chemicals to produce a large amount of methamphetamine when they raided a rural Waikato property yesterday.

The man killed in an explosion of a suspected P-lab in the south Auckland suburb of Glenbrook has been named by police.

A house in the south Auckland suburb of Glenbrook is still cordoned off today after an explosion killed a man early last night.

Two "naive" drug dealers who thought they were selling tablets of ecstacy when in fact it was benzylpiperazine (BZP) were sentenced to four months' home detention when they appeared in the Alexandra District Court yesterday.

Police say 11 people are facing drug-related charges following Operation Linda, a drug bust in the midst of the cannabis growing season.

A woman who swallowed up to $600,000 worth of pure methamphetamine in an attempt to smuggle it into New Zealand has been arrested at Auckland airport.