Drugs

A Briton who admitted arranging for 3kg of cocaine with a street value of almost $1 million to be delivered to his old schoolmates in Auckland has been sentenced to six and a-half years in prison.

A father and son have appeared in court accused of importing cocaine and P into New Zealand.

A father and son are due in court after police discovered 350 grams of cocaine and methamphetamine hidden in a Mount Maunganui apartment block storage unit plus a sizeable sum of cash.

An Indonesian court has sentenced a middle-aged British woman to death for smuggling cocaine worth more than $US2.5 million into the resort island of Bali.

While those veges in the garden will be bolting with the warm rain, so too will the cannabis crops of Northland drug growers.

More than $60,000 worth of MDMA has been seized and a 25-year-old Wellington woman charged after Customs intercepted a package with 330 grams of the drug.

A Vietnamese refugee caught running a million-dollar indoor cannabis operation, in which he stole $26,000 worth of electricity to heat and light the rental houses where he was growing the drug has been sentenced to seven years in prison.

Explosions were heard at a residential address in Katikati, Bay of Plenty, today as armed police executed a drugs warrant.

Two men are dead after going to extreme measures to manufacture drugs - their bodies were found in a P-lab in an abandoned mine shaft deep in the Coromandel bush.

The identity of the millionaire businessman facing designer drug charges remains secret in a case described by one judge as the "battleground for the legal high industry".