5 Mar 2025

Four men due to be sentenced after Canterbury drug operation

3:50 pm on 5 March 2025
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Police netted drugs with a combined value of over $38,000 after executing a series of search warrants in Canterbury last year. Photo: RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly

Four men are set to be sentenced in Christchurch District Court after a police drug operation in Selwyn.

Police said they executed multiple search warrants across the region while targeting a drug operation that ran from June until December last year.

The warrants netted a variety of drugs including cannabis, methamphetamine and cocaine with a combined street value of over $38,000 and police said they also seized more than $22,000 in cash.

Thirteen people were arrested for a variety of drug dealing and cultivation-related offences, they said.

Two men aged 28 and 29 will be sentenced on 7 March, a 63-year-old man will be sentenced on 11 March and a 33-year-old man is due for sentencing on 11 April.

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