{"id":66207,"date":"2024-08-14T12:17:44","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T03:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/14\/auckland-city-mission-new-zealand-meth-lollies-rinda-pineapple"},"modified":"2024-08-14T12:17:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T03:17:44","slug":"new-zealand-charity-unknowingly-gives-out-sweets-with-lethal-levels-of-meth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66207","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand charity unknowingly gives out sweets with lethal levels of meth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up to 400 people received parcels that could contain the contaminated lolly as police open a criminal investigation<\/p>\n<p>A charity working with homeless people in Auckland, New Zealand unknowingly distributed sweets filled with a potentially lethal dose of methamphetamine in its food parcels, after the items were donated by a member of the public.<\/p>\n<p>Auckland City Mission told reporters on Wednesday that staff had started to contact up to 400 people to track down parcels that could contain the sweets \u2013 which were solid blocks of methamphetamine enclosed in lolly wrappers. New Zealand\u2019s police have opened a criminal investigation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/14\/auckland-city-mission-new-zealand-meth-lollies-rinda-pineapple\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up to 400 people received parcels that could contain the contaminated lolly as police open a criminal investigationA charity working with homeless people in Auckland, New Zealand unknowingly distributed sweets filled with a potentially lethal dose of m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,372,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-drugs","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66208,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66207\/revisions\/66208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}