Two men have been jailed after making 2.3kg of methamphetamine - worth up to $3.5 million - in a rented Whangamata bach.
Marrick Maxwell Davis, 29 and his Matamata associate Tuputaingakawa Mark, 25, appeared for sentencing in the Tauranga District Court via a video link from Auckland yesterday after pleading guilty to charges of possessing methamphetamine for supply earlier this year.
Judge Paul Mabey QC sentenced Davis to eight years' jail and Mark to seven years and four months.
According to court documents, on February 23 last year Davis and Mark used fake names - Shannon and Poto - to book a house on Tirohanga Dr in Whangamata through the Bachcare holiday home rental website.
A week later, on March 1, they turned up to the address and made a batch of the Class A drug by pouring acetone over what was described as a "solid compound".