An enormous police operation across the lower North Island, involving over 100officers and 24 search warrants, has resulted in 11 people being charged with supplying methamphetamine and other drugs.
Police seized hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, firearms and ammunition, drugs, dozens of cars and motorcycles, a jet-ski and a boatshed as part of Operation Audi, an investigation into a Mongrel Mob Kartel chapter drug syndicate.
Police arrested eight men and three women aged between 18 and 53.
They face charges for money laundering, possession for supply and offering of Class A, B and C controlled drugs and unlawful possession of firearms.