Pair to face P charges after dawn raids

A man and woman have been charged with methamphetamine-related offences after two police dawn raids in West Auckland yesterday.

The simultaneous search warrants were related and police say they will not be targeting any other addresses.

A house on Kilgour Tce in rural Huia, Waitakere City, was stormed by armed offenders squad members about 6am and a man was taken into police custody, charged with supplying methamphetamine.

Detective Sergeant Tony McKenzie of Auckland metro crime and operations support, based in Otahuhu, said it took police at least six hours to search the property as they had to navigate an extensive bush area.

At the other house, about 14km northeast on Manuka Rd in Waima, where the arrested man lived, AOS members also arrived about 6am and spent about two hours searching the property. A woman at the house was arrested and charged with possession of methamphetamine.

Other occupants had been spoken to but would not be charged, Mr McKenzie said.

Neither of the houses was being used as a clandestine laboratory, he said.

A neighbour of the Waima address - which yesterday had a Mercedes and boat parked outside - said he had seen at least three young women at the address.

They had lived there for only about two months, the man said. "We always speculated what they were doing as this is really more of a family or retiree neighbourhood."