A forbidden driver has added serious drugs offences to his list of woes after a traffic stop in Whang¨¡rei this morning.
Frontline staff patrolling through Whang¨¡rei stopped a vehicle travelling along Memorial Drive before 1.30am.
Whang¨¡rei Area Commander, Inspector Maria Nordstrom says it was quickly established the 19-year-old was a forbidden driver.
¡°The teenager was arrested on the roadside, and in the process of searching the man he was found to be carrying illicit drugs.
¡°A further search was invoked on a shoulder bag he was wearing across his body.¡±
Inside, Police located more than 21 grams of MDMA and 491 LSD tablets.
Inspector Nordstrom says a further search inside the vehicle also located additional MDMA.
Around $150 in cash was also seized.
The 19-year-old will appear in the Whang¨¡rei District Court today on drugs offences including possession for supply of MDMA and possession of MDMA.
He will also face other driving offences.
¡°Possession for supply is a serious offence and carries with it a maximum penalty of 14 years imprisonment,¡± Inspector Nordstrom says.
¡°It¡¯s another great outcome from our team working overnight keeping harmful substances out of communities.¡±
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Jarred Williamson/51½ÖÉä