{"id":50139,"date":"2025-09-20T12:15:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T12:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=50139"},"modified":"2025-09-20T12:15:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T12:15:37","slug":"south-africa-police-uncover-20m-crystal-meth-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=50139","title":{"rendered":"South Africa police uncover $20m crystal meth lab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">South African police say they have dismantled a crystal methamphetamine laboratory, with drugs worth $20m (\u00a315m), discovered on a farm in the east of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Five people &#8220;from a North American country&#8221; have been arrested, while two others &#8220;believed to be from West African countries&#8221; fled the scene, a statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police photographs show industrial manufacturing equipment along with weighing scales and lunch boxes filled with the illegal drug.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a 2022 Global State of Harm Reduction report, South Africa was described as one of the largest crystal meth consumer markets in the world. Its geography and &#8220;porous borders&#8221; make it an ideal transit point for illicit drugs, the UN says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: South African police say they have dismantled a crystal methamphetamine laboratory, with drugs worth $20m (\u00a315m), discovered on a farm in the east of the country. Five people &#8220;from a North American country&#8221; have been arrested, while two others &#8220;believed to be from West African countries&#8221; fled the scene, a statement said. Police photographs show industrial manufacturing equipment along with weighing scales and lunch boxes filled with the illegal drug. In a 2022 Global State of Harm Reduction report, South Africa was described as one of the largest crystal meth consumer markets in the world. Its geography and &#8220;porous&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50141,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50139\/revisions\/50141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}