{"id":60758,"date":"2026-09-14T16:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T16:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/couple-charged-over-sydney-ketamine-raid-face-new-gang-charges\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T16:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T16:42:18","slug":"couple-charged-over-sydney-ketamine-raid-face-new-gang-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/couple-charged-over-sydney-ketamine-raid-face-new-gang-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple charged over Sydney ketamine raid face new gang charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police said mobile phones, 2,000 Australian dollars (\u00a31,060) in cash, and documents described by officers as drug ledgers were also seized at the hotel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Detectives had earlier found 2kg of ketamine at a short-term stay unit in Artarmon on Sydney&#8217;s Lower North Shore, along with scales, gloves and other paraphernalia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police have claimed the couple travelled to Australia &#8220;for the sole purpose of taking part in the distribution and supply of large commercial quantities of prohibited drugs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Foreign Office spokesperson previously said: &#8220;We are supporting two British nationals detained in Australia and are in contact with the local authorities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c2l8x2ww1z7o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police said mobile phones, 2,000 Australian dollars (\u00a31,060) in cash, and documents described by officers as drug ledgers were also seized at the hotel. Detectives had earlier found 2kg of ketamine at a short-term stay unit in Artarmon on Sydney&#8217;s Lower North Shore, along with scales, gloves and other paraphernalia. Police have claimed the couple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[607,5198,4581,157,5989,10645,5975,1614],"class_list":["post-60758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-charged","tag-charges","tag-couple","tag-face","tag-gang","tag-ketamine","tag-raid","tag-sydney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60760,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60758\/revisions\/60760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}