An Iranian arrested at Auckland Airport was allegedly found with 1.4kg of concealed and swallowed in about 185 small latex "pellets".

He was a high-flying, successful inner-city lawyer - until he destroyed his privileged life with methamphetamine abuse.

Keisha Castle-Hughes is producing a film about a subject painfully close to her heart - NZ's 'epidemic' of P abuse.

Two Mongrel Mob leaders are being paid by the taxpayers to try to turn the country's gangs away from drugs and crime.

Second-generation Mongrel Mobster Layton Te Nahu is off the drug P and back with his family, thanks to a remarkable New Zealand story that involves the Prime Minister, the Salvation Army and a retired surgeon.

Organised crime is more than just guns and drugs with environmental and cyber crime also proving a lucrative business, OFCANZ says.

A sportsman who died after using methamphetamine and cannabis during a training session has had his identity concealed by the courts.

Police doing post-quake patrols today came across a man mixing up chemicals to make methamphetamine.

Police and customs seizures are driving up the price of P because criminals now face a greater risk of getting caught, says a drug expert.

A 70-year-old pharmacist jailed this week for his role in supplying gangs with pseudoephedrine still believes he was part of an undercover police operation.

A pharmacist has been jailed after supplying cold drugs he knew would be turned into P.

A man who spent three years infiltrating Auckland's crime networks has uncovered a drug trade on a staggering scale.

Police displayed weapons and drugs, including two "unusually large" rocks of crystal meth, from a bust on a Coromandel P lab.