{"id":5134,"date":"2023-06-01T14:32:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T02:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=5134"},"modified":"2023-06-01T14:33:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T02:33:03","slug":"manslaughter-charge-laid-over-death-of-man-who-unknowingly-drank-meth-concealed-in-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=5134","title":{"rendered":"Manslaughter charge laid over death of man who unknowingly drank meth concealed in beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"article__header c-story-header\">\n<h1 class=\"c-story-header__headline\">Manslaughter charge laid over death of man who unknowingly drank meth concealed in beer<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article__body\">\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rnz-ressh.cloudinary.com\/image\/upload\/s--IJ9juOMH--\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/v1644508115\/4M2WHME_copyright_image_277088\" alt=\"No caption\" width=\"1050\" height=\"656\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">Police say a 40-year-old man has been arrested and charged with manslaughter in relation to the death of a 21-year-old in March.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0RNZ \/ Cole Eastham-Farrelly<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A man has been arrested and charged with manslaughter in relation to the death of a 21-year-old who unknowingly drank from a beer can containing liquid methamphetamine.<\/p>\n<p>Aiden Sagala died in Auckland Hospital in March after drinking from a beer can that he did not know contained high purity liquid methamphetamine.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Sagala&#8217;s tragic death had sparked a wider investigation &#8211; Operation Lavender &#8211; into an alleged methamphetamine importation operation.<\/p>\n<p>That investigation had already seen numerous serious drugs charges laid and a large quantity of methamphetamine and other drugs recovered from a Manukau address, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police estimated the value of the drug seizure to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Inspector Glenn Baldwin of Auckland City CIB said further pathology and toxicology testing had now been completed and police today arrested a 40-year-old man and charged him with manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p>The man, who was already before the court as part of Operation Lavender, was expected to appear in the Auckland District Court later today.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Sagala&#8217;s family had been informed of the development and were being supported.<\/p>\n<p>Enquiries into the wider importation investigation were ongoing, Baldwin said, and police could not rule out further charges being laid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>SOURCE RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manslaughter charge laid over death of man who unknowingly drank meth concealed in beer Police say a 40-year-old man has been arrested and charged with manslaughter in relation to the death of a 21-year-old in March.\u00a0Photo:\u00a0RNZ \/ Cole Eastham-Farrelly A man has been arrested and charged with manslaughter in relation to the death of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5136,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134\/revisions\/5136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}