New Zealand Police target online drug sales
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The drug - along with the likes of meth, ecstasy, and Alpha PVP, which is also known as bath salts or flakka - were being found in mailed packages at the country's border.
Customs cargo operations manager Bruce Berry said people try to fly under the radar by going online to order small quantities from overseas.
"What we're seeing is a steady supply of smaller quantities of products in the domain. We're certainly seeing synthetic cannabinoids, we're seeing psychoactive substances, but we're also seeing the mimics there in the same space," he said.
"We realise that a lot of this is people using the anonymity of the web to try to import it for their own personal use."
He said it was part of an international trend.
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