{"id":18385,"date":"2024-11-22T21:23:54","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T21:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=18385"},"modified":"2024-11-22T21:23:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T21:23:54","slug":"dutch-police-find-gnome-made-of-mdma-during-drug-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=18385","title":{"rendered":"Dutch police find gnome made of MDMA during drug bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Officers in the southern Netherlands have found a garden gnome weighing nearly 2kg (4lb) and made of the drug MDMA.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">&#8220;Drugs appear in many shapes and sizes, but every now and then we come across special things,&#8221; Dongemond Police said in a translated social media post.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The gnome was found among suspected narcotics during a large drug search. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">&#8220;In itself a strange place to keep your garden gnome,&#8221; the force said. &#8220;That&#8217;s why we decided to test [it] for narcotics&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">&#8220;The gnome himself was visibly startled,&#8221; police said, referring to the gnome having its hands covering its mouth.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">It is not known which area the gnome was recovered in, but the Dongemond Police covers the municipalities of Oosterhout, Geertruidenberg, Drimmelen and Altena.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">MDMA &#8211; which is an illegal substance in the Netherlands &#8211; is a synthetic party drug also known as ecstasy.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">As of 2019, the Netherlands was<!-- --><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-50821542\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\"> among the world&#8217;s leading<!-- --><\/a> <!-- --><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-50821542\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\">producers of MDMA<!-- --><\/a>. <!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border-top: 2px solid #ccc; margin-top: 20px;\">\n<p><em>Source: <\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cy9jr3y8gv5o\">www.bbc.com\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officers in the southern Netherlands have found a garden gnome weighing nearly 2kg (4lb) and made of the drug MDMA. &#8220;Drugs appear in many shapes and sizes, but every now and then we come across special things,&#8221; Dongemond Police said in a translated social media post. The gnome was found among suspected narcotics during a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}