{"id":84587,"date":"2026-09-01T03:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T03:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/84587\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T03:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T03:32:18","slug":"meth-found-hidden-in-a-mcmuffin-during-broome-traffic-stop-police-allege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/84587\/","title":{"rendered":"Meth found hidden in a McMuffin during Broome traffic stop, police allege"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police have released footage of the moment they allegedly found a ziplock bag of methylamphetamine hidden inside a McMuffin in the West Australian town of Broome.<\/p>\n

In the video, officers can be seen conducting a traffic stop at Cable Beach and can be seen rummaging through a fast-food bag containing items from numerous outlets before pulling out a breakfast sandwich from McDonald’s.<\/p>\n

Upon pulling the McMuffin apart officers found a small ziplock bags filled with white powder that they said was methylamphetamine.<\/p>\n

The man driving the vehicle was not known to police and was arrested on August 20.<\/p>\n

Detectives charged the 39-year-old Derby man with possession of a prohibited drug with intent to sell or supply.<\/p>\n

‘Awkward’ part of the job<\/p>\n

Detective Senior Sergeant Trisha Stjepic said people were becoming more creative in their efforts to hide illicit substances.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“[A] fast-food item is a first, but hiding drugs inside the vehicle we found a lot more common recently,” she said.<\/p>\n

“[People] are being more cautious and drugs aren’t being left out in the open.”<\/p>\n

Senior Sergeant Stjepic said thorough searches should be conducted during all traffic stops.<\/p>\n

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Senior Sergeant Trisha Stjepic says searching through people’s belongings is standard procedure. (Supplied: WA Police)<\/p>\n

She said people went to extensive lengths to conceal items, including someone who hid illicit drugs in a rubbish bag in the boot of the car.<\/p>\n

“When you’re conducting searches under the Misuse of Drugs Acts [sic], you obviously have to search the whole vehicle,” Senior Sergeant Stjepic said.<\/p>\n

“At times it can be awkward searching through people’s food, but unfortunately that’s part of the job.”\"A<\/p>\n

Broome police discovering what they allege is meth. (Supplied: WA Police)<\/p>\n

Crackdown on meth<\/p>\n

The McMuffin bust was one of two incidents involving fast food and illicit drugs in Broome in August.<\/p>\n

Police allegedly found cannabis, methylamphetamine and a knife in the possession of a 21-year-old man at a fast-food outlet on August 29.<\/p>\n

They allege he travelled 2,080 kilometres from Perth with the intent of selling and supplying prohibited drugs within the Broome area.<\/p>\n

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Detective Senior Sergeant Trisha Stjepic says the two incidents are unrelated.\u00a0 (ABC Kimberley: Ruby Littler)<\/p>\n

Senior Sergeant Stjepic alleged the suspect ran away from police, which led to his arrest.<\/p>\n

Both men are due to appear in court later this month over the unrelated incidents.<\/p>\n

Broome police have been actively focusing on the methylamphetamine trade over the past year.<\/p>\n

“We’ve got a strong focus on targeting those involved in the sale and supply of illicit drugs within the community,” Senior Sergeant Stjepic said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have released footage of the moment they allegedly found a ziplock bag of methylamphetamine hidden inside a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,21,138461,29576,138456,29838,138459,138455,138454,138458,138457,464,3746,138460],"class_list":["post-84587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-do-wa-police-need-a-warrant-to-search-you","tag-mcdonalds","tag-mcmuffin","tag-meth","tag-meth-mcmuffin","tag-meth-sandwich","tag-methamphetamines","tag-traffic-stop","tag-trisha-stjepic","tag-wa-news","tag-wa-police","tag-wa-police-search-powers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}