New Zealand police terminated Operation Peruvian with four search warrants against a large-scale cannabis cultivation network in Northland, seizing and destroying six and a half thousand cannabis plants with an estimated street value of more than NZ$10 million.[1][2] Peruvian ran under the umbrella of Operation Bush, a months-long inquiry by the money-laundering team and the Auckland asset recovery unit into commercial cultivation, supply and money laundering across Northland, Waitematā, Auckland City, Counties Manukau and Waikato.[1][2] At one Counties Manukau property searched in the second phase of Operation Bush, police found more than another 6,500 plants growing in two commercial glasshouses and five portable grow tents.[1][2] Six people aged 37 to 54 arrested in the Peruvian warrants appeared in the Kaikohe District Court.[1][2] Across both operations 34 people were arrested facing more than 100 charges, police restrained around $17 million in assets, and officers said the investigation was continuing.[1][2]