Updated 3.45PM: A man arrested in Katikati on Sunday after two years on the run from drugs charges has been sentenced for breaching his bail.

Steven Mehrtens was sentenced in Tauranga District Court today to two months in jail for cutting his electronic bracelet off two years ago and running.

Mehrtens was originally arrested and charged on May 18, 2010 as part of Operation Acacia – a police investigation into the manufacture and sale of methamphetamine.

He was originally remanded in custody but was subsequently granted electronically monitored bail.

In December 2010 Mehrtens removed his monitoring bracelet, absconded and later failed to appear for trial in December 2011.

He was convicted in absentia in the High Court in Auckland for conspiracy to deal methamphetamine, two charges of manufacturing methamphetamine, possession of methamphetamine for supply and two charges of selling methamphetamine.

Mehrtens' co-offender Scott Filer was also convicted and sentenced to 17 years and three months jail.

Mehrtens will now appear for sentence on those charges in the Auckland High Court on Wednesday.

A 51-year-old woman living on the Katikati property is charged with being an accessory. Police say she has been assisting Mehrtens to avoid arrest.

Mehrtens hideaway was discovered by the team working on the Jordan Voudaris murder inquiry in Paeroa.

Officer in charge of the inquiry Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Whitehead says at this stage Mehrtens has not been linked to the homicide.

The homicide investigation team established that Mehrtens was in Paeroa on the night Jordan Voudaris was murdered.

'Mehrtens became one of a significant number of persons being investigated to account for their activities on that night,” says Mike.

'The information gathered allowed the police to trace him to the address where he was located.”