{"id":122697,"date":"2025-11-07T09:43:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T09:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/122697\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T09:43:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T09:43:20","slug":"auckland-street-evacuated-after-police-find-what-they-thought-was-small-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/122697\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland street evacuated after police find what they thought was small bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4KAEL2T_RNZD0313_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"RNZ\/Reece Baker\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nA 20-year-old man was arrested.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ REECE BAKER\n<\/p>\n<p>Police in Auckland evacuated a street in Takapuna on Thursday after discovering what appeared to be a small bomb among a raft of weapons and drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Williams, Waitemat\u0101 CIB, says officers went to Karaka Street to make an arrest, as part of an investigation into threatening behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>He says they found &#8220;what appeared to be a small IED&#8221; and evacuated nearby residents as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p>They also found an antique pistol, BB gun, Class B controlled drug ketamine, scales, drug paraphernalia, a hunting knife, three other knives and a set of knuckle dusters.<\/p>\n<p>A 20-year-old man faces multiple charges and is due to appear in North Shore District Court on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Police have opposed the man&#8217;s bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 20-year-old man was arrested. Photo: RNZ \/ REECE BAKER Police in Auckland evacuated a street in Takapuna&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-122697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}