{"id":177743,"date":"2025-12-10T19:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/177743\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T19:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:40:08","slug":"hamilton-amber-alert-missing-7-year-old-boy-found-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/177743\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton amber alert: Missing 7-year-old boy found &#8211; police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>10 Dec, 2025 04:23 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Police found the missing boy this morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A missing 7-year-old boy in Hamilton has been found safe and well, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police issued an amber alert for the schoolboy when he failed to return to his Anderson Rd home after leaving on foot to visit a friend down the road at 4pm yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The disappearance sparked a<br \/>\n         desperate overnight search, and continued early this morning when his distraught mum told the Herald her message to the public: \u201cPlease bring my baby back to me\u201d.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">She was waiting for an update from the police and was too upset to speak further.<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">That update came soon after 7am, when he was found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 10 Dec, 2025 04:23 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5835,41242,34368,1558,15117,1874,6288,42,6501,43,675,19098,5659,40,38,41,39,6436],"class_list":["post-177743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-7yearold","tag-alert","tag-amber","tag-been","tag-boy","tag-found","tag-hamilton","tag-headlines","tag-missing","tag-news","tag-police","tag-safe","tag-say","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-well"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177743","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=177743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}