{"id":197857,"date":"2025-12-23T10:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T10:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/197857\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T10:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T10:06:12","slug":"four-arrested-firearms-seized-in-gisborne-homicide-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/197857\/","title":{"rendered":"Four arrested, firearms seized in Gisborne homicide probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four people have been arrested and firearms seized as part of an ongoing homicide investigation in Gisborne.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Maangi, 36, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/09\/29\/person-critically-injured-in-gisborne-serious-incident\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">was found critically injured<\/a> on the front lawn of a property between Lytton Rd and Riperata St at around 4am on September 29 after he was shot. He died in hospital shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>Acting Detective Senior Sergeant John Love said search warrants were carried out at multiple Gisborne addresses on earlier this month, including a section of the Taruheru River being searched by the police dive squad.<\/p>\n<p>Four people aged between 25 and 37 were arrested. <\/p>\n<p>Police said those arrested are expected to appear in Gisborne District Court in January and were facing charges of aggravated robbery, and firearm and drug related matters.<\/p>\n<p>Several items were recovered during the searches including firearms, which have been sent for forensic analysis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nobody deserves this, and the investigation team remains committed to getting justice for Mr Maangi and his family,&#8221; Love said.<\/p>\n<p>Further charges were not ruled out as police continued their inquiries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four people have been arrested and firearms seized as part of an ongoing homicide investigation in Gisborne. Bill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,12506,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-197857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-gisborne","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197857","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=197857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}