{"id":209313,"date":"2025-12-31T02:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T02:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/209313\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T02:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T02:48:09","slug":"far-north-police-find-firearm-meth-and-offensive-weapon-in-stolen-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/209313\/","title":{"rendered":"Far North police find firearm, meth and offensive weapon in stolen car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/7bad8fdc-d7e6-4ae8-9ef1-306477bc2852.png\" alt=\"Jenny Ling\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/northern-advocate\/author\/jenny-ling\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Jenny Ling<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Multimedia Journalist\u00b7Northern Advocate\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>31 Dec, 2025 12:53 AMQuick 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\">A 24-year-old man was arrested on firearms charges during a routine traffic stop in the Far North.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A routine traffic stop in the Far North has led police to locating a firearm, ammunition, methamphetamine, another \u201coffensive weapon\u201d and drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police clocked a vehicle exceeding the 50km\/h speed limit on SH11, Kawakawa, on Tuesday about 10.10pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The vehicle was stopped by officers, who found it had been<br \/>\n         reported stolen the week before.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">The driver told police a firearm was in the vehicle, which resulted in officers conducting a warrantless search.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">During the search, officers located and seized the firearm, ammunition, another offensive weapon, as well as methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jenny Ling Multimedia Journalist\u00b7Northern Advocate\u00b7 31 Dec, 2025 12:53 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20934,95,9526,3944,3401,528,1866,15226,78,116467,1868,13240,111,43,139,529,69,46611,127482,675,2838,4736,1324,3946,16963],"class_list":["post-209313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-ammunition","tag-and","tag-another","tag-car","tag-drug","tag-far","tag-find","tag-firearm","tag-in","tag-locating","tag-meth","tag-methamphetamine","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-offensive","tag-paraphernalia","tag-police","tag-routine","tag-stolen","tag-stop","tag-traffic","tag-weapon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209313","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=209313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}