Police are investigating after two people were found dead at separate houses on the same property within 12 hours of each other in the western Bay of Plenty.<\/p>\n
Officers were first called at around 3pm on New Year’s Day to reports a woman had died at an address on Old Coach Rd in Pukehina.<\/p>\n
A 50-year-old man was arrested later that afternoon and charged with assault on a person in a family relationship. He was due to appear in Tauranga District Court today.<\/p>\n
Early this morning, around 2.10am, police were alerted to a second death at the same property. <\/p>\n
Detective Senior Sergeant Paul Wilson said a man was found dead in another house on the site. <\/p>\n
“At this stage, his death is being treated as unexplained.”<\/p>\n
Scene examinations would take place throughout the day to determine what occurred, he said, adding police were not ruling out further arrests or charges.<\/p>\n
Two post-mortem examinations would take place in due course.<\/p>\n
Wilson said detectives are appealing for information from anyone who visited the Old Coach Road address between 7pm on December 31, and 3am on January 2.<\/p>\n
Pukehina is located southeast of Maketu in the Western Bay of Plenty District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating after two people were found dead at separate houses on the same property within 12…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,43,1756,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-212276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-tauranga-bay-of-plenty","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212276","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=212276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}