{"id":222491,"date":"2026-01-08T02:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T02:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/222491\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T02:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T02:34:07","slug":"auckland-police-hunt-lawrence-schwalger-warrant-issued-for-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/222491\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland police hunt Lawrence Schwalger, warrant issued for arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Police say the 50-year-old is thought to be in the wider Auckland area.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Call 111 immediately\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Members of the public who may see him out and about are urged not to approach him.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Lawrence Schwalger, 50, is wanted by police. Photo \/ NZ Police\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Lawrence Schwalger, 50, is wanted by police. Photo \/ NZ Police<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cCall 111 immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Can you help? Anyone with information can call 111, 105 or anonymously via CrimeStoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say the 50-year-old is thought to be in the wider Auckland area. \u2018Call 111 immediately\u2019 Members of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8212,28654,14466,51,1866,2082,305,5838,16718,10937,32655,15415,18087,23997,5978,111,43,139,69,675,133489,1361,2846,1876],"class_list":["post-222491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-anyone","tag-appealing","tag-arrest","tag-auckland","tag-find","tag-for","tag-have","tag-help","tag-him","tag-hunt","tag-hunting","tag-information","tag-issued","tag-lawrence","tag-might","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-schwalger","tag-that","tag-them","tag-warrant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222491","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=222491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}