{"id":230800,"date":"2026-01-13T10:07:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T10:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/230800\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T10:07:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T10:07:16","slug":"sunlive-police-probe-deaths-of-two-at-pukehina-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/230800\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive &#8211; Police probe deaths of two at Pukehina property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police continue to investigate the deaths of two people at an address on Old Coach Road in Pukehina.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement today, police confirmed that the death of the woman was being treated as suspicious, and the death of the man as unexplained.<\/p>\n<p>At around 3pm on January 1, police were notified of a woman that had died at an address on Old Coach Road, Pukehina.<\/p>\n<p>At 2.10am on January 2, police were then made aware of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/bay-of-plenty-times\/news\/bay-of-plenty-deaths-police-investigate-two-bodies-found-at-same-property\/JC7MVC5SRJB5LCLSJEWIYPJCOY\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/bay-of-plenty-times\/news\/bay-of-plenty-deaths-police-investigate-two-bodies-found-at-same-property\/JC7MVC5SRJB5LCLSJEWIYPJCOY\/\">man who had been found dead<\/a> in another house on the same property.<\/p>\n<p>Stuff reported last week the two people who died were RSE workers from Vanuatu.<\/p>\n<p>A 50-year-old man was due to reappear in Tauranga District Court on January 30 on a charge of assaulting a person in a family relationship, Tauranga investigations manager Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Varnam said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice continue to be focused on investigating the events that led to the deaths of the two people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Varnam asked anyone with information about what happened to contact police through 105, either online or over the phone, and reference file number: 260101\/9901.<\/p>\n<p>Reports could also be made anonymously through Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police continue to investigate the deaths of two people at an address on Old Coach Road in Pukehina.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-230800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230800","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=230800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}