{"id":233784,"date":"2026-01-15T01:49:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T01:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/233784\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T01:49:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T01:49:20","slug":"pair-charged-after-ak-47-style-firearm-found-in-auckland-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/233784\/","title":{"rendered":"Pair charged after AK-47-style firearm found in Auckland property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people have been charged after police found a loaded semi-automatic AK-47-style firearm in a room under a property in South Auckland.<\/p>\n<p>Around 5.40pm on Wednesday, police spotted a vehicle of interest on Puhinui Rd in Manukau.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle fled after noticing police but was not pursued.<\/p>\n<p>Inspector Mohammed Atiq said the Eagle helicopter found the vehicle on Redoubt Rd and police cordoned off the address. <\/p>\n<p>A police dog unit tracked a person to a room beneath the house, where a search uncovered a &#8220;fully loaded semi-automatic AK-47 style firearm in a cupboard as well as several parts of a shotgun&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Two people at the address was taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>A 27-year-old man and a 26-year-old woman were due to appear in the Manukau District Court today on multiple charges, including unlawful possession of a prohibited firearm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have been charged after police found a loaded semi-automatic AK-47-style firearm in a room under a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-233784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-crime-and-justice","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233784","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=233784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}