{"id":263416,"date":"2026-02-02T04:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T04:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/263416\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T04:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T04:15:08","slug":"pair-wanted-over-two-hamilton-incidents-one-victim-critically-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/263416\/","title":{"rendered":"Pair wanted over two Hamilton incidents \u2013 one victim critically injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">Police have appealed for information on two people with warrants out for their arrest after two incidents in Hamilton last Thursday \u2014 one of which left <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/01\/29\/man-found-critically-injured-following-hamilton-assault-overnight\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a man critically injured<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Hone Haunui Neal, 40, and Hope Waimata Waitere, 29, were wanted over the two incidents on Vernall St and Lyon St on January 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police said anyone who saw Neal or Waitere should not approach them and &#8220;instead call Police on 111 immediately with as much information as you can safely gather&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Information on Neal or Waitere&#8217;s whereabouts could be provided online through 105.police.govt.nz, or by calling 105.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Officers were called to Lyon St shortly before midnight last Thursday after a violent incident at a residential property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Scene guards were put in place as officers carried out inquiries, Detective Sergeant Johnathon O\u2019Byrne said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Around 2.40am on the same night, officers found a man with \u201csignificant injuries\u201d on Avalon Dr. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police said the injuries were consistent with an assault, and the man was taken to hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Anyone with information on last Thursday\u2019s incidents was also asked to contact police, quoting file number 260129\/1915.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have appealed for information on two people with warrants out for their arrest after two incidents in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,9001,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-263416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-crime-and-justice","9":"tag-hamilton-waikato","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\/263416","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=263416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}