{"id":280425,"date":"2026-02-12T12:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/280425\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T12:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:21:15","slug":"mahurangi-river-death-police-find-car-of-man-swept-away-near-warkworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/280425\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahurangi River death: Police find car of man swept away near Warkworth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">Inspector Nina Pedersen said the Police National Dive Squad was brought in to search the Mahurangi River yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cMr Arobati\u2019s Nissan X-Trail was located in the afternoon and recovered from the river.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Tekanimaeu Arobati\u2019s Nissan X-Trail was found in the afternoon and recovered from the river. Photo \/ Police\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Tekanimaeu Arobati\u2019s Nissan X-Trail was found in the afternoon and recovered from the river. Photo \/ Police<\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">Police efforts have been ongoing since the severe weather event in late January, and this discovery brought to an end, Pedersen said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOur thoughts remain with Mr Arobati\u2019s family and loved ones, as well as the wider Kiribati community,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPolice acknowledge all the staff from various agencies and teams, as well as the Kiribati community that have been involved in the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" 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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" 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\" 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":"Inspector Nina Pedersen said the Police National Dive Squad was brought in to search the Mahurangi River yesterday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4995,3944,634,1866,1874,305,42,118936,5158,3180,43,1118,675,6739,19875,40,38,41,39,6845,111476,5977],"class_list":["post-280425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-away","tag-car","tag-death","tag-find","tag-found","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-mahurangi","tag-man","tag-near","tag-news","tag-of","tag-police","tag-river","tag-swept","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-vehicle","tag-warkworth","tag-which"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280425","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=280425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}