{"id":287719,"date":"2026-02-17T04:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T04:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/287719\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T04:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T04:18:15","slug":"police-seek-public-help-to-find-missing-waikato-teen-maiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/287719\/","title":{"rendered":"Police seek public help to find missing Waikato teen Maiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>17 Feb, 2026 12:51 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Maiah has been missing for five days. Photo \/ Auckland City District Police<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police are appealing for the public\u2019s help to locate a teenager who has been missing for five days. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Maiah was reported missing in Ng\u0101ruaw\u0101hia. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police say the teenager was last seen on Thursday, February 12, wearing a light yellow crop top with blue baggy jeans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         It is believed<br \/>\n         she was in the Waikato area, but may have travelled to Auckland, said a police spokesperson.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 17 Feb, 2026 12:51 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28654,1558,4731,1866,1342,42,5838,47956,160029,6501,43,675,3109,39845,11925,5163,4054,61,40,38,41,39,1524],"class_list":{"0":"post-287719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-appealing","9":"tag-been","10":"tag-days","11":"tag-find","12":"tag-five","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-help","15":"tag-locate","16":"tag-maiah","17":"tag-missing","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-police","20":"tag-public","21":"tag-publics","22":"tag-seek","23":"tag-teen","24":"tag-teenager","25":"tag-to","26":"tag-top-news","27":"tag-top-stories","28":"tag-topnews","29":"tag-topstories","30":"tag-waikato"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287719","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=287719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}