{"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":["post-287719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-appealing","tag-been","tag-days","tag-find","tag-five","tag-headlines","tag-help","tag-locate","tag-maiah","tag-missing","tag-news","tag-police","tag-public","tag-publics","tag-seek","tag-teen","tag-teenager","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","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}]}}