{"id":293763,"date":"2026-02-20T17:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/293763\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T17:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:10:17","slug":"sunlive-dax-holland-death-man-charged-with-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/293763\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive &#8211; Dax Holland death: Man charged with murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have arrested a man and charged him with murder in relation to the death of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/bay-of-plenty-times\/news\/tauranga-homeless-community-mourns-dax-hollands-shock-death\/SVSKCTVXGRGEXCQEAEABHWLDVM\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/bay-of-plenty-times\/news\/tauranga-homeless-community-mourns-dax-hollands-shock-death\/SVSKCTVXGRGEXCQEAEABHWLDVM\/\">Tauranga man Dax Holland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Holland\u2019s body was found at Wharepai Domain on Saturday, February 14.<\/p>\n<p>Following a post-mortem on Monday, police launched a homicide investigation.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement today, police said a 24-year-old has been charged with murder and is due to appear in Tauranga District Court tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice still want to hear from anyone who may have seen any unusual or suspicious behaviour around the Wharepai Domain before to 2pm on Saturday,\u201d Western Bay of Plenty Area Investigations Manager, Detective Senior Sergeant Natalie Flowerdew-Brown said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you have information that may assist with our investigation, please contact Police online at <a href=\"https:\/\/url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com\/s\/5BKtC4QZEmf4BqqmtOfNI4VbQB?domain=105.police.govt.nz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com\/s\/5BKtC4QZEmf4BqqmtOfNI4VbQB?domain=105.police.govt.nz\" target=\"_blank\">105.police.govt.nz<\/a>, clicking \u201cUpdate report\u201d, or by calling 105.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease use the reference number 260214\/8937.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Information can also be provided anonymously through Crime Stoppers, on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have arrested a man and charged him with murder in relation to the death of Tauranga man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-293763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293763","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=293763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}