{"id":296480,"date":"2026-02-22T10:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T10:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/296480\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T10:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T10:09:09","slug":"police-seeking-john-joseph-paparoa-wanted-for-assault-firearms-offenses-and-dishonesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/296480\/","title":{"rendered":"Police seeking John Joseph Paparoa wanted for assault, firearms offenses and dishonesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>22 Feb, 2026 07:00 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\">52-year-old man John Joseph Paparoa is wanted for arrest. Photo\/ NZ Police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police are seeking help from the public to locate wanted man John Joseph Paparoa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Auckland police are seeking to arrest him in relation to alleged dishonesty, assault and firearm-related offending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The 52-year-old is believed to be actively avoiding arrest. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police are also concerned for his welfare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Anyone with information<br \/>\n         on him or his whereabouts are being asked to contact Police on 105 using the reference number 250131\/8937.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 22 Feb, 2026 07:00 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[95,17704,163450,16959,2082,71,42,5838,5126,53733,47956,43,163449,163448,675,3109,40249,40,38,41,39,5828],"class_list":{"0":"post-296480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-and","9":"tag-assault","10":"tag-dishonesty","11":"tag-firearms","12":"tag-for","13":"tag-from","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-help","16":"tag-john","17":"tag-joseph","18":"tag-locate","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-offenses","21":"tag-paparoa","22":"tag-police","23":"tag-public","24":"tag-seeking","25":"tag-top-news","26":"tag-top-stories","27":"tag-topnews","28":"tag-topstories","29":"tag-wanted"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296480","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=296480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}