{"id":30846,"date":"2025-09-19T04:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T04:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/30846\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T04:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T04:21:09","slug":"police-discover-gun-ammunition-after-following-stolen-vehicle-in-whangarei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/30846\/","title":{"rendered":"Police discover gun, ammunition, after following stolen vehicle in Whang\u0101rei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cA search was conducted of the address, with three people of interest located inside,\u201d Rakete said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">Further searches uncovered live shotgun rounds, a firearm and more ammunition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis was great work by our officers, who persevered when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/northern-advocate\/news\/northland-police-open-the-lid-on-worst-excuses-for-speeding\/FNGRFHONSFAUDCHJOJP7NL2P5Q\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/northern-advocate\/news\/northland-police-open-the-lid-on-worst-excuses-for-speeding\/FNGRFHONSFAUDCHJOJP7NL2P5Q\/\">losing sight of the stolen vehicle<\/a>,\u201d Rakete said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe are pleased these items are now off the street and the alleged offender is facing the consequences of his actions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">A 45-year-old man appeared in the Whang\u0101rei District Court charged with failing to stop and unlawfully possessing a firearm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">He was remanded in custody and is due to reappear on September 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/northern-advocate\/author\/denise-piper\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denise Piper is a news reporter<\/a> for the Northern Advocate, focusing on health and business. She has more than 20 years in journalism and is passionate about covering stories that make a difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cA search was conducted of the address, with three people of interest located inside,\u201d Rakete said. Further searches&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,7818,20934,9174,14647,4189,12513,15226,5504,3606,78,111,43,139,69,4056,675,4736,1324,6845,1869],"class_list":["post-30846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-allegedly","tag-ammunition","tag-discover","tag-discovered","tag-driving","tag-failed","tag-firearm","tag-following","tag-gun","tag-in","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-person","tag-police","tag-stolen","tag-stop","tag-vehicle","tag-whangrei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30846","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=30846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}