{"id":309185,"date":"2026-03-02T09:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/309185\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T09:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:15:07","slug":"waikato-police-incident-man-in-custody-after-family-harm-call-to-parawera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/309185\/","title":{"rendered":"Waikato police incident: Man in custody after family harm call to Parawera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"BseiQmTTCbyVEQR\" style=\"display:none\">Cordons were in place near Arapuni Rd and the public was asked to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BseiQmTTCbyVEQR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThere is not believed to be any risk to the wider public at this time,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BseiQmTTCbyVEQR\" style=\"display:none\">Te Awamutu College informed parents that because of the road closure, bus 13 would be detoured via Puahue Rd and Monckton Rd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BseiQmTTCbyVEQR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAny students who get off the bus before Parawera Marae on Arapuni Rd need to be picked up from school,\u201d the school said on social media. <\/p>\n<p class=\"BseiQmTTCbyVEQR\" style=\"display:none\">In an update, Waikato West Area Commander Inspector Andrew Mortimore said a man had been taken into custody and charges were pending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BseiQmTTCbyVEQR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPolice are not seeking anyone else in relation to this incident,\u201d Mortimore said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BseiQmTTCbyVEQR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPolice remain at Mellsop Rd for the time being, but remaining cordons on that road will be lifted this evening.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cordons were in place near Arapuni Rd and the public was asked to avoid the area. \u201cThere is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,11730,3043,11928,2109,11521,78,671,5158,111,43,139,69,168636,675,3175,1961,61,1524],"class_list":{"0":"post-309185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-afternoon","10":"tag-call","11":"tag-custody","12":"tag-family","13":"tag-harm","14":"tag-in","15":"tag-incident","16":"tag-man","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-parawera","22":"tag-police","23":"tag-rural","24":"tag-this","25":"tag-to","26":"tag-waikato"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309185","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=309185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}