{"id":331597,"date":"2026-03-16T01:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T01:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/331597\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T01:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T01:48:07","slug":"police-warn-public-as-wanted-man-nigel-edwards-sought-over-papakura-firearms-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/331597\/","title":{"rendered":"Police warn public as wanted man Nigel Edwards sought over Papakura firearms incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">Police said they have made a number of inquiries to find Edwards over the past week.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Police are seeking information on the whereabouts of Nigel Edwards, who is wanted for arrest. Photo \/ NZ Police\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Police are seeking information on the whereabouts of Nigel Edwards, who is wanted for arrest. Photo \/ NZ Police<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cEdwards is actively avoiding police, and the public should consider him dangerous. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cDo not approach him,\u201d police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">Photos from the scene showed police officers standing guard outside a taped-off house on Marne Rd, while another officer stood next to a long driveway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">Police advised anyone to call police on 111 if they have seen Edwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cInformation on his whereabouts can also be provided to police via 105 using the reference number 260308\/7975,\u201d police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police said they have made a number of inquiries to find Edwards over the past week. Police are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14466,806,51,8452,25597,16959,671,10933,5158,111,43,139,45146,69,1523,86606,675,3109,38988,11929,23419,10536,13911,1240,1361,5828,26697],"class_list":["post-331597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-arrest","tag-as","tag-auckland","tag-dangerous","tag-edwards","tag-firearms","tag-incident","tag-injured","tag-man","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nigel","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-papakura","tag-police","tag-public","tag-relation","tag-searching","tag-seriously","tag-someone","tag-sought","tag-south","tag-that","tag-wanted","tag-warn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331597","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=331597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}