{"id":350544,"date":"2026-03-27T12:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/350544\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T12:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:29:09","slug":"police-step-up-search-for-missing-cromwell-man-antoine-richard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/350544\/","title":{"rendered":"Police step up search for missing Cromwell man Antoine Richard"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Police<\/p>\n

\nAntoine Richard was last seen on 21 March.
\nPhoto: Supplied \/ NZ Police\n<\/p>\n

Police are continuing their search for Antoine Richard, who has been reported missing from Cromwell.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old was last on Saturday, 21 March around 11.45pm at the Victoria Arms Hotel on the corner of Achil Street and Melmore Terrace.<\/p>\n

Police said Cromwell residents could expect to see water and land-based searches operating over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Richard was last seen wearing light coloured knee length shorts, a black t-shirt and light grey rubber sandals, police said.<\/p>\n

A grey rubber sandal was found by search teams from the shore of Lake Dunstan.<\/p>\n

Police are appealing to anyone that may have seen a person matching that description.<\/p>\n

People are also asked to check CCTV footage for pedestrians matching the person in the photo.<\/p>\n

If you have relevant footage, register your camera system<\/a> with Community Cam to help with the search for Richard.<\/p>\n

If you have seen Richard or have information regarding his whereabouts, please contact police through 105 online or by phone, and use file number 260324\/5771.<\/p>\n

Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Antoine Richard was last seen on 21 March. Photo: Supplied \/ NZ Police Police are continuing their search…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":["post-350544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350544","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=350544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}