{"id":371331,"date":"2026-04-09T14:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/371331\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T14:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:34:15","slug":"road-closed-as-police-swarm-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/371331\/","title":{"rendered":"Road closed as police swarm area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-4-3\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a_section_of_malone_road_is_closed_.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\" alt=\"A section of Malone Road is closed. Photo: RNZ\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A section of Malone Road is closed. Photo: RNZ<\/p>\n<p>Armed police are guarding a scene in Lower Hutt and have shut off a section of Malone Road.<\/p>\n<p>A resident has told RNZ he heard sirens from about 8.30am on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Police will not give any information at this stage.<\/p>\n<p>A reporter at the scene said, as well as armed officers, there were people in white forensics suits taking photos of items on the grass berm.<\/p>\n<p>A tent has been set up across the footpath and part of the street, and another marquee has been erected on a property&#8217;s front garden.<\/p>\n<p>The road is cordoned off between Bauchop Road and Galway Street.<\/p>\n<p>More to come&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A section of Malone Road is closed. Photo: RNZ Armed police are guarding a scene in Lower Hutt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-371331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371331","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=371331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}