{"id":393088,"date":"2026-04-23T02:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/393088\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T02:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:34:13","slug":"armed-police-raid-south-otago-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/393088\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed police raid South Otago property"},"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\/20260423_095042_0.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\" alt=\"Police at the scene in Clarendon. Photo: Nick Brook\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police at the scene in Clarendon. Photo: Nick Brook<\/p>\n<p>Armed police descended on a rural property in South Otago in a pre-planned raid this morning.<\/p>\n<p>A witness who was passing by said about 9am this morning there were three marked police cars at the property near the intersection of State Highway 1 and Phosphate Rd at Clarendon.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic was still flowing but there were two officers in Armed Offender Squad-type uniforms about 30m south of the entrance of the house at the property, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The raid was in relation to a pre-planned search warrant, a police spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything&#8217;s under control, everybody&#8217;s fine,&#8221; a police officer at the scene said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Allied Media<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police at the scene in Clarendon. Photo: Nick Brook Armed police descended on a rural property in South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-393088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393088","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=393088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}