{"id":400068,"date":"2026-04-27T15:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/400068\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T15:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:18:08","slug":"taupo-fire-five-men-charged-after-alleged-arson-at-meth-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/400068\/","title":{"rendered":"Taup\u014d fire: Five men charged after alleged arson at meth lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPolice continue to investigate the circumstances around the incident, including conducting a scene examination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">The Taup\u014d &amp; T\u016brangi Herald reported that a building adjacent to Tauhara Bakery and bordering JR\u2019s Landscaping, about 50m from a BP petrol station, was ablaze when emergency services were alerted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Tauhara Rd between Miro St and Hatton St was closed for about five hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Five men, aged 28 to 73, are due to appear in Taup\u014d District Court today, charged with manufacturing methamphetamine and wilfully setting fire to a property and endangering life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cPolice continue to investigate the circumstances around the incident, including conducting a scene examination.\u201d The Taup\u014d &amp; T\u016brangi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1554,53,1975,1558,8843,674,13239,2079,1342,305,7189,184904,3605,1868,13240,111,43,139,69,1852,13797],"class_list":["post-400068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-alleged","tag-arson","tag-at","tag-been","tag-believed","tag-building","tag-charged","tag-fire","tag-five","tag-have","tag-lab","tag-manufacture","tag-men","tag-meth","tag-methamphetamine","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-taup","tag-used"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400068","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=400068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}