{"id":400112,"date":"2026-04-27T15:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/400112\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T15:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:55:15","slug":"men-allegedly-manufactured-meth-and-lit-deliberate-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/400112\/","title":{"rendered":"Men allegedly manufactured meth and lit deliberate fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five men are due before the court after a building police say was used to manufacture methamphetamine had been deliberately set on fire.<\/p>\n<p>The men, aged 28 to 73, are set to appear in Taup\u014d District Court on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Senior Sergeant Ryan Yardley said police got the call about the fire on Tauhara Road at around 5.40am on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Following initial enquiries, police believe the property was used to manufacture methamphetamine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police continue to investigate the circumstances around the incident, including conducting a scene examination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A scene guard remains in place while enquiries continue.<\/p>\n<p>The men will be charged with manufacturing methamphetamine, wilfully setting fire to a property, and endangering life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five men are due before the court after a building police say was used to manufacture methamphetamine had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-400112","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\/400112","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=400112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}