{"id":401652,"date":"2026-04-28T14:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/401652\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T14:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:46:08","slug":"armed-police-operation-closes-highway-near-coroglen-tavern-in-coromandel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/401652\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed police operation closes highway near Coroglen Tavern in Coromandel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">The incident, which has also been the subject of social media posts, is understood to have begun about 8.45pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Findlay and two others \u2013 one a neighbour of the property where the incident was understood to be taking place \u2013 were stuck at the tavern while the police operation continued, he said just before 11pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">However, he felt safe, Findlay said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe\u2019re just chilling out waiting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">The Herald has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/police\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/police\/\">contacted police<\/a> for comment, but hadn\u2019t received a response as of 11pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incident, which has also been the subject of social media posts, is understood to have begun about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7814,18509,17163,207178,22506,26755,78,671,101,3180,36661,111,43,139,69,17286,48375,384,675,312,12507,78030,8475,38693,3603],"class_list":["post-401652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-armed","tag-closes","tag-closure","tag-coroglen","tag-coromandel","tag-highway","tag-in","tag-incident","tag-left","tag-near","tag-nearby","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-operation","tag-peninsula","tag-people","tag-police","tag-says","tag-stranded","tag-tavern","tag-thats","tag-unfolding","tag-witness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401652","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=401652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}