{"id":402228,"date":"2026-04-28T22:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T22:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/402228\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T22:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T22:44:10","slug":"coromandel-armed-police-operation-man-charged-after-firearm-scare-in-coroglen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/402228\/","title":{"rendered":"Coromandel armed police operation: Man charged after firearm scare in Coroglen"},"content":{"rendered":"

The man was taken into custody at about 3am, the spokesperson said. <\/p>\n

Two air rifles were recovered from the address.<\/p>\n

Coroglen Tavern part-owner Luke Findlay had not long closed for the night yesterday when he saw three police vehicles with Armed Offenders Squad members travelling to a property near the pub 16km south of Whitianga.<\/p>\n

He understood a person with a gun had been seen on the driveway of the property, Findlay said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s AOS up at the [property], and three police officers here [outside the tavern] and cops either side of the Whitianga and Coroglen sides of the [State Highway 25] highway \u2026 and the [police] helicopter\u2019s going around.\u201d<\/p>\n

The incident was also the subject of social media posts.<\/p>\n

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

However, he felt safe, Findlay said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re just chilling out waiting.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 37-year-old man is due to appear in Hamilton District Court today on a charge of presenting a firearm\/restricted weapon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man was taken into custody at about 3am, the spokesperson said. Two air rifles were recovered from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,12642,7814,13239,207178,22506,1349,37850,15226,78,2845,5158,111,43,139,69,17286,384,675,40123,6661,59684,8214,12507,1865],"class_list":["post-402228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-appear","tag-armed","tag-charged","tag-coroglen","tag-coromandel","tag-court","tag-deployment","tag-firearm","tag-in","tag-leaving","tag-man","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-operation","tag-people","tag-police","tag-pub","tag-scare","tag-sighting","tag-sparked","tag-stranded","tag-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402228","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=402228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402228\/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=402228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}