{"id":413423,"date":"2026-05-05T20:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/413423\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T20:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:43:08","slug":"loud-bang-in-redhill-papakura-leads-police-to-drug-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/413423\/","title":{"rendered":"Loud bang in Redhill, Papakura leads police to drug find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Police said they were speaking to several \u201cpersons of interest\u201d and were conducting a scene examination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThere is no risk to the public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Police were conducting a scene examination overnight after finding drug-related items at a Redhill address. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Police were conducting a scene examination overnight after finding drug-related items at a Redhill address. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Local residents on social media last night reported hearing a loud explosion before police swarmed the address and closed off part of Ancroft St.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">One person said they heard a \u201cbig bang, big flash then a lot of smoke\u201d while another \u201cheard the boom and then a smell like when [an] aerosol is thrown on a fire\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Another person said they heard the boom from Drury, which is several kilometres away.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Multiple people in white protective gear were seen speaking to police after a loud bang was heard at the Ancroft St address. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Multiple people in white protective gear were seen speaking to police after a loud bang was heard at the Ancroft St address. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">A Fire and Emergency spokesman said the fire service was initially requested at the scene but was stood down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police said they were speaking to several \u201cpersons of interest\u201d and were conducting a scene examination. \u201cThere is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,21500,42611,43714,3401,53502,40737,1866,78,19474,22055,5165,2510,111,43,139,69,6507,86606,384,675,212533,15267,49954,61],"class_list":["post-413423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-attending","tag-bang","tag-discovering","tag-drug","tag-drugrelated","tag-explosion","tag-find","tag-in","tag-items","tag-leads","tag-loud","tag-multiple","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-overnight","tag-papakura","tag-people","tag-police","tag-redhill","tag-reported","tag-speaking","tag-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413423","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=413423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}