{"id":418459,"date":"2026-05-08T20:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/418459\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T20:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:30:15","slug":"public-appeal-for-auckland-teenager-missing-for-almost-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/418459\/","title":{"rendered":"Public appeal for Auckland teenager missing for almost a month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4JOY121_2m_awheo_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1207\" alt=\"Awheo, 15, has been missing from Northcote since April 13.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nAwheo, 15, has been missing from Northcote since April 13.<br \/>\nPhoto: NZ POLICE \/ SUPPLIED\n<\/p>\n<p>Police are askng for help from the public in finding an Auckland teenager who has been missing for almost a month.<\/p>\n<p>Awheo, 15, was last seen shortly before 10am on Monday, 13 April in the Northcote area heading towards Glenfield.<\/p>\n<p>He was described by police as being 188cm tall with curly light brown hair and blue eyes and was wearing a black hoodie and black Nike shoes with red detailing.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said police and Awheo&#8217;s family were concerned for his welfare and wanted to find him as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who had seen Awheo or had any information that could help find him, should call police on 105, quoting file number 260416\/3163.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Awheo, 15, has been missing from Northcote since April 13. Photo: NZ POLICE \/ SUPPLIED Police are askng&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-418459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418459","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=418459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}