{"id":434720,"date":"2026-05-19T08:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/434720\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T08:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:36:09","slug":"police-find-8-5g-of-meth-after-man-flees-during-search-at-te-aroha-waikato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/434720\/","title":{"rendered":"Police find 8.5g of meth after man flees during search at Te Aroha, Waikato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cDuring the search, the man fled on foot along Terminus St. Officers pursued him and witnessed him allegedly discarding an item as he ran. He was apprehended a short distance away following a brief struggle, with officers taking control safely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cA subsequent search located a quantity of methamphetamine both on the man and in the discarded container. In total, approximately 8.5g of meth was recovered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">The man is due to appear in Hamilton District Court charged with possession for supply and escaping from police custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">Police said they will be opposing bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cDuring the search, the man fled on foot along Terminus St. Officers pursued him and witnessed him allegedly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[222506,74,7818,24744,93609,1975,9525,2837,1866,15037,19553,71,3242,5158,1868,111,43,139,69,1118,675,1870,8690,1524,102],"class_list":["post-434720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-85g","tag-after","tag-allegedly","tag-amount","tag-aroha","tag-at","tag-caught","tag-during","tag-find","tag-fleeing","tag-flees","tag-from","tag-large","tag-man","tag-meth","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-police","tag-search","tag-te","tag-waikato","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434720","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=434720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}