{"id":449714,"date":"2026-05-28T16:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/449714\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T16:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:32:18","slug":"police-find-rifle-ammo-and-drugs-in-rotorua-car-during-early-morning-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/449714\/","title":{"rendered":"Police find rifle, ammo and drugs in Rotorua car during early morning stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">Two men, aged 23 and 20, are due to appear in Rotorua District Court on June 4 charged with firearms-related offences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">Bay of Plenty Police District Command Centre Senior Sergeant Roger Schreuder said police were committed to reducing harm from the illegal use of firearms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cReport any illegal activity to 111 if it\u2019s happening now and use our 105 service either by phone or online if the matter is not urgent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cYou can also provide information anonymously through Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men, aged 23 and 20, are due to appear in Rotorua District Court on June 4 charged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,20929,20934,95,3944,1873,14647,1757,2837,2245,9881,1866,229011,32655,78,61094,1304,111,43,139,69,675,162692,1327,1324,3946],"class_list":["post-449714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-ammo","tag-ammunition","tag-and","tag-car","tag-charges","tag-discovered","tag-drugs","tag-during","tag-early","tag-facing","tag-find","tag-firearmsrelated","tag-hunting","tag-in","tag-knife","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-rifle","tag-rotorua","tag-stop","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449714","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=449714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}