{"id":459781,"date":"2026-06-04T01:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T01:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/459781\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T01:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T01:26:15","slug":"man-charged-with-arson-after-fire-at-christopher-luxons-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/459781\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with arson after fire at Christopher Luxon&#8217;s office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/4JNM5T8_WhatsApp_Image_2026_06_03_at_11_47_04_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"787\" alt=\"Christopher Luxon's electorate office has a police presence after a reported bang was heard.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPolice begin their investigation at the office in Auckland on Wednesday.<br \/>\nPhoto: Stuff\/Ava Whitworth\n<\/p>\n<p>A man has been charged with arson after a fire at the Auckland electorate office of Prime Minister Christopher Luxon.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Inspector Karen Bright said the 24-year-old man would appear in the Manukau District Court on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>No one else was being sought, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Police were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/political\/597107\/police-cordon-off-prime-minister-s-auckland-electorate-office\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">called to the scene on Millhouse Drive in Botany yesterday morning<\/a> after a person nearby heard a loud bang.<\/p>\n<p>Police cordoned off the building.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Luxon said no staff were harmed in the incident.<\/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":"Police begin their investigation at the office in Auckland on Wednesday. Photo: Stuff\/Ava Whitworth A man has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459009,"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-459781","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\/459781","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=459781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}