{"id":463638,"date":"2026-06-06T07:27:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T07:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/463638\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T07:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T07:27:16","slug":"police-hunt-for-royal-hawea-after-prison-release-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/463638\/","title":{"rendered":"Police hunt for Royal Hawea, after prison release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/4JNGZZG_image005_png.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1403\" alt=\"On Friday 5 June, police said they are searching for Royal Hawea, 36, who was released from prison on compassionate grounds, and failed to return.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nOn Friday 5 June, police said they are searching for Royal Hawea, 36, who was released from prison on compassionate grounds, and failed to return.<br \/>\nPhoto: Supplied\/ Police\n<\/p>\n<p>Police are urgently looking for a man they say failed to return to prison after being released on compassionate grounds.<\/p>\n<p>An arrest warrant has been issued for 36-year-old Royal Hawea.<\/p>\n<p>Police warned that anyone who sees Hawea should not approach him, and should call 111.<\/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 daily newsletter<\/a> curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday 5 June, police said they are searching for Royal Hawea, 36, who was released from prison&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463532,"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-463638","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\/463638","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=463638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}