{"id":485123,"date":"2026-06-19T08:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T08:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/485123\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T08:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T08:19:14","slug":"police-locate-body-off-pahoia-peninsula-in-hunt-for-missing-tauranga-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/485123\/","title":{"rendered":"Police locate body off Pahoia Peninsula in hunt for missing Tauranga man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bay of Plenty Times<\/p>\n<p>19 Jun, 2026 05:01 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">A body has been found by police in the search for Tauranga man Aaron Franklin. Photo \/ Police<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police have located a body in the search for a missing Tauranga man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The body was found off the Pahoia Peninsula on Thursday evening, after ongoing efforts to locate 56-year-old Aaron Franklin, who was reported missing on June 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Police said on Wednesday that while Franklin was reported missing earlier<br \/>\n         this month, he had not been seen since May.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Formal identification is still underway but police said the body is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunlive.co.nz\/news\/382259-police-seek-information-on-missing-tauranga-man-.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sunlive.co.nz\/news\/382259-police-seek-information-on-missing-tauranga-man-.html\">believed to be Franklin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Police have been in contact with his family and are providing them with support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bay of Plenty Times 19 Jun, 2026 05:01 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7800,2082,10937,78,47956,5158,6501,111,43,139,69,6662,243453,48375,675,1227],"class_list":["post-485123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-body","tag-for","tag-hunt","tag-in","tag-locate","tag-man","tag-missing","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-off","tag-pahoia","tag-peninsula","tag-police","tag-tauranga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485123","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=485123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}