{"id":485368,"date":"2026-06-19T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/485368\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T12:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T12:00:11","slug":"sunlive-body-found-in-search-for-missing-tauranga-man-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/485368\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive &#8211; Body found in search for missing Tauranga man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have located a body in the search for a missing Tauranga man.<\/p>\n<p>The body was found off the Pahoia Peninsula on Thursday evening, following ongoing efforts to locate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunlive.co.nz\/news\/382259-police-seek-information-on-missing-tauranga-man-.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sunlive.co.nz\/news\/382259-police-seek-information-on-missing-tauranga-man-.html\">56-year-old Aaron Franklin<\/a>, who was reported missing on June 8.<\/p>\n<p>Police said on Wednesday that while Franklin was reported missing earlier this month, he had not been seen since May.<\/p>\n<p>While formal identification is still underway, police said the body is believed to be Franklin.<\/p>\n<p>Police have been in contact with the man\u2019s family and are providing them with support. police said.<\/p>\n<p>Enquiries remain ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have located a body in the search for a missing Tauranga man. The body was found off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-485368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485368","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=485368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}