{"id":495684,"date":"2026-06-25T23:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/495684\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T23:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:54:12","slug":"hastings-stolen-mazda-demio-found-submerged-in-karamu-stream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/495684\/","title":{"rendered":"Hastings: Stolen Mazda Demio found submerged in Karamu Stream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">An odd place to park. Photo \/ Jack Riddell<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Authorities are attempting to remove what police believe to be a stolen Mazda Demio found fully submerged in the Karamu Stream near Hastings this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Photos from the scene show the car underwater, with only its roof showing above. There was no indication anyone was inside.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"A Mazda Demio, thought to have been stolen, lies in the Karamu Stream near Whakatu, Hastings, this morning. Photo \/ Jack Riddell\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>A Mazda Demio, thought to have been stolen, lies in the Karamu Stream near Whakatu, Hastings, this morning. Photo \/ Jack Riddell<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Police were called to<br \/>\n         the scene off Te Ara Kahikatea, between Pakowhai Rd and Whakatu Rd, about 8.15am.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">A Hawke\u2019s Bay Regional Council boat, typically tasked with clearing the stream of weeds, was seen inspecting the car. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An odd place to park. Photo \/ Jack Riddell Authorities are attempting to remove what police believe to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[50327,29893,1970,121859,1874,25282,5194,42,78,248125,61546,1304,3180,43,675,28875,4736,31788,132503,1961,40,38,41,39,6923],"class_list":["post-495684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-attempting","tag-authorities","tag-believe","tag-demio","tag-found","tag-fully","tag-hastings","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-karamu","tag-mazda","tag-morning","tag-near","tag-news","tag-police","tag-remove","tag-stolen","tag-stream","tag-submerged","tag-this","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-what"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495684","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=495684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}