{"id":504119,"date":"2026-07-01T07:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T07:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/504119\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T07:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T07:23:08","slug":"police-separately-seeking-three-dangerous-men-across-north-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/504119\/","title":{"rendered":"Police separately seeking three dangerous men across North Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">Police are separately seeking three men across Auckland, Hawke&#8217;s Bay and Bay of Plenty, who each have a warrant for their arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">In Auckland, police were seeking 19-year-old Kaisa Griffin, who was said to be actively avoiding police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">He was wanted for breaching his bail conditions and was believed to still be in the Auckland region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Griffin is considered dangerous and should not be approached.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police were also seeking Damon Joel Best, who was thought to be in the Bay of Plenty area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Anyone who saw Best was asked to not approach him, but to call police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">In Hawke&#8217;s Bay, police were seeking 41-year-old Anthony Ngapera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Ngapera has multiple warrants for his arrest and police said he was considered dangerous and should not be approached.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Information on the whereabouts of any of the three men could be provided through 111, or anonymously via Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are separately seeking three men across Auckland, Hawke&#8217;s Bay and Bay of Plenty, who each have a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,67,20277,42,43,1756,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-504119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-auckland","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-hawke-s-bay","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-tauranga-bay-of-plenty","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504119","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=504119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}