{"id":505000,"date":"2026-07-01T20:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/505000\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T20:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:02:09","slug":"arrest-warrant-issued-for-dangerous-junior-simolo-after-shots-fired-in-botched-pt-england-auckland-break-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/505000\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest warrant issued for \u2018dangerous\u2019 Junior Simolo after shots fired in botched Pt England, Auckland break-in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Auckland City Detective Senior Sergeant Rebecca Kirk is appealing for any information on the whereabouts of Simolo, who is from the Pt England area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cSimolo is considered dangerous, and we urge the public to not approach him,\u201d Kirk said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIf you see Simolo, call 111 immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">A warrant for arrest had been granted in relation to serious firearms charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Anyone who has information on Simolo\u2019s whereabouts can contact police on 105 using the reference number 260629\/0371, or you can provide information anonymously by calling Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Auckland City Detective Senior Sergeant Rebecca Kirk is appealing for any information on the whereabouts of Simolo, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[33914,74,14466,51,24003,61686,31742,8452,1634,26663,2082,305,1345,78,18087,26588,111,43,139,69,675,181094,50376,251931,1961,1876,686,3608],"class_list":["post-505000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-19yearold","tag-after","tag-arrest","tag-auckland","tag-botched","tag-breakin","tag-considered","tag-dangerous","tag-england","tag-fired","tag-for","tag-have","tag-home","tag-in","tag-issued","tag-junior","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-pt","tag-shots","tag-simolo","tag-this","tag-warrant","tag-week","tag-were"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505000","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=505000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}