{"id":526700,"date":"2026-07-15T04:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T04:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/526700\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T04:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T04:03:15","slug":"stolen-napier-boat-mighty-pelican-found-more-than-100km-from-marina-surrounded-by-cannabis-plants-and-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/526700\/","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Napier boat Mighty Pelican found more than 100km from marina, surrounded by cannabis plants and guns"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"JackJack Riddell<\/a><\/p>\n

Multimedia journalist\u00b7Hawkes Bay Today\u00b7<\/p>\n

15 Jul, 2026 02:29 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n

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The boat Mighty Pelican and its trailer were reported stolen on June 18.<\/p>\n

Police have found a boat stolen from a Napier marina in June sitting high and dry on a property in Wairoa more than 100 kilometres away.<\/p>\n

\n A police spokesperson said they arrested a man following a search warrant of the property on Tuesday, during which they found two stolen boats,
\n firearms and ammunition, and a cannabis-growing operation.\n <\/p>\n

One of the stolen boats is understood to be the Mighty Pelican \u2013 last week police issued a public plea for witnesses<\/a> after it was taken from a Napier marina on June 18.<\/p>\n

Both boats were in the process of being stripped, police said.<\/p>\n

The man, aged 25, was charged with a raft of offences and was due to appear in the Wairoa District Court on July 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Riddell Multimedia journalist\u00b7Hawkes Bay Today\u00b7 15 Jul, 2026 02:29 AMQuick Read \u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[60770,95,4995,5532,3595,17285,1874,71,7815,305,42,2959,13419,67253,24568,30032,130,3607,43,3488,5301,675,814,37451,4736,38694,131,40,38,41,39,15289],"class_list":["post-526700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-100km","tag-and","tag-away","tag-boat","tag-by","tag-cannabis","tag-found","tag-from","tag-guns","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-high","tag-june","tag-kilometres","tag-marina","tag-mighty","tag-more","tag-napier","tag-news","tag-pelican","tag-plants","tag-police","tag-property","tag-sitting","tag-stolen","tag-surrounded","tag-than","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wairoa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526700","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=526700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}