{"id":535501,"date":"2026-07-20T17:58:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/535501\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T17:58:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:58:33","slug":"final-search-for-jeremy-robertson-sought-over-mothers-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/535501\/","title":{"rendered":"Final search for Jeremy Robertson, sought over mother&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Police will carry out a final search for missing man Jeremy Robertson, who is wanted in connection with the death of his mother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Police search and rescue staff, alongside volunteers, will scour areas surrounding Rotorua&#8217;s Blue and Green Lakes lookout where the vehicle Robertson was using was found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">The search, which will include a drone, takes place on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Detective Sergeant Richard How said the final planned search is expected to take one day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">There would be a significant presence in the area throughout the day, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">How said there had been been no activity on Robertson&#8217;s bank account or mobile phone since the vehicle he was using arrived at the Blue and Green Lakes carpark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Police believe the most likely scenario is that he died soon after arriving there, How said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police will carry out a final search for missing man Jeremy Robertson, who is wanted in connection with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-535501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535501","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=535501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}