{"id":549996,"date":"2026-07-29T18:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T18:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/549996\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T18:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T18:56:18","slug":"auckland-school-threat-trial-police-detail-discovery-of-guns-ammunition-and-firearm-plans-linked-to-tiedan-huo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/549996\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland school threat trial: Police detail discovery of guns, ammunition and firearm plans linked to Tiedan Huo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police searching properties linked to a man alleged to have made violent threats<\/a> against two Auckland schools found a blueprint for a military-style firearm and a loaded shotgun in a bedroom.<\/p>\n

He’s also charged with unlawful possession of a firearm and of explosives, and possession of objectionable material.<\/p>\n

The charges stem from a manifesto, it’s alleged Huo distributed early on the morning of 12 March last year.<\/p>\n

The officer in charge of exhibits, Detective Constable Daniel MacKenzie, took the stand today to describe the search of a house in Mangere East and then of a large farm in Waiuku.<\/p>\n

Among items located at the Mangere East property was a cellphone wrapped in tinfoil inside a box.<\/p>\n

At the Waiuku farm, officers located a blueprint diagram for an AR-15 assault rifle in a bedroom they’d been told was Huo’s. The now-banned firearm is the same type that was used by the Christchurch terrorist.<\/p>\n

MacKenzie said they also found a loaded pump-action shotgun on the bed, as well as 96 shotgun cartridges.<\/p>\n

A box containing a further 250 cartridges was found in the living area.<\/p>\n

Police also located a 3D printer, firearms parts, a machete, a knife, and multiple spent shotgun cartridges.<\/p>\n

“There were numerous expended shotgun rounds in the kitchen on the bench, and also observed on the front deck.”<\/p>\n

The detective described the main house on the property as being extremely messy.<\/p>\n

A second shotgun was found inside a gun case in a different bedroom.<\/p>\n

Huo’s mother had a firearms licence, and he is not charged in connection with this weapon.<\/p>\n

The jury is expected to be shown a video recording of Huo’s interview with police this afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police searching properties linked to a man alleged to have made violent threats against two Auckland schools found…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-549996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549996","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=549996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}