{"id":560697,"date":"2026-08-06T10:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T10:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/560697\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T10:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T10:32:15","slug":"person-in-custody-after-reported-firearm-sighting-in-dargaville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/560697\/","title":{"rendered":"Person in custody after reported firearm sighting in Dargaville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>6 Aug, 2026 08:43 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Police swarmed Dargaville this evening and a person was taken into custody. Photo \/ File <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A significant police response unfolded in Dargaville this evening after a reported firearm sighting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police said they responded to the sighting on Ranfurly St about 6.45pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Locals reported seeing more than 10 police cars heading towards the area, along with the Eagle helicopter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         One person was later taken into custody.<br \/>\n         Police remain in the area as inquiries continue.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 6 Aug, 2026 08:43 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,11928,23155,19555,15226,78,111,43,139,69,4056,675,15267,5034,59684,5257,1961,85480],"class_list":["post-560697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-custody","tag-dargaville","tag-evening","tag-firearm","tag-in","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-person","tag-police","tag-reported","tag-response","tag-sighting","tag-significant","tag-this","tag-unfolded"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560697","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=560697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}