{"id":562221,"date":"2026-08-07T22:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/562221\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:36:10","slug":"teenage-girl-missing-from-spotswood-new-plymouth-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/562221\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage girl missing from Spotswood, New Plymouth, found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>7 Aug, 2026 07:55 PMQuick 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\">The 15-year-old ran into an area of bush in New Plymouth around midnight. New Zealand Herald photograph.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A teenager who ran away from home after an argument with her mother, prompting police to issue an amber alert, has been found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Police earlier said the barefoot and lightly clad 15-year-old had disappeared into an area of bush in New Plymouth around midnight and was ill-equipped for a night<br \/>\n         outdoors.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe young person had an argument with mum and ran into the back bush of Hobart Drive. Despite extensive search by police and the family, she has not been located,\u201d Police said in the alert issued at 4.45am today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">Police confirmed she had been found to RNZ around 7am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 7 Aug, 2026 07:55 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,41242,34368,30086,4995,1558,1874,71,6868,42,1345,76,6501,6178,117,43,49267,675,42371,276510,10706,4054,40,38,41,39,102],"class_list":["post-562221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-alert","tag-amber","tag-argument","tag-away","tag-been","tag-found","tag-from","tag-girl","tag-headlines","tag-home","tag-issue","tag-missing","tag-mother","tag-new","tag-news","tag-plymouth","tag-police","tag-prompting","tag-spotswood","tag-teenage","tag-teenager","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562221","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=562221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}