{"id":576750,"date":"2026-08-22T09:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T09:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/576750\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T09:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T09:32:09","slug":"police-investigating-unexplained-death-after-man-found-unresponsive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/576750\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigating \u2018unexplained\u2019 death after man found unresponsive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>22 Aug, 2026 07:26 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 are investigating a man&#8217;s unexplained death in the Far North. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police are investigating the unexplained death of a man found unresponsive at a property in the Far North district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Emergency services were called to a house in Haruru Falls, near Paihia, shortly before 4.30am. He was pronounced dead at the scene a short time later, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Northland District crime<br \/>\n         manager, Detective Rhys Johnston, said in a statement: \u201cHis death is currently being treated as unexplained and a post-mortem examination will take place tomorrow.\u201d\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Authorities said a 56-year-old woman was earlier arrested in relation to events that preceded the man\u2019s death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 22 Aug, 2026 07:26 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,634,7557,1874,42,17709,5158,43,529,675,814,40,38,41,39,23504,132851],"class_list":["post-576750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-death","tag-district","tag-found","tag-headlines","tag-investigating","tag-man","tag-news","tag-north","tag-police","tag-property","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-unexplained","tag-unresponsive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576750","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=576750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}