{"id":588969,"date":"2026-09-03T16:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T16:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/588969\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T16:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T16:12:11","slug":"defence-force-called-after-suspected-grenade-found-at-west-auckland-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/588969\/","title":{"rendered":"Defence Force called after suspected grenade found at West Auckland business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>3 Sep, 2026 03:27 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 class=\"\">An item believed to be an old grenade was found at a West Auckland business this afternoon, sparking calls to police and the Defence Force. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Police said the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) has helped with the disposal of an \u201cold grenade\u201d from a business on The Concourse in<br \/>\n         Henderson.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPolice were notified of an item located at a commercial premise on The Concourse this afternoon,\u201d police told the Herald. <\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPolice advised the NZDF EOD [explosive ordnance disposal] team, who have uplifted what is believed to be an old grenade for disposal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 3 Sep, 2026 03:27 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,11730,1975,51,8843,138,1559,115,1403,5760,1874,1867,1553,111,43,139,69,675,45608,8841,1961,3807],"class_list":["post-588969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-afternoon","tag-at","tag-auckland","tag-believed","tag-business","tag-called","tag-calls","tag-defence","tag-force","tag-found","tag-grenade","tag-item","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-sparking","tag-suspected","tag-this","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588969","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=588969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}