{"id":598635,"date":"2026-09-13T01:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T01:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/598635\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T01:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T01:52:10","slug":"tauranga-man-charged-over-political-hoarding-damage-in-papamoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/598635\/","title":{"rendered":"Tauranga man charged over political hoarding damage in P\u0101p\u0101moa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bay of Plenty Times<\/p>\n<p>12 Sep, 2026 10:26 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\">A damaged election sign in P\u0101p\u0101moa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A Tauranga man has been charged in relation to damage to political hoardings in P\u0101p\u0101moa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police say reports were received after hoardings were damaged on Parton Rd at about 6.30am on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         About 30 hoardings of various kinds were reported damaged across P\u0101p\u0101moa over a two-hour period, Senior Sergeant Shannon<br \/>\n         Clifford, area manager response said.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">Clifford thanked members of the public who reported the incidents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">A 43-year-old Tauranga man faces four charges of wilful damage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bay of Plenty Times 12 Sep, 2026 10:26 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1558,13239,22510,6931,49611,78,5158,111,43,139,69,1523,18154,23282,38988,1227],"class_list":["post-598635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-been","tag-charged","tag-damage","tag-hoarding","tag-hoardings","tag-in","tag-man","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-political","tag-ppmoa","tag-relation","tag-tauranga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598635","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=598635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}