{"id":610239,"date":"2026-09-24T11:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T11:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/610239\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T11:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T11:42:10","slug":"man-charged-after-election-hoardings-damaged-in-tauranga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/610239\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after election hoardings damaged in Tauranga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man is due to reappear in court charged with allegedly damaging election hoardings in Tauranga \u2013 the second such incident in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Around 8pm on September 16, Senior Sergeant Shannon Clifford said police were called to P\u0101p\u0101moa Beach Rd following reports of a man causing a disturbance near Bermuda St.<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrived at the scene to find a man allegedly damaging election hoardings.<\/p>\n<p>The man was taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>The 49-year-old was due to reappear in Tauranga District Court on October 30 on two charges of wilful damage. <\/p>\n<p>It was the second such arrest in relation to damaged election hoardings in the Tauranga area recently.<\/p>\n<p>A Tauranga man was charged after an alleged &#8220;vandalism spree&#8221; led to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/09\/13\/man-arrested-after-30-election-hoardings-damaged-in-vandalism-spree\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">30 hoardings damaged in two hours<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The first hoardings on Parton Rd in P\u0101p\u0101moa were hit at around 6.30am on September 10.<\/p>\n<p>A 43-year-old man was due to reappear in court on October 2 on four charges of wilful damage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police hope these arrests send a strong message that anyone who chooses to cause this type of damage will face the consequences,&#8221; Clifford said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is due to reappear in court charged with allegedly damaging election hoardings in Tauranga \u2013 the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,111,43,139,69,1756],"class_list":["post-610239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tauranga-bay-of-plenty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610239","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=610239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}