{"id":618266,"date":"2026-10-02T08:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T08:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/618266\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T08:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T08:18:11","slug":"police-operation-linked-to-search-for-missing-christchurch-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/618266\/","title":{"rendered":"Police operation linked to search for missing Christchurch man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A police operation is underway at a property in Christchurch, linked to the search for a man missing since mid-September.  <\/p>\n<p>Braydon Hepworth, 21, was last seen on England St in Linwood on Monday, September 14 and hasn&#8217;t been seen or heard from since.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ODDZ3UG6FRGUNITMEMLHA7A74M.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">(Source: 1News)<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said a scene examination was being carried out at a property in Linwood, believed to be Hepworth&#8217;s last known address. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Staff have made extensive enquiries to date, and Braydon has not been located,&#8221; police said.\u00a0&#8220;We are very concerned for Braydon.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Police urged anyone with information about Hepworth&#8217;s whereabouts to come forward. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police operation is underway at a property in Christchurch, linked to the search for a man missing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[158,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-618266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-christchurch-canterbury","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618266","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=618266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}