{"id":622254,"date":"2026-10-06T12:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T12:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/622254\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T12:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T12:12:11","slug":"otara-river-search-womans-body-found-at-sea-man-arrested-in-gisborne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/622254\/","title":{"rendered":"\u014ctara River search: Woman\u2019s body found at sea, man arrested in Gisborne"},"content":{"rendered":"

Specialist teams have been searching the river and surrounding area.<\/p>\n

Gillbanks said the woman\u2019s death would be referred to the coroner. <\/p>\n

The Independent Police Conduct Authority had been notified, \u201cas is standard practice\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cPolice would like to thank our partner agencies, searchers, and the community for their efforts to return her to wh\u0101nau. <\/p>\n

\u201cOur thoughts are with her wh\u0101nau at this time,\u201d Gillbanks said.<\/p>\n

Earlier today, he said a 33-year-old man had been arrested in Gisborne. <\/p>\n

The man had been charged with driving dangerously and failing to stop for police.<\/p>\n

The Gisborne Herald reported Ashley William Forbes, 33, appeared in Gisborne District Court today.<\/p>\n

He also faced several charges related to other alleged offending.<\/p>\n

Forbes was remanded in custody until tomorrow afternoon for his next appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Specialist teams have been searching the river and surrounding area. Gillbanks said the woman\u2019s death would be referred…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11924,1975,1558,7800,2837,1874,12506,33443,42,78,671,296,5158,6501,43,1562,675,8694,6739,3008,1870,7812,7811,10809,33913,40,38,41,39,1354,5816],"class_list":["post-622254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-arrested","tag-at","tag-been","tag-body","tag-during","tag-found","tag-gisborne","tag-heading","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-incident","tag-into","tag-man","tag-missing","tag-news","tag-plenty","tag-police","tag-recovered","tag-river","tag-sea","tag-search","tag-seen","tag-since","tag-sunday","tag-tara","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-woman","tag-womans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622254","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=622254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}