{"id":624445,"date":"2026-10-08T14:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T14:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/624445\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T14:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T14:40:10","slug":"homicide-probe-after-man-found-dead-at-house-in-dargaville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/624445\/","title":{"rendered":"Homicide probe after man found dead at house in Dargaville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A homicide investigation has been launched following the death of a man at a house in Dargaville.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they were called to Hoeroa St at around 2.40pm yesterday after a man was found dead at a residential address. <\/p>\n<p>Detective Senior Sergeant Shane Pilmer said an investigation was in the early stages to determine the circumstances around the man&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A post-mortem examination and formal identification of the victim will be carried out over the coming days,&#8221; Pilmer said.<\/p>\n<p>A scene guard was in place while a scene examination was carried out. <\/p>\n<p>Residents could expect to see an increased police presence in the area while the investigation continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know this incident will be unsettling for the community. Police want to reassure residents that a dedicated team of investigators is working to establish exactly what happened and who is involved,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information was asked to contact police on 105, quoting Operation Trailside, or anonymously via Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A homicide investigation has been launched following the death of a man at a house in Dargaville. Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-624445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624445","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=624445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}