{"id":7002,"date":"2023-08-04T17:50:35","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T05:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7002"},"modified":"2023-08-04T17:50:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T05:50:35","slug":"stolen-ute-used-by-tom-phillips-father-of-missing-marokopa-kids-found-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7002","title":{"rendered":"Stolen ute used by Tom Phillips, father of missing Marokopa kids, found by police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The stolen Toyota hilux ute being used by Tom Phillips has been found following a tip-off from a member of the public, police say.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips has been missing with his three children, Jayda, Maverick and Ember, since December 2021.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, police said they &#8220;deployed following information received around 11am today from a member of the public, who saw the Toyota Hilux just off Marokopa Road in Te Anga.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Police Eagle helicopter was also utilised. At this time neither Tom nor the children have been located.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police also thanked the public for support and help, but asked that those with information continue to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, police made\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/495069\/watch-police-speak-after-reported-sighting-of-father-of-missing-marokopa-children\">appeals for sightings of the bronze 2003 Toyota Hilux flat-deck ute<\/a>\u00a0after multiple sightings of Phillips driving it on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/495109\/tom-phillips-father-of-missing-marokopa-children-evaded-multiple-pursuers-residents-say\">escaped multiple pursuers on the road to K\u0101whia in the vehicle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>VIA RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stolen Toyota hilux ute being used by Tom Phillips has been found following a tip-off from a member of the public, police say. Phillips has been missing with his three children, Jayda, Maverick and Ember, since December 2021. In a statement, police said they &#8220;deployed following information received around 11am today from a member [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7004,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7002\/revisions\/7004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}