{"id":212795,"date":"2025-10-14T13:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T13:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/212795\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T13:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T13:28:11","slug":"allegedly-armed-man-who-sparked-hours-long-lockdown-of-brisbane-city-botanic-gardens-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/212795\/","title":{"rendered":"Allegedly armed man who sparked hours-long lockdown of Brisbane City Botanic Gardens in custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">An allegedly armed man who sparked a three-hour-long lockdown of a large park in Brisbane has been arrested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Queensland police were called to the Brisbane City Botanic Gardens about 1:30pm following reports of a man sitting on a bench holding what they described as an &#8220;edged weapon&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police spent several hours negotiating with the man before he was taken into custody and transported to hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police man and car behind closed gate at gardens\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/61ea714f06fea1f5ca7deaba020bc968\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Police officers guarded the gates stopping members of the public from entering the area. (ABC News: Kenji Sato)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The park was closed to the public, with people asked to avoid the area, and a large section was cordoned off while negotiations took place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Paramedics were also on the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The City Botanic Gardens reopened to the public about 5pm, after the man was taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police said their investigations were ongoing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"police cars on road \" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5ebd7270abda41921863e1c4f81a897c\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Police cordoned off parts of the City Botanic Gardens on Tuesday afternoon. (ABC News: Kate McKenna)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The City Botanic Gardens are located on the banks of the Brisbane River, near the Queensland University of Technology and the state parliament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">They span an area of 18 hectares and encompass 1.2 kilometres of river frontage.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police tape over a gate at Brisbane Botanic Gardens\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/972830cb87dac54952a1a7f0e25a3672\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">The Brisbane Botanic Garden was closed to the public while police attended. (ABC News: Kenji Sato)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An allegedly armed man who sparked a three-hour-long lockdown of a large park in Brisbane has been arrested.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5729,64,63,130670,651,130671,9278,37957,44,5863,1158,94,701,10471],"class_list":["post-212795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-allegations","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-botanical-gardens","tag-brisbane","tag-brisbane-city-botanic-gardens","tag-city","tag-knife","tag-news","tag-officer","tag-police","tag-qld","tag-queensland","tag-queensland-police-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}