{"id":808487,"date":"2026-07-18T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/808487\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T16:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:00:14","slug":"police-investigate-quinns-rocks-machete-altercation-that-left-two-men-in-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/808487\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate Quinns Rocks machete altercation that left two men in hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Police are investigating after two men were found injured near businesses on Tapping Way in Quinns Rocks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Both men were taken to Joondalup Health Campus for treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">A BWS employee told reporters a man with cuts to his body walked through the store\u2019s drive-through on foot asking for an Uber.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The worker said she refused the request and told the man she needed to call an ambulance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The man reportedly became flustered, declined assistance and ran from the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">It is understood the incident began when one man approached another, before an altercation allegedly escalated and one of the men produced a machete.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Police said the two men were known to each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Police have appealed for anyone with information about the incident to contact Crime Stoppers anonymously on <a class=\"css-445i33-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perthnow.com.au\/news\/crime\/tel:1800%20333%20000\" target=\"_blank\">1800 333 000<\/a> or online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating after two men were found injured near businesses on Tapping Way in Quinns Rocks. Both&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,48,44],"class_list":["post-808487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-crime","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808487","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=808487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}