{"id":106261,"date":"2025-10-29T02:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T02:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/106261\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T02:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T02:15:11","slug":"43-arrested-96-guns-seized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/106261\/","title":{"rendered":"43 arrested, 96 guns seized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forty-three people have been arrested and 96 guns seized after police executed dozens of raids up and down the country last week. <\/p>\n<p>The searches took place between Monday, October 13 and Sunday, October 19, as part of a coordinated crackdown by New Zealand and Australian police. <\/p>\n<p>The two agencies had worked to monitor real-time intelligence and assessments of targeted persons of interest.  <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/some-of-the-guns-seized-by-police-6VASHNO6DBE7NOWNI6QM5JNIIA.jpg\" alt=\"Some of the guns seized by police. \" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Some of the guns seized by police.  (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>A total of 83 searches and 34 compliance checks were carried out by police in New Zealand, resulting in 43 arrests and 110 charges.  <\/p>\n<p>Police seized 96 firearms in the raids, including shotguns, rifles, and pistols. Fifteen gun parts were also seized. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/some-of-the-guns-seized-by-police-ZUHAB7EDJZBKPG6OUMERAYPTZE.jpg\" alt=\"Some of the guns seized by police. \" width=\"800\" height=\"580\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Some of the guns seized by police.  (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The contribution from across the country, from all of our police districts and partner agencies, has led to a successful week of disrupting criminals in possession of illegal firearms,&#8221; Detective Inspector Andrew Alexander said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUtilising our intelligence-led approach to target those in possession of illegal firearms, parts or accessories, without appropriate permits, has ensured that illegal firearms are removed from our streets.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forty-three people have been arrested and 96 guns seized after police executed dozens of raids up and down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-106261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-crime-and-justice","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106261","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=106261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}