{"id":116376,"date":"2025-11-03T22:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T22:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/116376\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T22:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T22:40:13","slug":"manurewa-raid-teen-bitten-by-police-dog-as-officers-arrest-two-seize-firearm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/116376\/","title":{"rendered":"Manurewa raid: Teen bitten by police dog as officers arrest two, seize firearm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"DlhGGFuIDuZ\" style=\"display:none\">The 16-year-old fled on foot to a nearby address, but a police dog tracked his whereabouts and bit him as officers were arresting him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DlhGGFuIDuZ\" style=\"display:none\">The teenager is now being treated in hospital for minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Police descended on the Manurewa property around 6.30am this morning. Photo \/ Michael Craig\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Police descended on the Manurewa property around 6.30am this morning. Photo \/ Michael Craig<\/p>\n<p class=\"DlhGGFuIDuZ\" style=\"display:none\">Police were also able to recover a shotgun discarded as the operation played out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DlhGGFuIDuZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe incident is contained, and taking another firearm out of circulation is a great outcome for our community,\u201d Vickers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DlhGGFuIDuZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPolice will be laying charges in due course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"DlhGGFuIDuZ\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 16-year-old fled on foot to a nearby address, but a police dog tracked his whereabouts and bit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,14466,806,682,26630,46919,3595,8984,9219,15226,2241,80177,111,43,139,69,23421,17286,675,11923,39728,5163,4054,23505,1237],"class_list":["post-116376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-arrest","tag-as","tag-being","tag-bite","tag-bitten","tag-by","tag-dawn","tag-dog","tag-firearm","tag-hospital","tag-manurewa","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-officers","tag-operation","tag-police","tag-raid","tag-seize","tag-teen","tag-teenager","tag-treated","tag-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116376","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=116376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}