{"id":116703,"date":"2025-11-04T02:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T02:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/116703\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T02:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T02:55:11","slug":"two-arrested-after-burnouts-disrupt-funeral-at-waikumete-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/116703\/","title":{"rendered":"Two arrested after burnouts disrupt funeral at Waikumete Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt\u2019s quite disappointing that this small group of people have chosen to behave like this,\u201d Walker said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThey frankly have no respect for others or the cemetery, which is a place reserved for remembrance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cDoing burnouts is not a sign of respect and we will continue to hold offenders to account.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">Police seized two cars and a motorbike and more police,  including the  Eagle Helicopter, attended the cemetery shortly after.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">A 52-year-old man was arrested and charged with failing to stop and will appear in the Wait\u0101kere District Court at a later date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">A 22-year-old man who handed himself in to police had his vehicle impounded and was charged with sustained loss of traction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">Police said they are continuing to make inquiries into  who the third driver was.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThere is no place for this senseless behaviour in our community,\u201d said Walker, \u201cand we will be looking to lay charges against all those involved.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s quite disappointing that this small group of people have chosen to behave like this,\u201d Walker said. \u201cThey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,11924,1975,21500,3952,72159,9525,49124,25137,31787,26524,305,111,43,139,69,675,12641,8229,1529,1237,6861,82840,3608,3807,6123],"class_list":["post-116703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-arrested","tag-at","tag-attending","tag-aucklands","tag-burnouts","tag-caught","tag-cemetery","tag-disrupt","tag-doing","tag-funeral","tag-have","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-seized","tag-they","tag-three","tag-two","tag-vehicles","tag-waikumete","tag-were","tag-west","tag-while"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116703","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=116703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}