{"id":118338,"date":"2025-11-05T00:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/118338\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T00:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:02:07","slug":"armed-police-swarm-wellington-street-witness-reports-seeing-people-taken-away-in-handcuffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/118338\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed police swarm Wellington street, witness reports seeing people taken away in handcuffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPolice staff are armed as a precaution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">A member of the public who works in the area said police told them they could be there for hours, and said \u201cthere\u2019s a bad boy who we need to get\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Police were seen carrying rifles at the scene. Photo \/ Ethan Manera\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Police were seen carrying rifles at the scene. Photo \/ Ethan Manera<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">They said they saw two people, a woman and a man, arrested and taken away in handcuffs just after midday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">They said the individuals \u201clooked a bit scruffy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cPolice staff are armed as a precaution.\u201d A member of the public who works in the area said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7814,4995,3951,83701,1853,2199,6183,83700,305,78,111,43,139,69,384,675,814,766,8601,5424,39537,61603,19554,52,3603],"class_list":["post-118338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-armed","tag-away","tag-blocking","tag-bordering","tag-central","tag-city","tag-dozens","tag-handcuffs","tag-have","tag-in","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-people","tag-police","tag-property","tag-reports","tag-seeing","tag-street","tag-swarm","tag-swarmed","tag-taken","tag-wellington","tag-witness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118338","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=118338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}