{"id":145751,"date":"2025-11-21T03:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T03:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/145751\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T03:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T03:08:09","slug":"man-allegedly-attacked-kebab-store-worker-who-gave-him-a-free-meal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/145751\/","title":{"rendered":"Man allegedly attacked kebab store worker who gave him a free meal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">Police have arrested a man who allegedly assaulted an Auckland kebab shop worker \u2013 despite being given a free meal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The man went into the eatery on Henderson&#8217;s Rathgar Rd at around 9.45pm on October 26, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">He proceeded to intimidate a person working there, who offered him a free kebab in an attempt to keep the peace. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Detective Senior Sergeant Ryan Bunting said the man took the kebab, walked around the counter and assaulted the employee. He said the victim was then forced to hand over all of the money from the cash register before being assaulted again. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Bunting said investigators viewed CCTV footage and were able to identify who they believed carried out the attack. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Officers subsequently arrested a 30-year-old man at a Henderson address earlier this week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">He was charged with robbery by assault and remanded in custody. He was due to reappear in the Wait\u0101kere District Court on December 4. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">\u201cThis type of unnecessary violence puts people at serious risk of harm and we are focused on finding those involved and holding them to account,&#8221; Bunting said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have arrested a man who allegedly assaulted an Auckland kebab shop worker \u2013 despite being given a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-145751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-auckland","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145751","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=145751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}