A man removed his hoodie to reveal Mongrel Mob insignia before smashing the front door\u00a0of a Dunedin police station, police allege.<\/p>\n
The 44-year-old man, who was known to police, was seen \u2018\u2018pacing around\u2019\u2019 outside the\u00a0Dunedin Central Police Station at 6.15am on Sunday, Sergeant Matt Lee, of Dunedin said.<\/p>\n
“The male removed his hoodie and he was wearing a t-shirt displaying Mongrel Mob\u00a0insignia.”<\/p>\n
As officers approached the man to speak with him, the man allegedly damaged one of the\u00a0sliding glass doors to the police station with his foot, Sgt Lee said.<\/p>\n
The man was arrested and scheduled to appear in the Dunedin District Court today, charged\u00a0with wilful damage, breaching prohibition of gang insignia, breaching release conditions and\u00a0breaching bail.<\/p>\n
Bail was opposed.<\/p>\n
The cracked pane of glass was still visible at the station this morning.<\/p>\n
It is among a handful of incidents where damage has been inflicted to the station and police\u00a0property recently.<\/p>\n
Last month, a 32-year-old man allegedly used petrol as an accelerant to set the locked front\u00a0entrance of the station on fire overnight.<\/p>\n
That man then filmed the scene from across the road before dobbing himself in to police.<\/p>\n
And last week, a 54-year-old man allegedly used a knife to slash two tyres on police cars in\u00a0the alleyway adjacent to the station.<\/p>\n
He was spotted by police from out the window and arrested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man removed his hoodie to reveal Mongrel Mob insignia before smashing the front door\u00a0of a Dunedin police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-162852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","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\/162852","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=162852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}