{"id":179113,"date":"2025-12-11T22:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/179113\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T22:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:47:07","slug":"auckland-couple-charged-with-kidnapping-assault-after-luring-victim-with-marketplace-car-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/179113\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland couple charged with kidnapping, assault after luring victim with Marketplace car sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">An alleged offender made the victim get into the vehicle to withdraw more money from a Stoddard Rd ATM.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">He was  then taken to another ATM before the offenders took off in a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe victim has contacted police immediately and at about 11.40pm officers located the vehicle abandoned on Emily Place,\u201d Kirk said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">After police opened an investigation, they found the offenders had checked into a nearby hotel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">Police tasered the pair when they exited the room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">Kirk said a 32-year-old man and a 35-year-old woman will appear in Auckland District Court today, charged with assault with intent to injure, kidnapping and theft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis police activity should send a clear message to those involved in this unlawful behaviour that it will not be tolerated by police or the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis is really seriously offending and police are focused on ensuring the victim gets the support they need following this traumatic incident.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An alleged offender made the victim get into the vehicle to withdraw more money from a Stoddard Rd&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,17704,51,1558,3944,13239,8414,4636,305,20925,114354,6214,111,43,139,69,384,114355,13673,1133,8229,13797,1337,102],"class_list":["post-179113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-assault","tag-auckland","tag-been","tag-car","tag-charged","tag-couple","tag-facebook","tag-have","tag-kidnapping","tag-luring","tag-marketplace","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-people","tag-ploy","tag-purchase","tag-sale","tag-they","tag-used","tag-victim","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179113","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=179113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}