{"id":180191,"date":"2025-12-12T12:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T12:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/180191\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T12:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T12:41:12","slug":"whangarei-otaika-shopping-centre-incident-two-people-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/180191\/","title":{"rendered":"Whang\u0101rei Otaika Shopping Centre incident: two people arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/9efb65fe-03d6-4e60-850d-8911700e8a2f.png\" alt=\"Brodie Stone\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/northern-advocate\/author\/brodie-stone\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Brodie Stone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Multimedia Journalist\u00b7Northern Advocate\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>12 Dec, 2025 01:36 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Police say inquiries are ongoing to establish the circumstances surrounding a disorder in Raumanga today. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Two people have been arrested after a reported fight outside a shopping centre in Whang\u0101rei this afternoon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police were called to a disorder outside the Otaika Shopping Centre in Raumanga about 1pm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         A police spokesperson said they were still in the early stages of their inquiries into the<br \/>\n         incident, which people online reported as a fight.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">Brodie Stone covers crime and emergency for the Northern Advocate. She has spent most of her life in Whang\u0101rei and is passionate about delving into issues that matter to Northlanders and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brodie Stone Multimedia Journalist\u00b7Northern Advocate\u00b7 12 Dec, 2025 01:36 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,11730,11924,1558,1550,15124,305,42,671,43,96802,14727,384,15267,1243,1961,40,38,41,39,1237,1869],"class_list":{"0":"post-180191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-afternoon","10":"tag-arrested","11":"tag-been","12":"tag-centre","13":"tag-fight","14":"tag-have","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-incident","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-otaika","19":"tag-outside","20":"tag-people","21":"tag-reported","22":"tag-shopping","23":"tag-this","24":"tag-top-news","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-topnews","27":"tag-topstories","28":"tag-two","29":"tag-whangrei"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180191","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=180191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}