{"id":187688,"date":"2025-12-17T05:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T05:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/187688\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T05:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T05:06:13","slug":"man-arrested-with-samurai-sword-after-armed-police-swarm-central-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/187688\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested with samurai sword after armed police swarm central Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPolice have located and seized a samurai sword wrapped in a jacket, which this man was carrying,\u201d Meade said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis man is now in police custody and will face charges relating to possessing an offensive weapon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPolice take any reports concerning firearms seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">There was no information to suggest the samurai sword was presented at any members of the public. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cPolice have located and seized a samurai sword wrapped in a jacket, which this man was carrying,\u201d Meade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,7814,11924,51,1558,682,1875,1853,1874,5158,111,43,139,69,675,45709,39537,45710,102],"class_list":["post-187688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-armed","tag-arrested","tag-auckland","tag-been","tag-being","tag-carrying","tag-central","tag-found","tag-man","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-samurai","tag-swarm","tag-sword","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187688","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=187688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}