{"id":205045,"date":"2025-12-28T12:18:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T12:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/205045\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T12:18:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T12:18:13","slug":"police-ask-for-help-finding-people-behind-mass-disorder-on-aucklands-karangahape-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/205045\/","title":{"rendered":"Police ask for help finding people behind &#8216;mass disorder&#8217; on Auckland&#8217;s Karangahape Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4NCOOYW_image_crop_79391.webp\" width=\"1050\" height=\"694\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPolice are asking any witnesses to come forward via 105, particularly if they had photos or video.<br \/>\nPhoto:\n<\/p>\n<p>Police are asking for help to identify those involved in a brawl on Auckland&#8217;s Karangahape Road early on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Three men were hospitalised after a series of assaults following the &#8220;mass disorder&#8221;, police said, and four arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to disperse the crowd, estimated at more than 50 people, at 3.41am.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A significant amount of police resource, including dog units were deployed to disperse parties at the disorder,&#8221; Detective Senior Sergeant Mark Greaves said in a statement on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Around 4.15am there was a serious assault outside the Crown Bar on Queen Street. A 33-year-old man received serious injuries and was hospitalised.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Around 4.30am there was another serious assault on Cobden Steet just off Karangahape Road. A 27-year-old man received serious injuries and was hospitalised.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A third serious assault took place at the Mobil Service Station on the corner or Karangahape and Ponsonby roads around 5am. A 46-year-old man was seriously injured and also hospitalised.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police are asking any witnesses to come forward via 105, particularly if they had photos or video.<\/p>\n<p>A 21-year-old man will appear in the Auckland District Court on Monday charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.<\/p>\n<p>Two further offenders from the night of chaos were still sought, Greaves said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police are disappointed at the bad, aggressive and careless behaviour on display on Karangahape Road and will be holding any and all offenders to account.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The police file number is 251228\/4774.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero, a daily newsletter<\/a> curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are asking any witnesses to come forward via 105, particularly if they had photos or video. Photo:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-205045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205045","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=205045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}