{"id":218862,"date":"2026-01-06T02:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T02:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/218862\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T02:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T02:25:14","slug":"appeal-for-info-on-assault-in-andersons-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/218862\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal for info on &#8216;assault&#8217; in Andersons Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-21-10\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/andersons_bay_221222.jpg\" width=\"992\" height=\"472\" alt=\"The assault took place in a carpark near Bayfield Park yesterday, police say. PHOTO: GERARD O...\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The assault took place in a carpark near Bayfield Park yesterday, police say. PHOTO: GERARD O&#8217;BRIEN (file)<\/p>\n<p>Dunedin police are seeking more information about an alleged assault in the Andersons Bay area.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Sergeant Anthony Bond, of Dunedin, said police received around 10 calls about a 38-year-old man assaulting his 39-year-old partner near the car park at Bayfield Park about 5pm yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The man allegedly stole a push-bike from a member of the public, then continued to assault the female and drove off in a van.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers located the van in Centre Rd and the man was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>He will appear in court today charged with assault with intent to injure, strangulation, threats to kill, robbery, refusing an officer\u2019s request for blood and driving while he does not have a licence, previously forbidden.<\/p>\n<p>Police were seeking any other witnesses to the incident to come forward and contact them through the 105 number.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/news\/dunedin\/mailto:mark.john@odt.co.nz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mark.john@odt.co.nz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The assault took place in a carpark near Bayfield Park yesterday, police say. PHOTO: GERARD O&#8217;BRIEN (file) Dunedin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-218862","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\/218862","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=218862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}