{"id":225639,"date":"2026-01-09T21:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T21:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/225639\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T21:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T21:18:18","slug":"large-police-presence-in-riccarton-following-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/225639\/","title":{"rendered":"Large police presence in Riccarton following assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large police presence remains in Riccarton tonight following an assault on Riccarton Road.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Lynch Media understands the victim was allegedly kidnapped and then forced to withdraw money from an ATM during the incident.<\/p>\n<p>It is not known whether the victim and the offender were known to each other.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46313\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46313\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Image-1.png.webp.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-46313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Lynch Media<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, police said one person was taken into custody following an assault reported at 3.45pm.<\/p>\n<p>The victim has been receiving medical assistance and police said the injuries did not appear to be life threatening.<\/p>\n<p>St John said it was notified of the incident and responded with an ambulance but transportation was not required.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46314\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46314\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Image-2.png.webp.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-46314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Lynch Media<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said staff remain at the scene as enquiries continue into the circumstances surrounding the assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large police presence remains in Riccarton tonight following an assault on Riccarton Road. Chris Lynch Media understands&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[373,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-225639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-featured","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225639","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=225639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}