{"id":229413,"date":"2026-01-12T07:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T07:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/229413\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T07:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T07:03:07","slug":"auckland-police-arrest-man-after-allegedly-finding-him-with-fake-gun-in-city-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/229413\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland police arrest man after allegedly finding him with fake gun in city centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>12 Jan, 2026 05:40 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 arrested a 28-year-old man alleged to have had an imitation firearm in Auckland&#8217;s city centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A 28-year-old man has been arrested after police allegedly found him with a fake gun in Auckland\u2019s city centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Armed officers took a 28-year-old man into custody near the intersection of Cook and Hobson Sts about 4.45pm today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         It followed reports received by police earlier today of a man having<br \/>\n         a firearm on Great North Rd in New Lynn, before leaving the area.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Inquiries had been underway when police received information the man was on Nelson St in the central city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 12 Jan, 2026 05:40 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51330,74,7818,14466,11924,51,3952,1558,1550,2199,37483,2949,1874,3606,16718,78,5158,111,43,139,69,675,102],"class_list":{"0":"post-229413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-28yearold","9":"tag-after","10":"tag-allegedly","11":"tag-arrest","12":"tag-arrested","13":"tag-auckland","14":"tag-aucklands","15":"tag-been","16":"tag-centre","17":"tag-city","18":"tag-fake","19":"tag-finding","20":"tag-found","21":"tag-gun","22":"tag-him","23":"tag-in","24":"tag-man","25":"tag-new-zealand","26":"tag-news","27":"tag-newzealand","28":"tag-nz","29":"tag-police","30":"tag-with"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229413","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=229413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}