{"id":23297,"date":"2025-09-15T07:13:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/23297\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T07:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:13:13","slug":"girl-charged-after-boyfriend-knocked-out-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/23297\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl charged after boyfriend knocked out: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Dunedin teenager out on the town allegedly knocked her boyfriend out cold with a punch, attempted to kick police officers and threatened local security trying to intervene.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old and her boyfriend were in the Octagon at 1.10am yesterday when an argument erupted and she \u2018\u2018punched him a couple of times\u2019\u2019, Senior Sergeant Anthony Bond, of Dunedin, said.<\/p>\n<p>The boyfriend was knocked unconscious.<\/p>\n<p>When a security guard from a nearby nightclub \u00a0intervened, they were met with a tirade of threats from the girl.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called and they went to arrest her.<\/p>\n<p>While being placed under arrest, she allegedly kicked at the arresting officers.<\/p>\n<p>The officers were all unharmed, Snr Sgt Bond said.<\/p>\n<p>The girl was charged with assaulting police, disorderly behaviour, resisting police and assaulting a person in a family relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Arrest after &#8216;nightclub slap&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>While the incident was unfolding, a 48-year-old man \u2018\u2018slapped a female on the behind\u2019\u2019 at a nearby nightclub.<\/p>\n<p>She reported the incident to other officers also in the Octagon at the time, who arrested the man.<\/p>\n<p>The man was charged with indecent assault and was bailed to appear in Dunedin District Court at a later date.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/news\/dunedin\/mailto:laine.priestley@odt.co.nz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">laine.priestley@odt.co.nz<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Dunedin teenager out on the town allegedly knocked her boyfriend out cold with a punch, attempted to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-23297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23297","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=23297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}