{"id":240504,"date":"2026-01-19T03:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T03:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/240504\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T03:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T03:53:10","slug":"man-charged-after-alleged-arrowtown-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/240504\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after alleged Arrowtown assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-default\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fork_and_tap.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" alt=\"The incident was alleged to have happened outside the Fork and Tap in Arrowtown. Photo: Google Maps\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The incident was alleged to have happened outside the Fork and Tap in Arrowtown. Photo: Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>Police have charged a 27-year-old man with assault in relation to an incident in Arrowtown last month.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest comes nearly a fortnight after police asked for the public&#8217;s help to identify a man in a series of CCTV still images.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged assault, which occurred outside The Fork and Tap pub on December 21, left the victim unconscious and suffering facial injuries that required them to spend a night in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged offender was then thought to be a member of a wedding party that was held at the Arrowtown Bowls Club earlier that day.<\/p>\n<p>He is due to appear in the Invercargill District Court on January 27 on a charge of injuring with intent to injure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incident was alleged to have happened outside the Fork and Tap in Arrowtown. Photo: Google Maps Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-240504","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\/240504","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=240504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}