{"id":243520,"date":"2026-01-21T01:36:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/243520\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T01:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:36:17","slug":"dunedin-campervan-attack-earns-woman-night-in-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/243520\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunedin campervan attack earns woman night in cells"},"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\/dunedin_central_police_station_0.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\" alt=\"Dunedin Central Police Station. Photo: ODT Files\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Dunedin Central Police Station. Photo: ODT Files<\/p>\n<p>A woman denied a ride to Balclutha by police ended up spending the night in the cells instead after allegedly attacking a nearby campervan.<\/p>\n<p>The 45-year-old showed up at the Dunedin Central Police Station at 12.30am this morning to ask for a lift back home in Balclutha, Sergeant Simon Reay, of Dunedin, said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers denied her request, and in response, the woman headed over to the nearby Woolworths carpark and began punching and kicking a campervan.<\/p>\n<p>Police headed over and arrested her for disorderly behaviour, Sgt Reay said.<\/p>\n<p>She was held in police custody overnight and was charged with breaching bail, disorderly behaviour and resisting police.<\/p>\n<p>The woman would appear in Dunedin District Court today.<\/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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dunedin Central Police Station. Photo: ODT Files A woman denied a ride to Balclutha by police ended up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-243520","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\/243520","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=243520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}