{"id":250706,"date":"2026-01-25T06:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T06:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/250706\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T06:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T06:06:09","slug":"man-arrested-after-alleged-kidnapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/250706\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after alleged kidnapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4M1RJD5_image_crop_132972\" width=\"1050\" height=\"656\" alt=\"No caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n(File photo)<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ\n<\/p>\n<p>A man has been arrested after what police describe as a kidnapping incident.<\/p>\n<p>The 29 year old was arrested after the incident unfolded in Blenheim early on Saturday morning, Inspector Simon Feltham said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On Saturday 24 January around 3am, police were called to the incident on Lakings Road,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The man is expected to due to appear in Blenheim District Court on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>As the matter was now before the courts, Feltham said police would not comment further.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero, a daily newsletter<\/a> curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(File photo) Photo: RNZ A man has been arrested after what police describe as a kidnapping incident. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-250706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250706","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=250706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}