{"id":26318,"date":"2025-09-16T19:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T19:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/26318\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T19:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T19:00:14","slug":"armed-offenders-squad-arrest-man-in-far-north-after-alleged-threats-with-shotgun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/26318\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed Offenders Squad arrest man in Far North after alleged threats with shotgun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because of reports the person had a firearm, the Armed Offenders Squad<\/a> was deployed, he said.<\/p>\n

A man was quickly taken into custody without incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese types of incidents can be concerning for our community. However, I would like to reassure them we take these types of reports very seriously<\/a> and will respond accordingly,\u201d Symonds said.<\/p>\n

A 34-year-old labourer from Kait\u0101ia has been charged with unlawful possession of a sawn-off shotgun, threatening to kill, speaking threateningly, possession of a knife as an offensive weapon, driving while disqualified, demanding to steal a vehicle and failing to appear in court.<\/p>\n

He appeared in Kait\u0101ia District Court on Tuesday and was remanded in custody until his next appearance on October 9.<\/p>\n

Denise Piper is a news reporter<\/a> for the Northern Advocate, focusing on health and business. She has more than 20 years in journalism and is passionate about covering stories that make a difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Because of reports the person had a firearm, the Armed Offenders Squad was deployed, he said. A man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1554,7818,7814,14466,11924,1558,1559,528,78,18839,5158,111,43,139,529,69,15222,384,20927,20928,1557,12419,26452,102],"class_list":["post-26318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-alleged","tag-allegedly","tag-armed","tag-arrest","tag-arrested","tag-been","tag-called","tag-far","tag-in","tag-kaitia","tag-man","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-offenders","tag-people","tag-sawnoff","tag-shotgun","tag-squad","tag-threatening","tag-threats","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26318","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=26318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}