{"id":263776,"date":"2026-02-02T10:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T10:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/263776\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T10:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T10:55:13","slug":"masked-men-sought-after-alleged-car-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/263776\/","title":{"rendered":"Masked men sought after alleged car attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of masked men\u00a0possibly wielding tomato sauce are being hunted by Dunedin police after a crime spree involving smashed cars, food waste and broken plates.<\/p>\n<p>A 38-year-old man called police after waking up to the sounds of cars being smashed in Bay View Rd, about 4.10am yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The man also reportedly witnessed two young men wearing face coverings leaving the area, Senior Sergeant Craig Dinnissen, of Dunedin, said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We turned up and found smashed crockery all over the road.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A car was located nearby with a large amount of tomato sauce, eggs and bananas spread across the windscreen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The food items were strewn across a different car to one which was found smashed nearby, but the two could potentially be related, Snr Sgt Dinnissen said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers made enquiries around the area but no-one was located.<\/p>\n<p>Futher enquiries with regard to forensic evidence were ongoing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/news\/dunedin\/mailto:tim.scott@odt.co.nz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tim.scott@odt.co.nz<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pair of masked men\u00a0possibly wielding tomato sauce are being hunted by Dunedin police after a crime spree&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-263776","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\/263776","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=263776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}