A woman who allegedly chased after a bus, forced her way aboard, then assaulted the driver, was arrested in Auckland last night.<\/p>\n
Officers were called to a report of a bus driver being assaulted on Queen Street in the central city after 9.40pm. <\/p>\n
Area Commander Inspector Grae Anderson said the incident unfolded after the driver passed a woman who appeared to be “acting unusually”. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis woman was refused entry but has managed to chase the bus and force her way aboard.\u201d<\/p>\n
Once on the bus, the woman allegedly attacked the driver before fleeing the scene. <\/p>\n
Police were called, and an ambulance arrived to assess the victim. <\/p>\n
On arrival, officers noticed a woman matching the alleged offender’s description standing by Vulcan Lane. <\/p>\n
\u201cOn seeing our staff, she ran off but was quickly chased down and arrested,\u201d Anderson said. <\/p>\n
The 20-year-old woman was charged with injuring with intent to injure and would appear in the Auckland District Court today.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing subjected to violence in your workplace is unacceptable, and we will continue to hold offenders accountable,\u201d Anderson said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman who allegedly chased after a bus, forced her way aboard, then assaulted the driver, was arrested…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-264845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-crime-and-justice","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264845","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=264845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}