{"id":287971,"date":"2026-02-17T07:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/287971\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T07:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:53:07","slug":"dog-walker-attacked-in-pakuranga-east-auckland-park-police-hunting-for-3-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/287971\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog walker attacked in Pak\u016branga, East Auckland park \u2013 police hunting for 3 people"},"content":{"rendered":"

St John was notified at 9.28pm and sent one rapid response unit and an ambulance.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson said the victim was taken to Middlemore Hospital in a minor condition.<\/p>\n

\"SceneScene of the assault that took place by the playground on William Roberts Road\/ Google Maps<\/p>\n

Inquiries were ongoing to identify those involved.<\/p>\n

Police were appealing for anyone with information to call 105 using reference number 260216\/2156, or provide details anonymously via Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n

The latest incident comes after violent attacks at Auckland parks in recent months.<\/p>\n

Two people were critically injured in a stabbing at Pak\u016branga Night Markets<\/a> in June last year.<\/p>\n

A 23-year-old man faced two charges of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm after having handed himself in to police the following day.<\/p>\n

In central Auckland in November, a woman alleged she was punched in the stomach while relaxing at Grey Lynn Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A post by the woman\u2019s flatmate said a week beforehand, a group of teenage boys threw water balloons at a woman reading in the park, and a carload of teenagers set off fireworks to \u201cdeliberately\u201d hit a man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St John was notified at 9.28pm and sent one rapid response unit and an ambulance. A spokesperson said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1344,51,1558,682,9219,3806,2082,2241,32655,78,17095,160138,111,43,139,69,160137,8143,384,4056,675,19554,165,1529,57698,4770],"class_list":["post-287971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-attacked","tag-auckland","tag-been","tag-being","tag-dog","tag-east","tag-for","tag-hospital","tag-hunting","tag-in","tag-jumped","tag-males","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pakranga","tag-park","tag-people","tag-person","tag-police","tag-taken","tag-their","tag-three","tag-walker","tag-walking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287971","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=287971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}