{"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":{"0":"post-287971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-attacked","10":"tag-auckland","11":"tag-been","12":"tag-being","13":"tag-dog","14":"tag-east","15":"tag-for","16":"tag-hospital","17":"tag-hunting","18":"tag-in","19":"tag-jumped","20":"tag-males","21":"tag-new-zealand","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-newzealand","24":"tag-nz","25":"tag-pakranga","26":"tag-park","27":"tag-people","28":"tag-person","29":"tag-police","30":"tag-taken","31":"tag-their","32":"tag-three","33":"tag-walker","34":"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}]}}