{"id":289540,"date":"2026-02-18T06:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/289540\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T06:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:48:08","slug":"68yo-man-charged-after-firearms-incident-on-aucklands-waitemata-harbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/289540\/","title":{"rendered":"68yo man charged after firearms incident on Auckland\u2019s Waitemat\u0101 Harbour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PjjNclxixstKXPGyV\" style=\"display:none\">A 68-year-old man has been charged with presenting a firearm, and was due to appear in the Wait\u0101kere District Court on February 23. <\/p>\n<p class=\"PjjNclxixstKXPGyV\" style=\"display:none\">Yesterday Inspector Peter Raynes confirmed there were no injuries following the incident, but the police Eagle helicopter was sent to scour the harbour for the launch from which the shots were fired. <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Police said an air rifle was found on the launch after it was boarded by the Armed Offenders Squad. Photo \/ NZME\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Police said an air rifle was found on the launch after it was boarded by the Armed Offenders Squad. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"PjjNclxixstKXPGyV\" style=\"display:none\">After the vessel was found, the Armed Offenders Squad was called in and transported across the harbour in one of the Police Maritime Unit\u2019s rigid-hulled inflatable boats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PjjNclxixstKXPGyV\" style=\"display:none\">The squad boarded the launch, Raynes said, where they took a man into custody without incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PjjNclxixstKXPGyV\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAn item of interest has been located on board which requires further examination,\u201d Raynes said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"PjjNclxixstKXPGyV\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 68-year-old man has been charged with presenting a firearm, and was due to appear in the Wait\u0101kere&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[160667,74,7818,9526,3952,1558,5532,13239,15226,16959,26663,71,20589,671,5158,111,43,139,69,41640,90,33170,10117,35146,114941,102],"class_list":{"0":"post-289540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-68yo","9":"tag-after","10":"tag-allegedly","11":"tag-another","12":"tag-aucklands","13":"tag-been","14":"tag-boat","15":"tag-charged","16":"tag-firearm","17":"tag-firearms","18":"tag-fired","19":"tag-from","20":"tag-harbour","21":"tag-incident","22":"tag-man","23":"tag-new-zealand","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-newzealand","26":"tag-nz","27":"tag-occupants","28":"tag-on","29":"tag-presenting","30":"tag-shot","31":"tag-vessel","32":"tag-waitemat","33":"tag-with"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289540","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=289540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}