{"id":307399,"date":"2026-03-01T03:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T03:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/307399\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T03:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T03:12:08","slug":"matangi-assault-police-hunt-trio-after-burnout-attack-near-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/307399\/","title":{"rendered":"Matangi assault: Police hunt trio after burnout attack near Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">Police call it a \u201ccowardly attack\u201d and urge anyone who recognises those responsible or has details of the dark-coloured Ford Falcon to get in contact.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Police are investigating a serious assault in Matangi. Photo \/ New Zealand Police\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Police are investigating a serious assault in Matangi. Photo \/ New Zealand Police<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">If you saw the incident or have dashcam footage of Marychurch Road around 8pm last night, please contact police.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Police are appealing for any information about this dark-coloured Ford Falcon. Photo \/ New Zealand Police\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Police are appealing for any information about this dark-coloured Ford Falcon. Photo \/ New Zealand Police<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">Contact either by phoning 105 or online by clicking Update Report and use file number 260301\/0526. <\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">You can also provide information anonymously through Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police call it a \u201ccowardly attack\u201d and urge anyone who recognises those responsible or has details of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,28654,17704,89,13019,27516,6288,5838,10937,33491,167981,3180,111,43,139,69,15222,675,1529,13082],"class_list":{"0":"post-307399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-appealing","10":"tag-assault","11":"tag-attack","12":"tag-burnout","13":"tag-cowardly","14":"tag-hamilton","15":"tag-help","16":"tag-hunt","17":"tag-identify","18":"tag-matangi","19":"tag-near","20":"tag-new-zealand","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-newzealand","23":"tag-nz","24":"tag-offenders","25":"tag-police","26":"tag-three","27":"tag-trio"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307399","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=307399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}